Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl
Born	October 10, 1963(1963-10-10) Princeton, New Jersey
Died	February 1, 2002 (aged 38) Karachi, Pakistan
Occupation	Journalist
Spouse	Mariane Pearl

Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan. Events 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. See also Princeton Township New Jersey, Borough of Princeton New Jersey Princeton Borough New Jersey Princeton Township New Jersey this Events 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. (ڪراچي) is the largest city in Pakistan. It is the world's second largest city proper behind Mumbai in terms of population which exceeds 10 million Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl (born July 23, 1967) is a French Freelance Journalist and a Reporter and Columnist Events 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends (ڪراچي) is the largest city in Pakistan. It is the world's second largest city proper behind Mumbai in terms of population which exceeds 10 million Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl served as the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, stationed in Bombay, India, and had been investigating the case of Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, and alleged links between Al Qaeda and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), for which he went to Pakistan, and was subsequently beheaded there. Mumbai ( Marathi:,, IPA: formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the financial Background A British citizen born in Bromley, South London and educated at Thomas Tallis School in Kidbrooke, London Al-Qaeda, alternatively spelled al-Qaida, al-Qa`ida or al-Qa`idah, ( Arabic:; ar-Latn ''al-qāʿidah'' Translation: The History After independence in 1947 two new intelligence agencies were created in Pakistan called the Intelligence Bureau (IB and Military Intelligence ^[1][2]

In July 2002, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British national of Pakistani origin was sentenced to death by hanging for Pearl's abduction and murder. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh ( احمد عمر سعید شیخ) (sometimes known as Umar Sheikh, Sheikh Omar, Sheik Syed, or by the alias "Mustafa ^[3][4]

In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said that he had personally beheaded Pearl. The Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp is a controversial United States Detention center operated by Joint Task Force Guantanamo since 2002 in Guantanamo Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ( خالد شيخ محمد; also transliterated as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and additionally known by at least fifty aliases Decapitation (from Latin, caput, capitis, meaning head or beheading, is the cutting off of the head of a person or animal ^[5][6]

Early Life

Daniel Pearl was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and grew up in the Encino district of Los Angeles, California, where he attended Portola Middle School and Birmingham High School. See also Princeton Township New Jersey, Borough of Princeton New Jersey Princeton Borough New Jersey Princeton Township New Jersey this Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Portola Middle School is a middle school located in Tarzana California in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. Birmingham High School is a public Coeducational High school in the neighborhood/district of Lake Balboa in the San Fernando Valley section of His father, Judea Pearl, is a professor at UCLA. Judea Pearl is a Computer scientist and Philosopher, best known for developing the probabilistic approach to Artificial intelligence, in The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United His mother Ruth, is of Iraqi Jewish descent. Iraqi Jews are Jews born in Iraq or of Iraqi heritage The history of the Jews in Iraq is documented from the time of the Babylonian captivity c The history of the family and its connections to Israel are described by Judea Pearl in a book by Alan Dershowitz, What Israel means to me. ^[7] Danny, as he was known throughout his life, attended Stanford University from 1981 to 1985, where he stood out as a communications major with Phi Beta Kappa honors, a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, and co-founded a student newspaper called the Stanford Commentator. Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an academic Honor society with the mission of "fostering and recognizing excellence" in the Undergraduate Liberal arts The Split Since the 1992 split the Fraternity and the Society are completely separate and independent legal entities with separate governing bodies and are not separate or parallel Pearl graduated Stanford with a B.A. in Communications, after which he spent a summer as a Pulliam Fellow intern at the Indianapolis Star and a winter bussing tables as a ski bum in Idaho. The State of Idaho ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. Following a trip to the then-Soviet Union, China, and Europe, he joined the North Adams Transcript and the Berkshire Eagle in western Massachusetts, then moved on to the San Francisco Business Times. The North Adams Transcript is a six-day Daily newspaper published Monday through Saturday in North Adams Massachusetts. The Berkshire Eagle is a daily newspaper published in Pittsfield Massachusetts and covering all of Berkshire County Massachusetts, as well as four

