Khalid Sheikh slit Pearl’s throat: FBI
Daily Times Monitor
LAHORE: Senior Al Qaeda operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed personally carried out the execution of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, according to an FBI analysis of the video-taped beheading of the journalist, The Sunday Times has reported.
Mohammed, who is believed to have been the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was captured in Pakistan in March 2003.
After boasting to US interrogators that he was behind the abduction and killing of Pearl, FBI agents began analysing the video and concluded that the knife used to slit the 38-year-old American’s throat had been wielded by Mohammed. It was horrific to watch, but there was no doubt that they were the same hands, the British paper quotes a senior FBI official as saying.
At the time of his abduction, it was thought that Pearl was investigating British shoe-bomber Richard Reid. But the disclosure of Mohammed’s involvement suggests that Pearl may have been trailing the Al Qaeda operations chief.
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