Posted on 05/19/2002 10:08:12 AM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
An unidentified official from the U.S. government, left, arrives at the location where U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl alegedly had been held, Friday, May 17, 2002 near Karachi, Pakistan. Police believe that Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was held there for two or three days, before being killed. Pearl, who was on assignment in Karachi, was kidnapped and killed by extremists. Man in white unidentified. (AP Photo/Athar Hussain)
KARACHI, May 19 (PNS): Forensic tests have confirmed that human remains found here were of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
The final genetic test would be conducted to positively confirm the results.
The skeleton of Pearl's dead body was recovered by Pakistani authorities from a compound of a nursery in the southern part of the city, Gulshan-e-Maemar, whose head was separated from the rest of the body.
According to the police, a button from Daniel Pearl shirt was also recovered from the compound and the teeth resemble that of Daniel Pearl.
Police officers look as workers pour dirt in a burial place Friday, May 17, 2002 near Karachi, Pakistan. A dismembered body authorities believe to be that of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was removed Friday from the shallow grave on property owned by a group identified as a terrorist organization by the United States. Blood and hair samples were sent for DNA testing to confirm whether it was Pearl's body.(AP Photo)
The police also said that they discovered a room in the nursery, which was shown in the videotape showing the slaying of Pearl as well as rope, and a chaddar (shawl), which was used in tying the slain journalist.
Medical experts search the site inside a walled nursery in Gaddap, 30 km (18.6 miles) from Karachi, May 17, 2002 where police dug up a torso and severed head believed to belong to murdered U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl. An investigator who helped dig up the grave, which was near the town of Gaddap, said the body was lying on its back and the head had been placed in an upright position, balanced on the base of the neck. REUTERS/Zahid Hussein
Investigators seal the remains of who investigators believe to be U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl in a shed near Karachi, Pakistan Friday May 17, 2002. Police believe Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was held for "two or three days," before being killed in this single-room shed. Pearl, who was on assignment in Karachi, was kidnapped and killed. (AP Photo/Athar Hussain)
Denial Pearl was kidnapped on Jan. 23, and a gruesome three-minute video was delivered to U.S. officials in Karachi a month later showing Pearl's brutal death.
He was researching Pakistani extremists and their possible links to Richard Reid, who was arrested in December on a flight from Paris to Miami with explosives in his shoes.
After his disappearance, e-mails with photos of a captive Pearl were sent to foreign and local news publications.
They were signed by a previously unknown group demanding better treatment for the suspected Taliban and al-Qaida men being held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.
US spy agency Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigators traced the e-mails to one of the four men on trial, Fahad Naseem, who in turn identified Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, as the mastermind.
Naseem's cousin, Salman Saqib, and former policeman Sheikh Mohammed Adeel are also on trial.
The trial of the prime suspect in Pearl murder Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three of his accomplices is being held in an anti terrorism court established at the central prison in Hyderabad, a major city of the Sindh province.
Prosecution witnesses record statements in Pearl case
HYDERABAD, May 19 (PNS): In the continued marathon proceeding of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl case three prosecution witnesses Saturday recorded their statements in the Special anti-Terrorism Court on Saturday.
Col Usman of Mobilink said, " Pearl used to use a phone allotted in the name of Shafi Muhammad of Mardan. Neither it is on our record nor that is transferred to any body else".
Prosecution advocate Rai Bashir came with two reports. He said, "one report bears 14 numbers up-to March 13, 2002 and other has only three numbers till March 16, 2002."
"We have investigated about each number", said Rai adding, "culprit can be from any walk of life."
To this Col. Usman said, " I am from Army." Rai said, " We hold army in high esteem. And army must be custodian and preacher of truth and veracity.'
In the coming proceeding John Bennet of Islamabad will be called for investigation.
Ends
And from AP:
Lawyer: Pearl Suspect Issues Denial
HYDERABAD, Pakistan- The chief suspect in the slaying of Daniel Pearl denied any connection to a body found in Karachi this week and believed to be that of the Wall Street Journal reporter, a defense attorney said Sunday.
British-born militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh said he and his three co-defendants, charged with the kidnapping and murder of Pearl, "have nothing to do with all that," attorney Rai Bashir said Saeed told him in a private message he received Saturday.
Bashir said that Saeed also denied that he has ties to Lashkar-e-Janghvi, an Islamic militant group linked to al-Qaida. Three suspected members of the group led police to the body earlier this week, according to the state-run Pakistan Television. The suspects remain in police custody.
"I do not belong to Lashkar-e-Janghvi. I'm a jihadi (holy warrior)," Bashir quoted Saeed as saying. Members of Lashkar-e-Janghvi are thought to have taken refuge in Afghanistan during the Taliban's rule there, and the group was banned by Pakistan earlier this year.
Pearl, an American and the Journal's South Asia bureau chief, disappeared four months ago in the restive port city of Karachi while researching a connection between Pakistani militants and Richard C. Reid, who was arrested in December on a flight from Paris to Miami with explosives in his shoes.
Perhaps THAT is why the terrorists REALLY killed him. The articles leave a few things out, or I missed them somehow:
Yes, the terrorists DID demand "better treatment for prisoners at Gitmo"...at first.
THEN they demanded the release of all Pakistani nationals held prisoners held there.
THEN they demanded money. Oh...they also alleged that Pearl was a Moussad agent.
All of three demands, which were heard once each from the terrorists, then dropped in favor of each of the others, pointed to the fact that their reason for kidnapping and murdering Daniel Pearl had nothing to do with any of the above.
NECO EOS OMNES, DEUS SUUS AGNOSCET!!!
Wouldn't that be something if he was trying to get a huge story on American Black Terrorists becoming Bin Laden cohorts?
Here's to Danny Pearl!
Long live Freedom of the Press!
May he rest in peace.
My prayers are with the Pearl family, especially for his widow. At least there will finally be some closure.
His suggestion that anyone questioning the President on the War has to worry about burning tires being placed around their necks was another loathsome attack on the honor and decency of most Americans who know all too well just who the enemy is........THE MEDIA ELITE
I, for one, am not too picky about the order, either.
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