Pearl began at the Wall Street Journal's Atlanta bureau in 1990, moving to the Washington, D. C. , bureau in 1993 to cover telecommunications. He jumped to the Journal's London bureau in 1996, writing articles such as the October 1994 story of a Stradivarius violin allegedly found on a highway on-ramp^[8], and a June 2000 story about Iranian pop music. A Stradivarius is a Stringed instrument built by members of the Stradivari family particularly Antonio Stradivari. His most notable investigations covered the ethnic wars in the Balkans, where he discovered that charges of one alleged genocide committed in Kosovo were unsubstantiated, and the American missile attack on a supposed military facility in Khartoum, which he proved to be a pharmaceutical factory. Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction in whole or in part of an ethnic racial religious or national group Khartoum ( الخرطوم al-Kharṭūm) is the Capital of Sudan and of Khartoum State.

Later, he met and married Mariane Van Neyenhoff. Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl (born July 23, 1967) is a French Freelance Journalist and a Reporter and Columnist Their son, Adam Daniel Pearl, was born in Paris on May 28, 2002, three months after Pearl's death. Events 585 BC - A Solar eclipse occurs as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Murder

On January 23, 2002, on his way to what he thought was an interview with Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani at the Village restaurant in Karachi, Pearl was kidnapped by a militant group calling itself The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty. Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani ( Mubrik Ali Shah Jilani) is a Hanafi Sufi cleric from Pakistan and founder of the Muslims of the Americas This group claimed Pearl was a CIA agent and — using a hotmail e-mail address ^[9] — sent the United States a range of demands, including the freeing of all Pakistani terror detainees, and the release of a halted U. near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all The War on Terrorism (also known as the War on Terror) is the common term for the military political and legal, and ideological conflict and specifically for U S. shipment of F-16 fighter jets to the Pakistani government.

The message read:

Photos of Pearl handcuffed with a gun at his head and holding up a newspaper were attached. There was no response to pleas from Pearl's editor, nor from his wife Mariane.

Nine days later, Pearl was murdered and beheaded: the cause of death was obvious by inspection or from the subsequent video (see below). Pearl's body was found cut into ten pieces and buried in a shallow grave in the outskirts of Karachi on May 16. When the police found his remains, Abdul Sattar Edhi arrived promptly on the scene, personally collected all ten body parts, and took them to the morgue. Abdul Sattar Edhi, NI ( Urdu: عبد الستار ایدھی) or Edhi, as he is often known is one of the most active philanthropists Pearl's body was returned to the United States and was interred in the Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Mount Sinai Memorial Park is a Jewish Cemetery located at 5950 Forest Lawn Drive in Los Angeles California.

No autopsy was needed or performed. An autopsy, also known as a post-mortem examination, necropsy, or obduction, is a Medical procedure that consists of a thorough Examination The subsequent video (see next section) made the sequence of events clear. Years later, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed confessed to cutting off Pearl's head, but didn't state whether he had cut his throat: it is likely that one person did both. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ( خالد شيخ محمد; also transliterated as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and additionally known by at least fifty aliases

The Daniel Pearl video

Daniel Pearl stating his identity in the video produced by his murderers.

On February 21, 2002, a videotape titled The Slaughter of the Spy-Journalist, the Jew Daniel Pearl, was released. Events 362 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria. 1245 - Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. The video shows Pearl's mutilated body and lasts three minutes and thirty-six seconds.

On the image to the right, the text in Arabic reads: My name is (Daniel Pearl), I am a Jewish-American. . . The English transcript of the text reads ^[sic] :

• "My name is Daniel Pearl. Sic is a Latin word meaning "thus" "so" "as such" or "just as that" I am a Jewish American from Encino, California USA. "
• "I come from, uh, on my father's side the family is Zionist. History of Zionism|Timeline of Zionism|World Zionist Organization|Zionist political violence Zionism is an international political movement that originally supported the "
• "My father's Jewish, my mother's Jewish, I'm Jewish. "
• "My family follows Judaism. We've made numerous family visits to Israel. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. "
• "Back in the town of Bnei Brak there is a street named after my great grandfather Chaim Pearl who is one of the founders of the town. Bnei Brak (or Bene Beraq) (בְּנֵי בְּרַק Bəne Bəraq) is a city located on Israel 's central Mediterranean coastal plain "

