Daniel Pearl Murder Investigation Finds Many Involved Escaped Justice

The Center for Public Integrity:

A three-year investigation into the 2002 kidnapping and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl has identified 27 Pakistanis that played a role - most of whom have escaped justice.

The investigation found that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the architects of the 9/11 attacks, was the man who killed the Wall Street Journal Reporter. It states that Pakistani authorities, in their haste to close the case, knowingly used perjured testimony to pin blame for the act of murder on Omar Sheikh and his three co-conspirators.

Read the whole story: The Center for Public Integrity

Comments

[-PZ-]

04:08 AM on 01/22/2011

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41020748/displaymode/1283/for/facebookvideo

What happened to Daniel Pearl was criminal. However why do we not hear about this guy?

Well no one knows the story of Saud Memon (A father of 5).

This guy had the bad luck to own the land where daniel pearl's body was dumped. He disappeare­d one day and then was dumped on a garbage heap near his home 4 years later.

He had no memory, could not speak, could not recognize his family and weighed only 18 kgs. He died 18-20 days later. There were some Pakistani officials who said that he was being held at Bagram.

Similar stories as Afia Siddiqui.

http://new­s.bbc.co.u­k/2/hi/ame­ricas/6671­067.stm

[wm1066]

12:09 PM on 01/21/2011

Why can't I see a "reply" on this site? Some people are able to reply to a comment but I don't see how. For that matter in the last week my replys have only been showing up about half the time and then sometimes it has taken 24 hours.

[wm1066]

12:32 PM on 01/21/2011

Okay, so if I go to my own comment section and click onto my comment I can reply to it!

[greg abbott]

09:53 AM on 01/21/2011

Daniel Pearl held both Israeli and American dual citizenship. (This has been reported in mainstream news as well as corroborated by his own father)

Traveling thru Pakistan as an American reporter and poking into Pakistani nuclear safeguards which is obviously information which might have 'dual use' - oh say if the Americans or Israelis wanted to bomb the storage facilities or take them over with Special Forces if Pakistani dictators stopped colluding with the Americans, is information which is obviously a top priority for both the CIA and Mossad.

If Daniel Pearl was not approached by Mossad or the CIA then recruiters at either institution should be fired for negiligence - if Pearl was not actually already a Mossad or CIA spy.

[greg abbott]

10:08 AM on 01/21/2011

How long would an undercover ISI Pakistani intelligence officier have lasted poking around Dimona?- if he ever was even allowed to make it into Israel without getting arrested

[oktober]

09:12 AM on 01/21/2011

I just took a quick glance at the PDF and there isn't one reference listed. Not one. How do you write an 86 page report with no references to FBI, CIA, or outside source information. Perhaps I should just read it in its entirety.

[courtb]

09:02 AM on 01/21/2011

This is off topic - but doesn't anyone know why the comment section is set up this way, where you can only "post questions"?

[leftheaded]

07:18 AM on 01/21/2011

I never believed the story about who actually did it. KSM was water boarded into admitting this, as well as 9/11. The truth about the perpetrators of each event is still unknown.

[Pundit Commentator]

02:13 AM on 01/21/2011

I can't bring myself to read this story given the headline. I followed the story. I saw the movie. I am too emotional about this case. I will tear up before the first sentence is read.

[Sans Octavian]

01:17 AM on 01/21/2011

What happened to Mr. Pearl horrible, cruel and in the name of Islam,

[lovbug]

12:48 AM on 01/21/2011

I'm still angry behind this cruel act. RIP Daniel Pearl.

[MikeyJaii]

10:58 PM on 01/20/2011

I don't get why they go into a country whom we attack and are against. And firstly unarmed and no self defense training go into the country and expect not to be mugged.

[courtb]

09:13 AM on 01/21/2011

Did not mean to "favorite" this...tried to reply and too late realized there isn't a reply button.

First of all, Pakistan is technically an ally. Drone attacks started 2 years after Daniel Pearl's murder (2002, even before the Iraq War). And please, this was not a mugging gone wrong...unless in your head, "mugged" means kidnapped and beheaded.

[littlebrowngirl]

10:56 PM on 01/20/2011

Very poor taste to bring this up and show this photo again.

[MIKEinNYC]

10:03 PM on 01/20/2011

Isn't Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the guy we water-boarded 180 times?

[adamben]

09:18 PM on 01/20/2011

not sure why i can't reply to a comment, but marknez, the mujahadeen and taliban are two completely different groups. the mujahadeen are the fighters who kicked the soviets out of afghanistan and then set themselves up in little fiefdoms and, not all, but many established little mini criminal states. the taliban emerged from the madrasses of kandahar, pashtuns, and overthrew the corrupt mujahadeen, with the people of afghanistan cheering them on because they preferred a religious state to a lawless state; at least that was what they were hoping would occur. the only people who held out where the non-pashtun mujahadeen, in the north (tajiks, uzbeks, shiites hazzaras...etc). it was the main leader, massoud, was assasinated by al quada two days before 911. then the us pushed the taliban out and some mujahadeen joined karzai's govt and some, who joined the taliban before the us invasion, retreated to pakistan, while others switched away from the taliban and also joined karzai. so, the two are not the same even though some of the warlords switch back and forth.

[Mr Shens]

08:25 PM on 01/20/2011

@tallen: Wrong, it is a monument to the cruelty of corrupt individuals trying to further their own agendas--not Islam. The narrative of this story, as told by the perpetrators, is proof that they watched too many gangster-heist movies and wrongly equated brutality and the length of their beards with piety.

Further, the mutilation of Pearl's body, as the story suggests, is evidence of the fact that these criminals were motivated by their own subjective political goals and not a desire to defend Islam. If they had even the most trivial understanding of Islam, they would know that it is strictly prohibited to kill in cold blood or mutilate the body. I'm sorry, but there is no such thing as, "Well, I guess we should kill this guy...I don't know. Sure, why not?" in Islam.

I'm sure future commentators will try to refute those prohibitions with some generalizations and out-of-context quotes and passages, but the truth is that such wanton destruction of and disregard for human life is completely antithetical to Islam.

[IvanPomidorov]

08:15 PM on 01/20/2011

Jew in Pakistan? Not smart.