Daniel Pearl was Murdered while doing his job
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He was subsequently murdered by beheading on February 1, 2002 at the age of 38.
I recall my outrage but was still reeling from the recent passing of my biological father and really was not able to devote the thought and study to his situation that I normally might engage.
Daniel Pearl was born on October 10, 1963 and passed in a horrid fashion at the hands of Pakistani terrorists on February 1, 2002.
He was was the South Asia Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, based in Mumbai, India.
He was kidnapped while investigating the links between Al-Qaeda and Richard Reid, the dullard British citizen and alleged 'shoe bomber'.
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a Pakistani British citizen, was sentenced to death by hanging for Pearl's abduction and murder in 2002 but his conviction was overturned by a Pakistani court in the summer of 2020.
In March 2007 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a member of Al-Qaeda, claimed that he had personally beheaded Pearl during interrogation at a closed military hearing in Guantanamo Bay.
Investigators have also connected one Saif al-Adel, an Al-Qaeda member with the kidnapping.