According to Pearl's father, the fact revealed in the last sentence was not known outside the immediate family and, therefore, could not have been extracted from him by force. Pearl's father believes that his son chose to reveal it as a coded message to his family, that he was doing well and speaking freely in his own words. ^[10]

The second part of the video shows Pearl stating his captors' demands. A caption in Urdu is shown along the way. Urdu ( ur '''{{Nastaliq اردو}}''' trans Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is a Central Indo-Aryan language Urdu is a standardised Pictures of dead Pakistanies and similar scenes are superimposed around the image of Pearl. Other images shown are those of United States President George W. Bush shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and those of Palestinian boy Muhammad al-Dura, of whose death the IDF has been accused. George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. (אריאל Muhammad Jamal al-Durrah (1988-2000 محمد جمال الدرة was a Palestinian boy reported to have been killed by gunfire from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF

Published reports say that a technical error prevents the first slashing of Pearl's throat from being captured on film. In the video, Pearl's body is shown naked from the waist up with his throat slit at about 1 minute and 55 seconds into the video, by which time he would have bled to death. A man then cuts his head off. A few more images, such as captives held at Guantánamo Bay detention camp, are shown near the image of Pearl's head. The Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp is a controversial United States Detention center operated by Joint Task Force Guantanamo since 2002 in Guantanamo The last 90 seconds of the video show the list of demands scrolling, superimposed on an image of Pearl's severed head being held by the hair.

The English transcript of the text reads ^[sic] :

NATIONAL MOVEMENT FOR THE RESTORATION OF PAKISTAN SOVEREIGNTY (NMRPS)

We still demand the following:

• The immediate release of U.S. held prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Sic is a Latin word meaning "thus" "so" "as such" or "just as that" Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

• The return of Pakistani prisoners to Pakistan.

• The immediate end of U. S. presence in Pakistan.

• The delivery of F-16 planes that Pakistan had paid for and never received.

We assure Americans that they shall never be safe on the Muslim Land of Pakistan. A Muslim (مسلم pronounced Muslim, not Muzlim) is an adherent of the Religion

And if our demands are not met this scene shall be repeated again and again. . .

The video made its way to the Pakistani and United States governments. Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and A jihadist site leaked the video onto the Internet. A Mujahid (Arabic ar مجاهد, literally "struggler" is a Muslim involved in a Jihad, id est fighting in a war or In April 2002, Dan Rather reported on CBS TV that the video was used extensively as a recruiting tool by jihadis in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather Jr (born October 31, 1931) is a journalist and former news anchor for the CBS Evening News

Arrests

Three suspects were caught after the IP address of those who sent the ransom e-mail was traced by the Karachi Police. An Internet Protocol ( IP) address is a numerical identification ( Logical address) that is assigned to devices participating in a Computer network The arrests were carried out after investigation by Pakistani detective Mir Zubair Mahmood, assisted by Pakistan CIA computer experts. ^[11] The mastermind of the kidnapping, Ahmed Saeed Omar Sheikh, surrendered to a former ISI officer, Brig Aijaz Shah, who concealed Sheikh's whereabout from the Karachi Police for a whole week.

His father worried at the time that Pearl's Israeli citizenship would have an adverse effect on the investigation. ^[12] On March 21, 2002, in Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other suspects were charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl. Events 630 - Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh ( احمد عمر سعید شیخ) (sometimes known as Umar Sheikh, Sheikh Omar, Sheik Syed, or by the alias "Mustafa They were convicted on July 15, 2002, and Sheikh was sentenced to death. Events 1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. During the trial, Sheikh, the mastermind of the kidnapping, told investigators that he had kidnapped Pearl to "strike a blow at the United States and embarrass the Pakistani government. " Another of the suspects said Pearl had been targeted "because he was a Jew working against Islam. " Sheikh has appealed the sentence, but hearings in his case were postponed repeatedly — over 30 times — and no definitive date has been set.

