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U.S. State Department says
kidnapped reporter is dead
By Juan 0. Tamayo
Knight Ridder Newspapers
(KRT) Daniel Pearl, the Wall
Street Journal correspondent kid
napped in Pakistan last month as
he investigated radical Muslims’
links to international terrorist
groups, is dead, the U.S. State De
partment said Thursday.
The U.S. Embassy in the Pak
istani capital of Islamabad “has
confirmed today that they have
received evidence that ... Pearl is
dead,” said State Department
spokesman Richard Boucher.
Boucher gave no details but
The Associated Press quoted two
U.S. officials as saying the FBI
had received a video showing
Pearl’s body. Pakistani media
have reported he was killed dur
ing an escape attempt Jan. 31.
Pearl, a 38-year-old native of
Princeton, N.J., became the ninth
journalist killed while covering
the U.S. war on terrorism. The
others died in Afghanistan.
Pearl’s wife, Mariane, is six
months pregnant with the cou
ple’s first child.
The publisher of The Wall
Street Journal, Peter Kann, said
Pearl’s murder “is an act of bar
barism that makes a mockery of
everything Danny’s kidnappers
claimed to believe in. They
claimed to be Pakistani national
ists, but their actions must surely
bring shame on all true Pakistani
patriots.”
From Beijing, President Bush
said: “Laura and I and the Ameri
can people are deeply saddened
to learn about the loss of Daniel
Pearl’s life. We are really sad for
his wife and his parents and his
friends and colleagues who have
been clinging to hopes for weeks
that he would be found alive.”
In Washington, Attorney Gen
eral John Ashcroft extended his
“heartfelt thoughts and prayers”
to Pearl’s family.
“Daniel Pearl’s murder serves
as a stark reminder that the face
r
of terrorism is brutal and cruel,”
Ashcroft said in a prepared state
ment.
“Daniel Pearl devoted his life
to thd noble pursuit of informing
our free and open society. He
paid the ultimate sacrifice for his
commitment to that freedom.”
He pledged to “bring to justice
terrorists who kill innocent
Americans.”
Boucher, at State, called the
murder “an outrage” and said the
U.S. and Pakistani governments
“remain committed to identifying
all the perpetrators of this crime
and bringing them to justice.”
Apparently addressing specu
lation that Pakistan’s Inter Ser
vice Intelligence agency, long
supportive of radical Muslims,
had been less than helpful in in
vestigating the kidnapping,
Boucher added that Pakistani au
thorities “made every effort to lo
cate and free Mr. Pearl.”
A Stanford University gradu
ate, Pearl joined the financial dai
ly 12 years ago and reported from
Washington, London and Paris
before he was named South Asia
correspondent last year, based in
the Indian city of Bombay.
Pakistani security officials and
media reports said he ran into
trouble when he started rooting
around the Pakistani port city of
Karachi for possible links between
radical Muslims and Richard Reid,
accused of trying to detonate a
bomb in his sneakers on a Paris
Miami flight in December.
In early January, Pearl met at
the Akbar International Hotel in
Islamabad’s twin city of
Rawalpindi with a man who
called himself Bashir Ahmad
Shabbir, but who was probably
Sheikh Omar Saeed, a British
born radical who studied at the
London School of Economics and
has a record of perpetrating polit
ically motivated violence.
Saeed spent five years in an In
dian prison for kidnapping one
American and three Britons for
11 days in 1994 in a bid to force
New Delhi to release an impris
oned leader of Mohammed’s
Army, a Pakistani group fighting
Indian rule over disputed Kash
mir. Saeed was freed in 1999 after
supporters hijacked an Indian jet
liner to Afghanistan and threat
ened to kill its 155 passengers.
“Shabbir” communicated with
Pearl by telephone and e-mail for
several days, then told him to
meet with another man, Imtiaz
Sidiqque, on Jan. 23 at a restau
rant in Karachi. It was a trap.
Pearl called his wife after the
meeting to say he would be home
by 7 p.m. It would be the last
time that the French-born daugh
ter of a Dutch father and Cuban
mother would hear from him.
Four days later, e-mails from
“kidnapperguy” announced he
had been abducted and included
photographs of Pearl, an automat
ic pistol just inches from his
head. Two days later, another e
mail with two more photos
branded Pearl a CIA spy and
threatened to kill him unless the
United States freed all Pakistani
suspects held at the Guantanamo
Navy base, delivered F-16 jets to
Pakistan and released
Afghanistan’s former Taliban am
bassador to Islamabad.
But Pakistani police were mak
ing progress in the investigation,
sometimes using sophisticated
techniques to track down the
source of the e-mails, sometimes
with harsh measures such as jail
ing a suspect’s wife and children
until the suspect surrendered.
On Feb. 5, police arrested three
Mohammed’s Army members
who admitted to sending the ran
som e-mails from Internet cafes in
Karachi, a city of 14 million on
the Arabian Sea.
©2002, The Miami Herald. Distributed by
Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.
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