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Daniel Pearl’s Father: KSM Deserves the Death Penalty
Six months after Khalid Sheikh Mohammed masterminded the 9/11 terror attacks, he beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
‘A new trial should start with a new charge for the murder of my son.’
By Joe Nocera
08.06.24 — International
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On February 1, 2002, terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed beheaded 38-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was in Pakistan for a reporting trip. When the videotape of his execution was released, it showed Pearl acknowledging that he was a Jew, after which a hand holding a knife slit his throat and then severed his head. His body was then …

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Joe Nocera
Joe Nocera is an editor and writer at The Free Press. During his long career in journalism, he has been a columnist at The New York Times, Bloomberg, Esquire, and GQ, the editorial director of Fortune, and a writer at Newsweek, Texas Monthly and The Washington Monthly. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
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