On March 10, 2007, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, an alleged Al Qaeda operative reported to be third in command under Osama Bin Laden, claimed responsibility, before his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, for the murder of Daniel Pearl. Events 241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ( خالد شيخ محمد; also transliterated as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and additionally known by at least fifty aliases Al-Qaeda, alternatively spelled al-Qaida, al-Qa`ida or al-Qa`idah, ( Arabic:; ar-Latn ''al-qāʿidah'' Translation: The Osama bin Laden, with some spelling variations is the name used in English to refer to (أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن born 10 March The Combatant Status Review Tribunals ( CSRT) are a set of Tribunals purposed to determine whether Detainees held by the United He claimed to have beheaded him, but did not specify whether he had cut his throat before cutting off his head (Zarqawi-fashion) or cut off his head from the back with a sword or axe, as decapitations were done for millennia and are still done in Saudi Arabia. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (أبومصعب الزرقاوي, Abu Musab from Zarqa)) (October 30 1966 – June 7 2006 born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal Decapitation (from Latin, caput, capitis, meaning head or beheading, is the cutting off of the head of a person or animal The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA ( المملكة العربية السعودية, al-Mamlaka al-ʻArabiyya as-Suʻūdiyya) or Suudi ^[13] In a confession read during his Tribunal hearing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is on record repeating:

This confession repeated, word for word, the phrasing leaked, in 2002, from his controversial interrogation in a clandestine CIA interrogation center. ^[15]

On March 19, 2007 Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh's lawyers cited Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession in defense of their client. Events 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ^[14][16] They said they had always acknowledged that their client played a role in Pearl's murder, but they had always argued that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the actual murderer. They plan for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession to play a central role in their appeal of their client's death sentence.

In his book In the Line of Fire, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf states that Daniel Pearl's murderer was an agent of MI6 (British Intelligence), who at some point became a double agent. In the Line of Fire A Memoir is a book that was written by former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf and first published on September General (ret Pervez Musharraf ( (born 11 August 1943 NI(M, HI(M, TBt, is the former Military dictator and President of The Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS) colloquially known as MI6 is the United Kingdom 's external Intelligence agency. A split album featuring performances by bands The KGB and Alien Spy that was produced in 1997 ^[17]

Aftermath

A collection of Pearl's writings (At Home in the World) was published posthumously in 2002 demonstrating his "extraordinary skill as a writer" and his "eye for quirky stories -- many of which appeared in The Journal's iconic "middle column". ^[18] Six of these stories were adapted by composer Russell Steinberg into an album: Stories from My Favorite Planet -- a trio for violin, piano and reader.

The Daniel Pearl Foundation was formed by Pearl's family and friends to continue Pearl's mission and to address what they consider the root causes of his death, in the spirit, style, and principles that shaped Pearl's work and character. ^[19] The principles cited include uncompromised objectivity and integrity; insightful and unconventional perspective; tolerance and respect for people of all cultures; unshaken belief in the effectiveness of education and communication; and the love of music, humor, and friendship. Daniel Pearl World Music Days have been held worldwide since 2002, and have promoted over 1500 concerts in over 60 countries, with dedications to tolerance and humanity.

Pearl's widow, Mariane Pearl, wrote the memoir A Mighty Heart which tells the full story of Pearl and more about his life. Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl (born July 23, 1967) is a French Freelance Journalist and a Reporter and Columnist For the movie see A Mighty Heart (film. A Mighty Heart is a Memoir by Mariane Pearl, the widow of the slain ^[20] The book was adapted into a film starring Angelina Jolie and Dan Futterman,^[21] who, like Daniel Pearl, is a member of Alpha Delta Phi. A Mighty Heart is a 2007 film directed by Michael Winterbottom; It is an Adaptation of Mariane Pearl 's Memoir, Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4 1975 is an American film actor Daniel Futterman (born June 8 1967) is an American Actor and Screenwriter. .

