Kidnap suspect says Pearl was seized because he was a Jew A 21-year-old Islamic militant charged in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl told a judge in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday that the journalist was seized because he was ''anti-Islam and a Jew,'' his lawyer said. In a closed door deposition, Fahad Naseem, 21, admitted sending e-mails announcing Pearl's kidnapping on orders of British-born suspect Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, according to his lawyer. Naseem was among three people arrested for sending the e-mails announcing Pearl's Jan. 23 abduction, which included photos of him in captivity. Naseem was brought to court with his head covered by a hood and surrounded by three dozen heavily armed policemen. Pearl, 38, the Journal's South Asian bureau chief, was abducted on his way to a meeting in Karachi with Islamic extremists. The question of whether Pearl is alive remains unanswered, and police are believed searching for two suspects -- Amjad Faruqi and Mohammed Hashim Qadeer -- who had been in contact with the reporter.
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