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Who Killed Daniel Pearl?
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A year ago this week,
Wall Street Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl walked into a kidnap trap in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest and most chaotic city. After six days of captivity, he was murdered. In July, a Pakistani court convicted four men for their role in delivering Pearl to the kidnappers, who were waiting for him in a car outside Karachi's Metropole Hotel. Three were given life sentences. Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, 29, a smooth-talking, British-educated Islamic militant who had served jail time in India for kidnapping Western tourists, received the death sentence for acting as the master planner of Pearl's abduction and...