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Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American journalist for The Wall Street Journal. He was kidnapped and later beheaded by terrorists in Pakistan.[1][2][3]
Pearl was working as the South Asia Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, based in Mumbai, India. He was kidnapped when he went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between British citizen Richard Reid (known as the "shoe bomber") and Al-Qaeda. Pearl was killed by his captors.[4][5]
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.[1][6] In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a member of Al-Qaeda, claimed that he had personally beheaded Pearl.[2][7][8] Researchers have also connected Al-Qaeda member Saif al-Adel with the kidnapping.[3]
The Daniel Pearl Foundation was formed in 2002 in memory of Pearl, to promote the ideals that inspired his life and work. The Foundation works domestically and internationally to promote cross-cultural dialogue and understanding, to counter cultural and religious intolerance, to cultivate responsible and balanced journalism and to inspire unity and friendship through music.[9]
Pearl was working as the South Asia Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, based in Mumbai, India. He was kidnapped when he went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between British citizen Richard Reid (known as the "shoe bomber") and Al-Qaeda. Pearl was killed by his captors.[4][5]
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.[1][6] In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a member of Al-Qaeda, claimed that he had personally beheaded Pearl.[2][7][8] Researchers have also connected Al-Qaeda member Saif al-Adel with the kidnapping.[3]
The Daniel Pearl Foundation was formed in 2002 in memory of Pearl, to promote the ideals that inspired his life and work. The Foundation works domestically and internationally to promote cross-cultural dialogue and understanding, to counter cultural and religious intolerance, to cultivate responsible and balanced journalism and to inspire unity and friendship through music.[9]
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The Journalist and the Jihadi - The Murder of Daniel Pearl
"I had a dream the night that Daniel was kidnapped and the dream was that he was in some kind of a troubled situation. He was very scared, he felt like he is...
Thank you my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that October 10 is the anniversary of the birth of Jewish-American journalist for The Wall Street Journal Daniel Pearl who was kidnapped and later beheaded by terrorists in Pakistan.
The Journalist and the Jihadi - The Murder of Daniel Pearl
""I had a dream the night that Daniel was kidnapped and the dream was that he was in some kind of a troubled situation. He was very scared, he felt like he is gonna die."
The September 2001 attack on the World Trade Centre was an act of war and terror. One of the world's most distinguished newspaper The World Street Journal is based just across the street. In its aftermath, every media outlet mobilized its reporters to find out who is behind it. Daniel Pearl of The World Street Journal was already based in Asia. Hours after the Twin Tower attack he began tracking the story untill he became part of it.
This is the story of a passionate journalist and a shrewd terrorist. A reporter who happened to be Jewish and the Islamic Jihadi who set him up for slaughter.
Daniel Pearl spent his formative years in Los Angeles. He grew up in a Jewish family with two sisters and high-achieving academic parents. His father is a computer science professor and his mother is a software engineer.
Ruth Pearl, Daniel Pearl's Mother speaks about Daniel Pearl. She says, "Daniel was interested in everything and this was from childhood, he was interested in music, cooking and soccer."
Michelle Pearl, Daniel Pearl's Sister speaks about Daniel Pearl. She says, "He plays Soccer and he plays violin. He always involved in music in any way he could be".
Eventually, he decides to become a Journalist, he started a newspaper at Stanford which is still in existence.
At Stanford University Daniel developed an interest in International issues and began to travel and explore Human Rights.
Daniel came to the paper in 1990 from The Berkshire Eagle, a good small paper and he was a hit from the beginning. Journalist Asra Numani works with him at The Journal.
He was definitely unorthodox, He was the first journal reporter with a ponytail and he always wears the craziest ties. I was a Muslim daughter of India he was Jewish son but we never divide in line in between us."
In London, Omar Sheikh another man was also being brought up in a middle-class suburb. He was ten years younger than Daniel, a Muslim of Pakistani origin but born and brought up in Britain. His father owned a garment business. Omar studied at an elite English private school.
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwg33FpSE0E
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1. Daniel and Marianne Pearl.
2. Daniel Pearl kidnapped.
3. Prof Judea Pearl statement about his son Daniel Pearl
Background from danielpearl.org/home/about-us/about-danny/
"The world has come to know Daniel Pearl as the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002, just four months after 9/11. People around the world, along with his pregnant wife and family, prayed for his release. Since then, he has been remembered as a symbol of hope: a man who built bridges between diverse cultures — as a writer and a gifted musician.
Danny was born on October 10, 1963, in Princeton, New Jersey, and grew up in Los Angeles, where he displayed an insatiable curiosity for music, academics and sports.
