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Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was a journalist for The Wall Street Journal with American and Israeli citizenship. He was kidnapped by terrorists and later murdered in Pakistan.[1][2][3]
Pearl was kidnapped while working as the South Asia Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, based in Mumbai, India. He had gone to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between British citizen Richard Reid (known as the "shoe bomber") and Al-Qaeda. Pearl was killed by his captors.[4][5]
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.[1][6] In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a member of Al-Qaeda, claimed that he had personally beheaded Pearl.[2][7][8] Researchers have also connected Al-Qaeda member Saif al-Adel with the kidnapping.[3] The Daniel Pearl Foundation was formed in 2002 in memory of Pearl, to promote the ideals that inspired his life and work. The Foundation works domestically and internationally to promote cross-cultural dialogue and understanding, to counter cultural and religious intolerance, to cultivate responsible and balanced journalism, and to inspire unity and friendship through music.[9]
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Richard Colvin Reid (born 12 August 1973), also known as the Shoe Bomber, is a British terrorist arrested as the prime suspect who attempted to detonate an explosive device packed into his shoes he was wearing, while on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami on December 22, 2001. Born to a father who was a career criminal, Reid converted to Islam as a young man in prison after years as a petty criminal. Later he became radicalised and went to Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he trained and became a member of al-Qaeda.
Conspirators
Main article: Saajid Badat
Although Reid had insisted that he had acted alone and had built the bombs himself, forensic evidence included material from another person.[23] In 2005, a British man, Saajid Badat from Gloucester, England, admitted that he had conspired with Richard Reid and a Tunisian man (Nizar Trabelsi, who is in jail in Belgium), in a plot to blow up two airliners bound for the United States, using their shoe bombs.[28] Badat has said that he had been instructed to board a flight from Amsterdam to the United States. Badat never boarded and withdrew from his part of the conspiracy. Badat did not warn criminal or aviation authorities about Reid.
Badat confessed immediately after being arrested by the British police. The detonator cord in Badat's bomb was found by experts to be an exact match for the cord on Reid's bomb,[29] and their explosive chemicals were essentially identical.[28] He had received the bomb-making materials from an Arab in Afghanistan. Badat was sentenced to 13 years in prison by a British judge and has since been released.[29]
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Badat gave the shoe bomb to Malaysian terrorist group
Saajid Badat also gave evidence (via video-link from his hiding secret place in UK) in March 2014 at the trial in New York of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith (Osama bin Laden's son-in-law), during which he testified that instructions were given to him during his time in Afghanistan (2001) to give shoe bomb to a group of 4 to 5 Malaysian terrorists, one of them the pilot. And Badat provided them one of his own shoe bomb.[7] Badat and Malaysian terrorists discussed the possibility that the cockpit door in airliner might be locked: "So I said: 'How about I give you one of my bombs to open a cockpit door?'"
One possible target of Malaysian terrorist plot (masterminded by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) would be the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the world's tallest buildings from 1998 until 2004. These Malaysian Islamist's connections with Badat and Al-Qaeda were uncovered just a few days after MH370 disappearance. The link was spotted by British media on 15 March 2014.[7] This idea were discussed later in a few newspaper but only until 19 March 2014.[8][9][10][11]
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