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Daniel Pearl murder investigation a sham, says report

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blockquoteemI decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Mohammed said, according to a Pentagon transcript released nearly four years ago. For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.emblockquotecaption id alignalignleft width184 captionThis photo, showing Daniel Pearl in captivity, was seen throughout the world. Photo NY Daily News img srchttpcdn2b.examiner.comsitesdefaultfilesstyleslargehash71d871d8bbd173b8a1b9c49396408d189c7a.jpg alt width184 height164 captionMore than eight years after the brutal murder of Americanjournalist Daniel Pearl by terrorists, a group of U.S. journalists claim the Pakistani government botched the investigation and prosecutionof the highprofile case.divIna report on their investigation,released yesterday, the journalists claim the convictions of four men for killing theWall Street Journal reporter were possibly a result of a shamshow trial that was held by the government of thenPresident Pervez Musharraf to appease the Bush administration in the wake of theSeptember 11, 2001terrorist attacks.divdivdivdivThe reportreleased by members of ThePearl Project claimsthe men were not evenpresent during Pearls shocking beheading.The report ascertains thatthe four suspectswere convicted of murder because Pakistanilaw enforcement officials purposelyallowed perjured testimony, fabricated evidence and lack of investigative integrity that included ignoringinvestigative aids.divdivdivdivThe Pearl Projectsthreeyearprobealleges thatthe four radicalIslamistsconvictedfor the Pearl murderwere part of theabduction plot, but were not the men directly responsible for the beheading of the kidnapped journalist.divdivdivdivThe Pearl Projects reportalsostates thatforensic evidencesuchas veinmatchingcoincides withthe confession of alQaeda terror chiefKhalid Sheikh Mohammed, the professed mastermind and commanderof the September 11 attacks.divdivAccording toThe Pearl Project report, as many as14 of theradical Muslimsinvolved in abducting andexecuting Pearl in 2002 have never been tried and punished for their heinous crime.divdivAs of nowKhalid Sheikh Mohammed has not been indicted for his role in the Pearl abduction and murder.divI decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Mohammed said, according to a Pentagon transcript released nearly four years ago. For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head.The report describes how FBI and CIAagents used the forensic technique ofveinmatching to compare the hand of theexecutioner with a photo ofalQaedas number three commandershand.According to the FBIs report, Mohammed toldinterrogators that an alQaeda commandersuggested he takeover custody ofPearl fromthe original abductors.Daniel Pearl wascaptured while traveling to meet a man he was told was a radical imam with information on the terrorist organization responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon building in Washington, DC.Its believes thatmore than two dozen Islamic terrorists were involvedin Pearls kidnapping and death.At least three different radical Islamicgroups were involved in the plot, includingterrorists led by the BritishPakistani Sheikh Omarand agang ofterrorists led by Khalid SheikhMohammed, according to the report.The threeyear Pearl Project investigationwasconducted by faculty membersand journalismstudents at Georgetown University in Washington. It was releasedyesterday by the Center for Public Integrity.Full report available a relnofollow hrefhttptreesaver.publicintegrity.orgdanielpearlhttptreesaver.publicintegrity.orgdanielpearla