Music turned out to be an essential form of expression for Danny and led him to become a fixture in several bands throughout the world, where he improvised on the electric violin, fiddle, or mandolin. Today, friends and colleagues still recall how quickly he would pick up an instrument when he sensed an occasion, such as writing a song for a pregnant friend past her due date, or the Christmas night when he entertained downhearted co-workers at his office.
Danny exuded compassion and joy wherever he went. As his best friend said, “Danny was the only one who didn’t know he was charismatic.” He endeared himself to others with an easy humor and appreciation for the absurd, always keeping an open mind to other perspectives, cultures, and backgrounds. He was humble, generous and loved life and people. World leaders and peasants, Rabbis and Mullahs, all considered him a friend.
A gifted writer from a very young age, Danny’s aptitude for journalism became apparent as a student at Stanford University where he co-founded the student newspaper Stanford Commentary. He graduated in 1985 with Phi Beta Kappa honors and then spent a summer as a Pulliam Fellow intern at the Indianapolis Star before joining the North Adams Transcript and the Berkshire Eagle. After a few years, he moved on to the San Francisco Business Times and within few weeks he joined the Wall Street Journal in 1990. Danny started in the Journal’s Atlanta bureau and moved successively to the Washington and London bureaus, serving as a Middle East correspondent. After he met Mariane in 1998, he moved to Paris where they were married a year later.
In October of 2000, they moved to Bombay, where Danny became the South Asia Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal. Danny’s skill as a foreign correspondent was apparent not only in his entertaining Page One “A-hed” pieces which shed light on other cultures, but also in investigative stories that uncovered the truth from the rubble of war and devastation. It was Danny who uncovered that the U.S. had mistakenly bombed a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant, believing it to be a weapons factory. Later, he broke the story of Al Qaeda’s money laundering through the Tanzanite gem market.
It was from Bombay that Danny covered the “war on terrorism,” occasionally venturing into Pakistan. He was retracing the steps of “shoe bomber” Richard Reid and hoped to meet with Sheik Gilani, a spiritual leader, when he was abducted in Karachi on January 23, 2002. For weeks, millions around the world — from heads of state, to religious leaders and ordinary people — rallied for Danny’s release. In Danny, the terrorists believed they abducted a media figure, an American, and a Jew. But they had much more — a true citizen of the world and an embodiment of civilized values, whose death, like his life, would inspire millions of people in the cause of decency and cultural understanding. Several weeks elapsed without word of his fate; his murder was confirmed on February 21, 2002. Four of the kidnappers were convicted on July 15, 2002, including mastermind Omar Saeed Sheik, although others believed to be involved are still at large.
Two days before his abduction, Danny learned that his wife Mariane was expecting a baby boy; he chose the name Adam for their son. In May, just three months after his murder, Mariane Pearl gave birth to Adam.
Following his murder, Danny’s family and friends established the Daniel Pearl Foundation to carry on his legacy, using music and words to address the root causes of the hatred that took his life. The book “At Home in the World” published in June 2002, features 50 of Danny’s best articles, illustrating his curiosity, humor, fairness and his love of humanity.
Danny’s spirit lives on in the hearts of those who knew him, and in the lives of the thousands of people who have been inspired and touched by him.
At Home in the World features fifty of the best stories Danny wrote during his fifteen years as a domestic and international journalist. They illustrate his humor, curiousity, objectivity, fairness and love of humanity."
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The Journalist and the Jihadi - The Murder of Daniel Pearl
""I had a dream the night that Daniel was kidnapped and the dream was that he was in some kind of a troubled situation. He was very scared, he felt like he is gonna die."
The September 2001 attack on the World Trade Centre was an act of war and terror. One of the world's most distinguished newspaper The World Street Journal is based just across the street. In its aftermath, every media outlet mobilized its reporters to find out who is behind it. Daniel Pearl of The World Street Journal was already based in Asia. Hours after the Twin Tower attack he began tracking the story untill he became part of it.
This is the story of a passionate journalist and a shrewd terrorist. A reporter who happened to be Jewish and the Islamic Jihadi who set him up for slaughter.
Daniel Pearl spent his formative years in Los Angeles. He grew up in a Jewish family with two sisters and high-achieving academic parents. His father is a computer science professor and his mother is a software engineer.
Ruth Pearl, Daniel Pearl's Mother speaks about Daniel Pearl. She says, "Daniel was interested in everything and this was from childhood, he was interested in music, cooking and soccer."
Michelle Pearl, Daniel Pearl's Sister speaks about Daniel Pearl. She says, "He plays Soccer and he plays violin. He always involved in music in any way he could be".
Eventually, he decides to become a Journalist, he started a newspaper at Stanford which is still in existence.
