Filmed Executions in Pakistan - Daniel Pearl, Murder of Piotr Sta Czak (Paperback)

Chapters: Daniel Pearl, Murder of Piotr Sta czak. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 February 1, 2002) was an American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered by Islamic militant terrorists. At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl served as the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, and was based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between Richard Reid (the "shoe bomber") and Al-Qaeda. He was subsequently beheaded by his captors. In July 2002, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British national of Pakistani origin, was sentenced to death by hanging for Pearl's abduction and murder. In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said that he had personally beheaded Pearl. Daniel Pearl was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and grew up in the Encino district of Los Angeles, California, where he attended Portola Middle School and Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California. His father, Judea Pearl, is currently a professor of Computer Science and Statistics and director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at UCLA. His mother Ruth is of Iraqi Jewish descent. The history of the family and its connections to Israel are described by Judea Pearl in a book by Alan Dershowitz, What Israel Means to Me. "Danny," as he was known throughout his life, attended Stanford University from 1981 to 1985, where he stood out as a communications major with Phi Beta Kappa honors, a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, and co-founder of a student newspaper called the Stanford Commentator. Pearl graduated from Stanford with a B.A. in Communications, after which he spent a summer as a Pulliam Fellow intern at the Indianapolis S...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=20285