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Kidnappers Renew Threat to Kill Reporter
Thursday, January 31, 2002
The Associated Press

It was impossible to determine whether today's e-mail was actually sent by the kidnappers. But a source close to the investigation, speaking on condition of anonymity, said today's message was sent through the same server as the one received the day before.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- AP
An e-mail sent today purportedly by the kidnappers of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl extended the deadline for killing him by one day.

The unsigned e-mail was received by Pakistani and Western media. In Washington, Secretary of State Colin Powell ruled out meeting the kidnappers' demands.

"We will give you one more day,” the message said. "If America will not meet our demands we will kill Daniel. Then this cycle will continue and no American journalist could enter Pakistan.”

The unsigned message said that unless the kidnappers' demands are met, "the Amrikans (Americans) will get what they deserve.”

An e-mail over the weekend -- the first from those claiming to hold Pearl -- demanded Pakistanis captured in fighting in Afghanistan and now held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, be returned here for trial.

Powell told reporters "we are doing everything we can” to win Pearl's release and that he had spoken with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, "and I know that he is doing everything he can.”
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