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Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American journalist who worked for The Wall Street Journal. On January 23, 2002, he was kidnapped by Islamist militants while he was on his way to what he had expected would be an interview with Pakistani religious cleric Mubarak Ali Gilani in the city of Karachi.
Daniel Pearl, U.S. citizen, beheaded February 1, 2002, in Pakistan by al-Qaeda jihadists. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] A video (published in July 2002 by the FSB ) shows a woman being beheaded by alleged henchmen of Chechen commander Movsar Barayev .
Orville Lloyd Douglas, a pop critic, has criticized the casting [27] because, he said, "Jolie is white" and Mariane Pearl is "mixed race"; Pearl is the multiracial daughter of an Afro-Chinese-Cuban mother and a Dutch Jewish father. [23] [28] [29] Pearl personally chose Jolie to play the lead in A Mighty Heart. [30]
The man accused of beheading an American journalist back in 2002 will now be released from prison. The Pakistani man was convicted and then acquitted in the murder of Daniel Pearl. Pearl's killer ...
The British national convicted of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl must be released from prison after his conviction was overturned earlier this year, a Pakistani court ruled ...
The High Court in the province of Sindh on Thursday acquitted the four, including Briton Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was sentenced to death in 2002 for masterminding Pearl's murder.
A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Daniel Pearl (also subtitled A Mighty Heart: The Inside Story of the Al Qaeda Kidnapping of Danny Pearl) (2003) is a memoir by Mariane Pearl, a freelance French journalist.
The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl (2006) a television documentary by Indian directors Ahmed Alauddin Jamal and Ramesh Sharma which aired on HBO compares the contrasting lives of Sheikh and Danel Pearl. [68] Hollywood film A Mighty Heart (2007) is based on the life of slain journalist Daniel Pearl.