On September 1, 2003, a book titled Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, written by Bernard-Henri Lévy was published. Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Bernard-Henri Lévy (born November 5, 1948 in Béni Saf, Algeria) is a French Public intellectual and journalist ^[22] The book, which the author characterized as an "investigative novel", stirred controversy for some of its speculative conclusions about the killing, and for some of its characterizations of Pakistan, and for the author's decision to engage in an exercise of fictionalizing Pearl's thoughts at the end of his life. Lévy was criticized for the book. ^{[23][24][25][26]} This book is being adapted into a film directed by Tod Williams and starring Josh Lucas focusing on the last few days of Daniel Pearl's life. Tod Culpan "Kip" Williams (born September 27, 1968 in New York) is an American director, producer and Screenwriter Josh Lucas (born Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer; June 20, 1971) is an American Actor. ^[27]

HBO Films produced a 79-minute documentary titled The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl. HBO Films is a division of the Cable television network HBO that produces Feature films and Miniseries. It premiered on HBO on October 10, 2006. Events 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated The year 2006 in film involved some significant events Releases of sequels took place with Superman Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest The documentary chronicles Pearl's life and death, and features extensive interviews with his immediate family. It is narrated by Christiane Amanpour, and was nominated for two Emmy Awards. Christiane Amanpour, CBE, (born January 12, 1958) ( کریستین امان‌پور is the chief international correspondent for CNN.

American modernist composer Steve Reich wrote his 2006 work The Daniel Variations which interweaves Pearl's own words with verses from the Book of Daniel. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3 The Book of Daniel (דניאל, originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a Book in both the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh) and the Christian

Pearl's parents, Judea and Ruth, edited and published a collection of responses sent to them from around the globe, entitled I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2004). Their son's final words on the video were "My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish," after which Pearl added one obscure detail, that a street in Israel's Bene Barak is named after his great grandfather who was one of the founders of the town^[10]. The family has written that they understand this last detail authenticates his own voice and demonstrates his willingness to claim his identity, even in the hands of deadly captors. Judea Pearl has written that at first, this statement surprised him but he later understood it to be a reference to the town-building tradition of his family contrasted with the destructive aims of his captors. The seed idea to collect responses began when a girl from New York began to compile statements about being Jewish as her Bat Mitzvah project to create a future gift book for Pearl's son Adam. Judea Pearl then enlarged the idea by inviting responses from artists, government leaders, authors, journalists, scientists, scholars, rabbis and others. All wrote personal responses to what they thought upon hearing that these were Pearl's last words. Some responses are one sentence, others several pages.

The book is organized by five themes: Identity; Heritage; Covenant, Chosenness, and Faith; Humanity and Ethnicity; Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World) and Justice. Contributors include Theodore Bikel, Alan Dershowitz, Kirk Douglas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Larry King, Amos Oz, Shimon Peres, Daniel Schorr, Elie Wiesel, Peter Yarrow, and A.B. Yehoshua. Theodore Meir Bikel (born May 2 1924, Vienna, Austria) is an Academy Award - and Tony Award -nominated Character Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American Lawyer, Jurist, and political commentator. Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (born March 15 1933 Brooklyn New York) is an Associate Justice on the U Larry King (born November 19, 1933) is an American television/radio host Amos Oz (עמוס עוז (born May 4, 1939, birth name Amos Klausner) is an Israeli Writer, Novelist and Journalist (שמעון פרס born Szymon Perski on August 2 1923, is the ninth President of the State of Israel. For the actor see Dan Shor Daniel Louis Schorr (born August 31, 1916) is an American Journalist who has covered Elie Wiesel (born Eliezer Wiesel on September 30 1928 in Sighetu Marmaţiei, Romania) is a Jewish writer professor political activist Peter Yarrow (born May 31, 1938 in New York City, New York) is an American Singer who found fame with the 1960s Abraham "Boolie" Yehoshua (born in Jerusalem in 1936 is an Israeli novelist essayist and playwright known publicly as A

Legacy

In 2002, Pearl posthumously received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award from Colby College and in 2007, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award from the Houston Holocaust Museum. Elijah Parish Lovejoy ( November 9 1802 &ndash November 7 1837) was an American Presbyterian minister, Colby College, founded in 1813, is an American private liberal arts college located on Mayflower Hill in Waterville Maine. The Holocaust Museum Houston, is located in Houston, Texas and was opened in 1996

