Daniel Pearl

Daniel Pearl Daniel Pearl ( October 10 , 1963 – January 29 / 30 , 2002 ) was a journalist, an American - Israeli dual citizen. He was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi , Pakistan , while investigating the case of convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid .

Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered by Militant Islamic terrorists . At the time of his kidnapping , Pearl served as the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal , and was based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India . He went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between Richard Reid (the "shoe bomber") and Al-Qaeda . He was subsequently beheaded by his captors. In July 2002, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh , a British national of Pakistani origin , was sentenced to death by hanging for Pearl's abduction and murder. In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba , Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said that he had personally beheaded Pearl. [1] "Al-Qaida No. 3 says he planned 9/11, other plots" , MSNBC , March 15, 2007 Katherine Shrader (March 15, 2007).

Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was a journalist with American and Israeli citizenship. He was kidnapped by Pakistani militants and later murdered in Pakistan . Pearl was kidnapped while working as the South Asia Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal , based in Mumbai , India . He had gone to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between Richard Reid (the "shoe bomber") and Al-Qaeda. He was subsequently killed by his captors. In July 2002, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh , a British national of Pakistani origin , was sentenced to death by hanging for Pearl's abduction and murder. In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantánamo Bay , Cuba , Khalid Sheikh Mohammed stated that he had personally beheaded Pearl. Al-Qaeda member Saif al-Adel has also been connected with the kidnapping.

American journalist beheaded by militants in Pakistan (1963–2002) For other people named Daniel Pearl, see Daniel Pearl (disambiguation) . Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American journalist who worked for The Wall Street Journal . On January 23, 2002, he was kidnapped by jihadist militants while he was on his way to what he had expected would be an interview with Pakistani Islamic scholar Mubarak Ali Gilani in Karachi , Sindh. Pearl had moved to Mumbai , India, upon taking up a regional posting by his newspaper and later entered Pakistan to cover the war on terror , which was launched by the United States in response to the September 11 attacks in 2001. At the time of his abduction, he had been investigating the alleged links between British citizen Richard Reid (or the " Shoe Bomber ") and al-Qaeda ; Reid had reportedly completed his training at a facility owned by Gilani, who had been accused by the United States of being affiliated with the Pakistani terrorist organization Jamaat ul-Fuqra . A few days after his disappearance, Pearl's captors released a video in which he is recorded condemning American foreign policy and repeatedly telling the camera that he and his family are Jewish and have visited Israel , following which his throat is slit and his head severed from his body. Before killing Pearl, the captors had issued an ultimatum to the United States government , namely including the demands that all Pakistani terrorists be freed from American prisons and that the United States move forward with a halted shipment of F-16s for the Pakistani government. Gilani refuted allegations of involvement with Jamaat ul-Fuqra and Pearl's killing. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh , a British citizen of Pakistani origin, was arrested by Pakistani authorities and sentenced to death in July 2002 for the execution, but his conviction was overturned by a Pakistani court in 2020. Sheikh had previously been arrested by Indian authorities for his involvement in the 1994 kidnappings of Western tourists in India , and is also an affiliate of Jaish-e-Mohammed and al-Qaeda, among other armed jihadist organizations.