At Stanford University Daniel developed an interest in International issues and began to travel and explore Human Rights.
Daniel came to the paper in 1990 from The Berkshire Eagle, a good small paper and he was a hit from the beginning. Journalist Asra Numani works with him at The Journal.
He was definitely unorthodox, He was the first journal reporter with a ponytail and he always wears the craziest ties. I was a Muslim daughter of India he was Jewish son but we never divide in line in between us."
In London, Omar Sheikh another man was also being brought up in a middle-class suburb. He was ten years younger than Daniel, a Muslim of Pakistani origin but born and brought up in Britain. His father owned a garment business. Omar studied at an elite English private school.
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwg33FpSE0E
Images
1. Daniel and Marianne Pearl.
2. Daniel Pearl kidnapped.
3. Prof Judea Pearl statement about his son Daniel Pearl
Background from danielpearl.org/home/about-us/about-danny/
"The world has come to know Daniel Pearl as the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002, just four months after 9/11. People around the world, along with his pregnant wife and family, prayed for his release. Since then, he has been remembered as a symbol of hope: a man who built bridges between diverse cultures — as a writer and a gifted musician.
Danny was born on October 10, 1963, in Princeton, New Jersey, and grew up in Los Angeles, where he displayed an insatiable curiosity for music, academics and sports.
Music turned out to be an essential form of expression for Danny and led him to become a fixture in several bands throughout the world, where he improvised on the electric violin, fiddle, or mandolin. Today, friends and colleagues still recall how quickly he would pick up an instrument when he sensed an occasion, such as writing a song for a pregnant friend past her due date, or the Christmas night when he entertained downhearted co-workers at his office.
Danny exuded compassion and joy wherever he went. As his best friend said, “Danny was the only one who didn’t know he was charismatic.” He endeared himself to others with an easy humor and appreciation for the absurd, always keeping an open mind to other perspectives, cultures, and backgrounds. He was humble, generous and loved life and people. World leaders and peasants, Rabbis and Mullahs, all considered him a friend.
A gifted writer from a very young age, Danny’s aptitude for journalism became apparent as a student at Stanford University where he co-founded the student newspaper Stanford Commentary. He graduated in 1985 with Phi Beta Kappa honors and then spent a summer as a Pulliam Fellow intern at the Indianapolis Star before joining the North Adams Transcript and the Berkshire Eagle. After a few years, he moved on to the San Francisco Business Times and within few weeks he joined the Wall Street Journal in 1990. Danny started in the Journal’s Atlanta bureau and moved successively to the Washington and London bureaus, serving as a Middle East correspondent. After he met Mariane in 1998, he moved to Paris where they were married a year later.
In October of 2000, they moved to Bombay, where Danny became the South Asia Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal. Danny’s skill as a foreign correspondent was apparent not only in his entertaining Page One “A-hed” pieces which shed light on other cultures, but also in investigative stories that uncovered the truth from the rubble of war and devastation. It was Danny who uncovered that the U.S. had mistakenly bombed a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant, believing it to be a weapons factory. Later, he broke the story of Al Qaeda’s money laundering through the Tanzanite gem market.
It was from Bombay that Danny covered the “war on terrorism,” occasionally venturing into Pakistan. He was retracing the steps of “shoe bomber” Richard Reid and hoped to meet with Sheik Gilani, a spiritual leader, when he was abducted in Karachi on January 23, 2002. For weeks, millions around the world — from heads of state, to religious leaders and ordinary people — rallied for Danny’s release. In Danny, the terrorists believed they abducted a media figure, an American, and a Jew. But they had much more — a true citizen of the world and an embodiment of civilized values, whose death, like his life, would inspire millions of people in the cause of decency and cultural understanding. Several weeks elapsed without word of his fate; his murder was confirmed on February 21, 2002. Four of the kidnappers were convicted on July 15, 2002, including mastermind Omar Saeed Sheik, although others believed to be involved are still at large.
Two days before his abduction, Danny learned that his wife Mariane was expecting a baby boy; he chose the name Adam for their son. In May, just three months after his murder, Mariane Pearl gave birth to Adam.
Following his murder, Danny’s family and friends established the Daniel Pearl Foundation to carry on his legacy, using music and words to address the root causes of the hatred that took his life. The book “At Home in the World” published in June 2002, features 50 of Danny’s best articles, illustrating his curiosity, humor, fairness and his love of humanity.
Danny’s spirit lives on in the hearts of those who knew him, and in the lives of the thousands of people who have been inspired and touched by him.
At Home in the World features fifty of the best stories Danny wrote during his fifteen years as a domestic and international journalist. They illustrate his humor, curiousity, objectivity, fairness and love of humanity."
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