On April 16, 2007, Pearl was added to the Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach as the first non-Holocaust victim. Events 1178 BC - A Solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach is a Holocaust memorial in Miami Beach, Florida. His father, Judea Pearl, gave his consent for the induction in order to remind generations to come that "The forces of barbarity and evil are still active in our world. The Holocaust didn't finish in 1945. "^[28] Journalist Bradley Burston criticized the addition of a post-Holocaust victim to the memorial, saying it diminishes the uniqueness of the Holocaust. The Holocaust (from the Greek el ''ὁλόκαυστον'' (el-Latn holókauston holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt" also known as ^[29]

In May 2007, the Communications Technology Magnet School at Birmingham High School was renamed the Daniel Pearl Journalism and Communications Magnet. Birmingham High School is a public Coeducational High school in the neighborhood/district of Lake Balboa in the San Fernando Valley section of The Daniel Pearl Journalism and Communications Magnet is a Magnet school within Birmingham High School in Los Angeles, California.

Shortly after his death, Pearl's parents, Ruth and Judea Pearl, founded the Daniel Pearl Foundation to further the ideals that inspired his life and work. Judea Pearl is a Computer scientist and Philosopher, best known for developing the probabilistic approach to Artificial intelligence, in The foundation's mission is to promote cross-cultural understanding through journalism, music, and dialogue. Its programs include: World Music Days which uses the power of music to promote tolerance and inspire respect for differences; PEARL World Youth News which provides an online journalist certification course for High School Students; Annual Daniel Pearl Journalism and Editorial Fellowships which brings mid-career foreign journalists and editors to work for six months in a US newsroom; the Daniel Pearl Media Internship Program which provides media internships to young Israelis and Palestinians who have attended a peace camp; and The Daniel Pearl Dialogues for Muslim-Jewish Understanding - a traveling public dialogue in which professors Judea Pearl and Akbar Ahmed discuss Muslim-Jewish relationships in a frank and respectful discourse.

The honorary board of the Daniel Pearl Foundation includes Christiane Amanpour, President Bill Clinton, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Danny Gill, John Hennessy, Ted Koppel, Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, Sari Nusseibeh, Mariane Pearl, Itzhak Perlman, Harold Schulweiss, Craig Sherman, Paul Steiger, and Elie Wiesel. Christiane Amanpour, CBE, (born January 12, 1958) ( کریستین امان‌پور is the chief international correspondent for CNN. William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States Abdul Sattar Edhi, NI ( Urdu: عبد الستار ایدھی) or Edhi, as he is often known is one of the most active philanthropists John Hennessey or John Hennessy is a name shared by the following individuals John Hennessy (archbishop (1825&ndash1900 American Roman Catholic Edward James "Ted" Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is an American journalist, best known as the former anchor for the Family and early life Noor was born Lisa Najeeb Halaby. She is the daughter of Najeeb Halaby, a former CEO of Pan-American World Airways Sari Nusseibeh ( سري نسيبة) (born in 1949 in Damascus, Syria) is a Palestinian professor of Philosophy and president of the Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl (born July 23, 1967) is a French Freelance Journalist and a Reporter and Columnist Itzhak Perlman (born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli American Violin Virtuoso, conductor, and Pedagogue Elie Wiesel (born Eliezer Wiesel on September 30 1928 in Sighetu Marmaţiei, Romania) is a Jewish writer professor political activist

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• Burger, Timothy J. "Kidnappers Cut Pearl's Throat Videotape Shows Newsman's Brutal Slaying", 'Daily News (New York)', Daily News, L. The Daily News of New York City is the fifth most-widely circulated daily Newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 703137 P. , 2002-02-22, p. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne  3. Retrieved on 2006-11-17. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 284 - Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers   - 'Fahad Naseem, one of the three militants accused of kidnapping Pearl, told a judge in Karachi yesterday that Pearl was kidnapped because he was "a Jew and is working against Islam. "'

