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New Report on Daniel Pearl’s Murder Reveals Forensic Analysis of Killer’s Veins

DP After studying the pattern of the veins on his hand, American investigators concluded that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a senior operative for Al Qaeda, wielded the blade that killed Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and executed before a video camera in Pakistan in 2002, according to a new report. The report, “The Truth Left Behind: Inside the Kidnapping and Murder of Daniel Pearl,” by a team of journalists working at Georgetown University who “spent more than three years investigating the roles of 27 men linked to the 2002 kidnapping and murder,” was published online in conjunction with The Center for Public Integrity. The report reveals for the first time that ...