Family of Daniel Pearl welcomes suspected kidnapper’s arrest
Posted By richards on March 19, 2013
The family of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl has welcomed the arrest of a man in Pakistan allegedly involved in his brutal 2002 beheading.
Pakistans Inter Services Public Relations Directorate on Monday confirmed the arrest of Qari Abdul Hayee, of Karachi,NBC reported.
Pearls parents, Judea and Ruth Pearl,told the pressMonday:
We are gratified with this latest arrest and hope that justice will be served in a timely manner on all of those who were involved in the abduction and murder of our son, Danny.
Hayee, believed to have arranged Pearls kidnapping, was detained in a raid on a hideout,Agence France-Presse quoteda spokesman for Pakistans Rangers paramilitary force as saying.
ABC News notedthat self-described 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed in 2007 to having killed Pearl.
However, Mohammed detained at Guantanamo Bay has never been charged with the crime.
Pearl, 38, was researching a story about Islamist militants and so-called shoe bomber Richard Reid for the Journal when he was abducted and beheaded in January 2002. A group called the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistans Sovereignty claimed responsibility for Pearls abduction.
A graphic video of his decapitation was delivered to US officials in Karachi nearly a month later, and eventually posted online.
Amovie about his murder, A Mighty Heart, came out in 2007, with Angelina Jolie playing Pearls pregnant wife, Mariane.
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Family of Daniel Pearl welcomes suspected kidnapper’s arrest