• Masood, Salman; Talat Hussain. "Suspect in Reporter's Death Is Wanted in Attacks on Musharraf", 'The New York Times', The New York Times Company, 2004-05-29, p. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the  Section A; Column 3; Foreign Desk; Pg. 2. Retrieved on 2006-11-17. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 284 - Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers   - 'The intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that information from American intelligence agencies helped Pakistani investigators track down the ring involved in the plot. Information from Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Al Qaeda's former head of operations who was captured in March 2002, aided the investigation, he said. American officials say they believe that Mr. Mohammed was the person who actually killed Mr. Pearl. '

• Popham, Peter. "Video Reveals the Hideous Sacrifice of Captive Reporter; Pearl murder gruesome tape shows American speaking into camera as unknown killer slits his throat, then beheads him. ", 'The Independent', Newspaper Publishing PLC, 2002-02-23, p. The Independent is a British compact Newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly 's Independent News & Media. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western Book printed from Movable  2. Retrieved on 2006-11-17. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 284 - Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers  

See also

• Amjad Hussain Farooqi
• 2006 Fox journalists kidnapping
• Decapitation
• Eugene Armstrong
• Nick Berg
• Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr.
• Kim Sun-il
• Jack Hensley
• Kenneth Bigley
• Shosei Koda
• Margaret Hassan
• Seif Adnan Kanaan

Further reading

• Lévy, Bernard-Henri, Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, Melville House Publishing, 2003. Amjad Farooqi (1972&mdash September 26, 2004) ( Urdu: امجد فاروقی) known by the alias Amjad Hussain (Urdu Fox News Channel journalists Olaf Wiig, a New Zealander Photojournalist, and Steve Centanni, an American reporter Decapitation (from Latin, caput, capitis, meaning head or beheading, is the cutting off of the head of a person or animal Olin Eugene Armstrong Jr ( 5 June 1953 - 20 September 2004) was a foreign hostage in Iraq beheaded by his captors in 2004 Nicholas Berg ( April 2, 1978 &ndash May 7, 2004) was an American Businessman seeking Telecommunications work Paul Marshall Johnson Jr ( May 8, 1955 - c June 18 2004 was an American Helicopter engineer who Kim Sun-il ( September 13, 1970 &ndash c June 22, 2004) was a South Korean Translator who was kidnapped Jack Hensley ( September 22, 1955 – September 21, 2004) was an American Engineer from Marietta, Cobb County Kenneth John Bigley ( April 22, 1942 - October 7, 2004) Liverpool, England, who was kidnapped in the al-Mansour district Shosei Koda ( Japanese: 香田証生 Kōda Shōsei; November 29, 1979 &ndash November 3, 2004) was a Japanese Margaret Hassan (also known as Madam Margaret) ( April 18, 1945 &ndashNovember 2004 was an Irish aid worker who had worked in Iraq for many Seif Adnan Kanaan (died October 22, 2004) was an Iraqi citizen who was abducted in Iraq and beheaded on October 22, 2004 Bernard-Henri Lévy (born November 5, 1948 in Béni Saf, Algeria) is a French Public intellectual and journalist ISBN 0-9718659-4-9
• Pearl, Daniel, At Home in the World: Collected Writings from the Wall Street Journal, New York: Free Press, June 2002. ISBN 0-7432-4317-X
• Pearl, Mariane, and Sarah Crichton, A Mighty Heart, New York: Scribner, 2003. Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl (born July 23, 1967) is a French Freelance Journalist and a Reporter and Columnist ISBN 0-7432-4442-7
• Pearl, Ruth and Judea, eds. I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl. Jewish Lights Pub. , January 2004. ISBN 1-58023-183-7.

External links

• The Daniel Pearl Foundation
• Remembering Daniel Pearl
• Rewards for Justice Daniel Pearl Page
• The Guardian: "The Pakistan connection"
• Asia Times — Who killed Daniel Pearl?
• South Asian Journalists Association Roundup
• Wall Street Journal selection of stories by Daniel Pearl
• About Pearl's dual citizenship
• The Black Sites - A rare look inside the C.I.A.’s secret interrogation program
• Interview with Judea Pearl from the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Stanford University's Kamil Dada interviews Bernard-Henri Lévy on the political implications of Daniel Pearl's death