The family of slain journalist Daniel Pearl said the Pakistani Supreme Court judges who ruled to free his killers last week harbor anti-American bias associated with conspiracy theories around Pearl’s death.
Pearl’s father, Judea Pearl, told the Forward that the family believes two members of the three-judge panel that voted to free Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh are “anti-U.S.,” a sentiment that Pearl said was associated with a belief that the United States fabricated his son’s murder.
Daniel Pearl was a Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped by terrorists and beheaded while on assignment in Karachi in 2002. Pearl’s Jewish faith is widely believed to have played in a role in his murder.
Pearl’s family in ‘complete shock’ as the Islamist terrorist who beheaded the Jewish Wall Street Journal
reporter is allowed to walk free.
By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel
The family of murdered American journalist Daniel Pearl was in “complete shock” Thursday after Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the release of the Islamist terrorist who beheaded the Jewish journalist, the
Wall Street Journal reported.
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was convicted of the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Pearl, a reporter for the
Wall Street Journal, but was ordered released by a panel of three judges in the Islamic country.
The court decision was “effectively clearing him of wrongdoing in the case,” the paper reported, upholding a lower court ruling that overturned Sheikh’s kidnapping, terrorism and murder convictions. Sheikh has spent the last 18 years in prison for the crimes and the judges ordered him released from jail immediately, but Pakistani authorities have kept him b