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Breaking NewsDaniel Pearl's widow sues terrorists By TOM HAYS THE ASSOCIATED PRESSWednesday, July 18th 2007, 2:36 PM A lawsuit filed in Brooklyn federal court today by Marianne Pearl (above) seeks unspecified damages for acts it alleges were meant to 'emotionally destroy the Pearl family.' The widow of Daniel Pearl has sued more than a dozen reputed terrorists and Pakistan's largest bank, blaming them for the torture and murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter in 2002.A complaint filed Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court by Mariane Pearl and her husband's estate alleges Habib Bank Limited of Karachi knowingly provided financial...

The widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl is said to have found love again with a married CNN executive who oversaw the network's coverage of her husband's kidnapping by terrorists.Mariane Pearl has been quietly seeing CNN executive vice president Eason Jordan, sources told The Washington Post. The Atlanta-based Jordan, 43, has been married for 16 years and has two children. His wife, Susan Jordan, said, "I have absolutely no comment." CNN reps would neither confirm nor deny an affair. Eason "will not comment," spokeswoman Christa Robinson told us. "The company doesn't comment on the personal matters of...

Eason Jordan, a CNN news exec who was deeply involved in the network's coverage of the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl, is now romantically involved with Pearl's widow, Mariane, people familiar with the relationship told us yesterday. As reports of the relationship swirled through CNN and other news circles, Jordan declined to comment and Pearl did not respond to our inquiries. Married for 16 years, with two children, the Atlanta-based Jordan, 43, got to know Pearl, 36, who now lives in New York, after Islamic terrorists killed her husband in Pakistan two years ago. Colleagues...

<p>Tuesday, March 19 -- An hour with Mariane Pearl, widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Mariane, a French freelance journalist, married Daniel Pearl in August 1999 and is expecting the couple's first child in May. Her husband, the Southeast Asia bureau chief for The Journal, was kidnapped and killed while on assignment in Pakistan.</p>