Four years ago today, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped by militants in Karachi, Pakistan on his way to interview a terrorist leader.
The group claimed that Pearl was a CIA agent and photos of him handcuffed with a gun to his head were circulated. Despite pleas from Journal editors and his wife, Mariane, who was pregnant with their first child, Pearl was decapitated on February 1, 2002, his body cut into pieces and buried in a shallow grave on the outskirts of Karachi, where it was later found.
It is incidental that Pearl’s abductors were not in the mainstream of the Islamic jihad against the West then so very much on people’s minds because of the 9/11 attacks three and a half months earlier. Pearl had gone to Pakistan to investigate links between “shoe bomber” Richard Reid, who had been arrested aboard a U.S.-bound jetliner a month earlier, Al Qaeda and the all-powerful ISI – Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence and Military Intelligence unit.
Danny Pearl was on the right trail.
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