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Daniel Pearl, Father of a Son Who Will Never Know Him
Saturday, February 23, 2002
(11:00)
By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.RU

The US justice department is planning to extradite this criminal from Pakistan, as detectives hunt down the other kidnappers, some of whom Sheikh has already named.

The barbarous murder of the Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl has shocked the world.

The mastermind behind the kidnapping and subsequent murder of Daniel Pearl appears to be the 27-year-old British-born Moslem fanatic Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh. Arrested in Lahore two weeks ago after turning himself in, he has given contradictory evidence of the run of events since the kidnapping of Mr. Pearl on January 23rd, when he was preparing to investigate the activities of a fundamentalist Islamist group in Pakistan and its ties with the British shoe bomber, Richard Reid, arrested after trying to blow up explosives in his shoes while on an American Airlines aircraft.

First, he claimed that Mr. Pearl was alive but then said he had been killed because the ransom he had asked for had not been paid. Now there is no doubt. The videotape sent to the US Consulate in Karachi shows Mr. Pearl being stabbed to death and then beheaded.
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