The Pakistan police unknown to the FBI and CIA had this one man who used
name "Rubaiya" at one time, from February 5 to February 12.
This explains the fact that this guy stressed a couple of times he had
turned himself in on February 5. This Special Service Police element -
this gave them time to maybe kill Danny Pearl for he knew who led him to
this trap. No way he could ever have been returned, alive. For the
police were involved in this - as they say in Hebrews "where there is a
testament, there must by necessity be the death of the testators".
We don't know the real names of any of these peoples; but we know for
sure they are not freedom fighters but vicious killers - maybe Danny
Pearl WAS getting too close to a truth and had to be silenced - the lamb
to slaughter. Only a cop could have led him to his death - caught in
the trap.
Psalms, psalm 44
"22": Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted
as sheep for the slaughter.
Paki
Pakistan vows to catch Pearl's killers
Video shows Wall Street Journal reporter being killed by kidnappersA
video provided to Pakistani authorities offers graphic evidence of the
death of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. NBC's Dawna Friesen
reports from Karachi.
NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES
Feb. 22 - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf pledged Friday to
apprehend "each and every one of the gang of terrorists" involved in the
kidnap and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. U.S.
officials have confirmed to NBC News that a video shows Pearl, who was
seized in southern Pakistan a month ago, being killed by his Islamic
extremist captors. In Beijing, President Bush called Pearl's murder a
"criminal, barbaric act" and said the killing would only "deepen the
resolve of the United States of America."
Feb. 22 - NBC News analyst Steve Emerson discusses the possible
reactions of the United States to the killing of journalist Daniel
Pearl.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT confirmed Pearl's death, saying the
U.S. Embassy in Pakistan received evidence of the murder on Thursday.
Sources close to the investigation who had seen the tape said it showed
Pearl dead, his throat cut.
The announcements crushed the hopes of Pearl's colleagues
and his pregnant wife, who had pleaded for the reporter's safe return
ever since he was abducted in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Jan.
23. The Journal said its staff was "heartbroken," and Pearl's parents
and two sisters said they were "shocked and saddened" by the news.
"Up until a few hours ago, we were confident that Danny
would return safely, for we believe that no human being could be capable
of harming such a gentle soul," his family said in a statement from
their home in the Encino section of Los Angeles.
Pearl's wife, Mariane, was told of his death in Karachi,
where she had been staying while awaiting word on her husband's fate,
said Steve Goldstein, a vice president of Dow Jones & Co., the owner of
the Journal.
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In the weeks since her husband's capture, Mariane Pearl,
a freelance journalist, had pleaded for his freedom and offered herself
in his place. She is now seven months pregnant with the couple's first
child.
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In Beijing, a grim-faced President Bush said, "All Americans are sad
and angry to learn of the murder."
"Those who would threaten Americans, those who would
engage in criminal, barbaric acts need to know that these crimes only
hurt their cause and only deepen the resolve of the United States of
America to rid the world of these agents of terror," Bush said.
"May God bless Daniel Pearl," he said.
MUSHARRAF ORDERS CRACKDOWN
Bush spoke with Musharraf early Friday as the U.S.
president returned home from a five-day trip to Asia, Secretary of State
Colin Powell said.
"President Musharraf took it pretty badly because he was
doing everything to stop" the kidnappers from killing Pearl, Powell said
aboard Air Force One.
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hearing of Pearl's death, offering condolences and ordering an immediate
roundup of all suspects possibly linked to the kidnapping and murder.
Musharraf expressed his "profound grief" over the killing
and ordered security forces "to apprehend each and every member of the
gang of terrorists involved in this gruesome murder."
Four people have been arrested and charged in the case,
and Pakistani authorities had been maintaining for weeks that they were
close to solving it.
A statement released by Musharraf's office said the
president "would stay the course to ensure that his country and indeed
this world is free of terror."
Security forces will now be able to proceed more
vigorously than before because there's no longer a need for extreme
caution to protect Pearl's life, an investigator who spoke on condition
of anonymity told The Associated Press. He said the investigation is now
focusing on finding several suspects believed to be the ones who
actually held and killed Pearl.
Lonnie Kelley, public affairs officer at the U.S.
consulate in Karachi, said, "Both Pakistan and U.S. investigators have
identified the perpetrators behind the crime."
