Impossible to fathom. The face in this storys photo is WSJ writer Daniel Pearl. Precisely 12 years ago, a man in Pakistan, with a video camera running, drew a knife across the throat of our Wall Street Journal colleague Daniel Pearl & murdered him. Danny—gifted reporter, elegant writer, incurable idealist—was a victim of Islamic extremists who either thought he was an Israeli spy or simply liked the idea of killing an enterprising American journalist...The Wall Street Journal first disclosed a decade ago that the perpetrator had confessed under interrogation, and more than six years ago, he admitted to the crime publicly. Indeed, he seemed quite proud of his act. Yet he has never been tried for the crime, or even charged with it. The confessed murderer is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, also alleged ringleader of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He sits in prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and its unclear when or how he will ever be made to answer for the most horrific death of a journalist on record. And therein lies a tangled tale of the troubled terror-justice system America has attempted to establish after 9/11. Please dear G-d, DO SOMETHING!
Posted on: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:51:31 +0000