JUSTICE FOR DANIEL PEARL :

UK urges leniency for Pearl killer (CNN, July 15, 2002)

The UK government says it opposes the death sentence handed down to a British-born man convicted in Pakistan for the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

Former London School of Economics student Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, believed to be the mastermind of Pearl's kidnapping death, was convicted on Monday along with three other Islamic radicals of kidnapping for ransom and acts of terror, defence lawyers said.

Daniel Pearl was 38 years old. He left behind a wife and a then unborn son. He was in Pakistan doing his job, nothing more. His murderers videotaped themselves cutting Daniel Pearl's throat. Daniel Pearl's last words were : "My father is a Jew, my mother is a Jew, and I am a Jew". Because he was a Jew and because he was an American these men executed him.
Posted by Orrin Judd at July 15, 2002 7:31 PM