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Pearl was abducted Jan. 23 after arranging to interview
the leader of a radical Muslim faction with purported ties to the
al-Qaida terrorist network and terror suspect Richard C. Reid, who was
arrested on a Paris-Miami flight he allegedly boarded with explosives in
his shoes.
Pakistani officials said there were indications that
Pearl had been lured into a trap by false information. Pakistani police
have seized several suspects, including an extremist who said in court
that he engineered Pearl's abduction.
The videotape confirming Pearl's death "contained scenes
showing Mr. Pearl in captivity and scenes of his murder by the
kidnappers," the interior minister of the Sindh province, which includes
Karachi, said Thursday.
"The tape appears to be correct," said the minister,
Mukhtar Ahmad Sheikh.
A Pakistani investigator told The Associated Press that
kidnappers killed Pearl by cutting his throat, and then decapitated him.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, he said the kidnappers made two
videotapes, one longer than the next, that contained graphic images of
Pearl's death and the moments afterward. Another source close to the
investigation said a tape showed Pearl before he was killed saying into
the video camera, "I am a Jew. My mother is a Jew."
DETAILS STILL SKETCHY
No details were immediately available on exactly where or
when the reporter was killed. Karachi police said no body had been
recovered so far.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher
provided no details on the evidence received by the U.S. Embassy in
Pakistan. U.S. officials told NBC News that a videotape purportedly
showed Pearl either dead or being killed, and the FBI was evaluating the
tape's authenticity.
The Journal statement said Pearl's "murder is an act of
barbarism that makes a mockery of everything Danny's kidnappers claimed
to believe in."
The statement, signed by Publisher Peter Kann and
Managing Editor Paul Steiger, called Pearl "an outstanding colleague, a
great reporter, and a dear friend of many at the Journal."
Four days after Pearl disappeared, an e-mail sent to
Pakistani and international media showed photos of him in captivity and
demanded that the United States repatriate Pakistanis captured in
Afghanistan and detained at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A second e-mail sent Jan. 30 said Pearl would be killed
in 24 hours. That was the last known message from his captors.
On Feb. 12, Islamic militant Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh was
arrested in the case. He said during a court hearing that he had
engineered Pearl's abduction to protest Pakistan's alliance with the
United States' post-Sept. 11 war on terrorism.
"Our country shouldn't be catering to America's needs,"
the militant said.
According to Pakistani authorities, Saeed, a British-born
key figure in an airplane hijacking and hostage incident in 1999,
claimed the reporter had been killed in an escape attempt around Jan.
31.
In Karachi, police officials said the investigation was
now focusing on Amjad Faruqi, identified by Saeed as the man who
actually carried out the kidnapping. Police raided his home last week
but found no sign of him.
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Police are also looking for a man identified as Hashim
Qadeer, whom Pearl knew as Arif. His family claims he was killed in
Afghanistan.
'A WALKING SUNSHINE'
Pearl reported from the United States, Europe and Asia in
a 12-year career with the financial daily. Based in Bombay, India, for
the past year as the Journal's bureau chief for South Asia, Pearl was on
assignment in Pakistan as part of its coverage of the war on terrorism.
The Princeton, N.J., native had worked in western
Massachusetts and San Francisco before joining the Journal in Atlanta in
1990. He later reported from Washington, London and Paris - where he
wrote about the Middle East - before moving to Asia.
Terry Anderson, the former Associated Press reporter who
was held hostage for nearly seven years in Lebanon, said Pearl was "a
wonderful reporter and a very decent man."
"I'm sure the foreign correspondents who go and cover
areas of violence are going to take this to heart and try to be even
more careful," Anderson said. "In order to the job they do, they still
take risks, because they believe it's important that it's worthwhile, as
Danny did, to find and tell the truth.
Pearl's wife has not yet made any public comment, but his
family in California issued a statement late Thursday.
"Danny was a beloved son, a brother, an uncle, a husband
and a father to a child who will never know him," his family said.
"A musician, a writer, a story-teller and a
bridge-builder, he was a walking sunshine of truth, humor, friendship
and compassion. We grieve with the many who have known him in his life
and we weep for a world that must reckon with his death."
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