Daniel Pearl

Daniel Pearl () adalah seorang jurnalis untuk Wall Street Journal dengan kewarganegaraan Amerika dan Israel. Ia diculik oleh teroris Pakistan dan kemudian dibunuh di Pakistan.

Pearl diculik saat bekerja di Kepala Biro Asia Selatan untuk The Wall Street Journal, yang berbasis di Mumbai, India. Ia pergi ke Pakistan sebagai bagian dari penyelidikan tuduhan hubungan antara warga negara Inggris Richard Reid (yang dikenal sebagai "pengebom sepatu") dan Al-Qaeda. Pearl dibunuh oleh para penculiknya.

Pada Juli 2002, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, seorang warga Inggris asal Pakistan, dihukum mati dengan cara digantung karena menculik dan membunuh Pearl. Pada Maret 2007, di sebuah tempat militer tertutup di Teluk Guantánamo, Kuba, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, seorang anggota Al-Qaeda, mengklaim bahwa ia secara pribadi memenggal Pearl. Para peneliti juga menghubungkan anggota Al-Qaeda Saif al-Adel dengan penculikan tersebut.

Referensi 

  – 'Fahad Naseem, one of the three militants accused of kidnapping Pearl, told a judge in Karachi yesterday that Pearl was kidnapped because he was "a Jew and is working against Islam."'
  – 'The intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that information from American intelligence agencies helped Pakistani investigators track down the ring involved in the plot. Information from Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Al Qaeda's former head of operations who was captured in March 2002, aided the investigation, he said. American officials say they believe that Mr. Mohammed was the person who actually killed Mr. Pearl.'

Further reading 
 Lévy, Bernard-Henri, Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, Melville House Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0-9718659-4-9
 Pearl, Daniel, At Home in the World: Collected Writings from the Wall Street Journal, New York: Free Press, June 2002. ISBN 0-7432-4317-X
 Pearl, Mariane, and Sarah Crichton, A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl, New York: Scribner, 2003. ISBN 0-7432-4442-7
 Pearl, Ruth and Judea, eds. I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl . Jewish Lights Pub., January 2004. ISBN 1-58023-183-7.

Pranala luar 

 The Daniel Pearl Foundation 
 Rewards for Justice Daniel Pearl Page 
 South Asian Journalists Association Roundup 
 Wall Street Journal selection of stories by Daniel Pearl
 Daniel Pearl International Journalism Institute, IDC Herzliya 
 Daniel Pearl Berkshire Scholarship 
 DANIEL PEARL AWARD - Ecole de journalisme de Sciences Po 
 

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