https://www.timesofisrael.com/pakistan-overturns-death-sentence-for-briton-convicted-over-daniel-pearl-murder/
A Pakistani court Thursday overturned the murder conviction of a
British Pakistani man found guilty of the 2002 kidnapping and murder of
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Instead, the court found Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh guilty of the
lesser charge of kidnapping and sentenced him to seven years in prison.
In January 2011, a report released by the Pearl Project at Georgetown
University following an investigation into his death made chilling
revelations, claiming that the wrong men were convicted for Pearl’s
murder.
The investigation, led by Pearl’s friend and former Wall Street
Journal colleague Asra Nomani and a Georgetown University professor,
claimed the reporter was murdered by Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the alleged
mastermind of the September 11 2001 attacks, not Sheikh.
So what. Let's remember why Daniel Pearl was in Pakistan in the first place - to write a sympathetic piece on the Taliban, good liberal Jews that he was. He never expected that the people he was trying to support would only see "dirty Jew" when they looked at him.
ReplyDeletePearl was working as the South Asia Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, based in Mumbai, India. He was kidnapped when he went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between British citizen Richard Reid (known as the "shoe bomber") and Al-Qaeda. Pearl was killed by his captors.[4][5]
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