Daniel Pearl

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Daniel Pearl

• The online slaughter of a journalist
• Denitsa
  Trifonova

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Biography

• Born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1963
• Took a bachelors degree in communications in
  Stanford University
• Joined the Wall Street Journal in 1990
• Worked from 2000 as the newspaper's South Asia
  bureau chief in Bombay

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Kidnapped

• Covering the war on terrorism
• an interview with Sheikh Mubarik ali Gilani
• On January 23, 2002 - abducted by a group called
  The National Movement for the Restoration of
  Pakistani Sovereignty
• kidnapperguy_at_hotmail.com

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Abduction

• February 21, 2002 - his murder was confirmed
• The video showed the death in graphic detail

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I am a Jew, my mother is a Jew."

• Video Online
• www.ogrish.com
• The F.B.I. called it obscenity
• The videotape is under the protection of the
  First Amendment
• Rotten.com, Yahoos Geocities, consumptionjunction
  .com, bangedup.com and shopping-nice.com
• ALIEN NATION REPORT website (http//www.moveabove.
  org/)

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The Murderer

• Sheikh Mubarik ali
  Gilani
• For those who would like to confirm, there are
  pictures of me on the Internet holding his head."

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Consequences

• Shocked society
• Ultimate dread among foreign correspondents
• Public discourse
• Society needs to draw the right lesson.

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Daniel Pearl Foundation

• The Daniel Pearl Dialogue for Muslim-Jewish
  Understanding
• a series of programs involving young people in
  journalism internships and web-based news
  services
• His wife, Mariane Pearl, wrote A MIGHTY HEART
  The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny
  Pearl
• Bernard-Henri Lévy - WHO KILLED DANIEL PEARL?
  
• June 2007 a film called A Mighty Heart
  released

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Sources

• http//www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/danie
  l-pearl-755405.html
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1793670.stm
• http//www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,85
  99,212284,00.html
• http//archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/sout
  h/02/21/missing.reporter/index.html
• http//www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/video
  s-show-killing-of-kidnapped-journalist-661721.html
  
• http//www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/05/527
  72
• http//query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res990
  3EFD9133EF931A15751C0A9649C8B63scp1sqU.S.Says
  VideoShowsCaptorsKilledReporterstnyt
• http//www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/world
  wide-revulsion-at-murder-of-american-journalist-on
  -video-661790.html
• http//www.aliennationreport.com/pg5.html
• http//www.danielpearl.org/about_us/danielpearl_bi
  o.html
• http//www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,260
  652,00.html
• http//www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pearl
  s-murder-planned-for-maximum-shock-661891.html
• http//online.wsj.com/article/SB120173154421629933
  .html