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...lives to cover extreme situations in faraway places and report the truth, and the best in the room will get a gleam in their eyes - a little ignition of trench-coat wanderlust, their minds flickering in black and white for a moment, a few frames of '30s movies. Daniel Pearl, I gather, had the gleam. A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist. Long ago, the novelist and journalist John Hersey wrote in a sketch of Henry Luce, "He was amazed and delighted to learn whatever he had not known before." Curiosity...
...Noted "Our country shouldn't be catering to America's needs." AHMED OMAR SAEED SHEIKH, Pakistan-based radical, who admits to kidnapping Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, explaining his motivation...
PAKISTAN Death of a Journalist The U.S. State Department announced it had video evidence that kidnapped U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl had been murdered. Pakistan's President Musharraf vowed to hunt down his killers. President Bush said such crimes strengthened U.S. resolve to fight terrorism. Earlier in the week the Administration adopted a new policy on U.S. citizens kidnapped overseas, allowing for direct intervention. Pearl was abducted Jan. 23 in Karachi by a group calling itself the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty...
...media story, of course, the Pearl saga had the added hook - much like the anthrax letter to Tom Brokaw - of being about one of our own. Pearl's boss, Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger, pleaded with the group to at least restore Pearl to the role that led him to the Village restaurant the night of Jan. 22 - "View Danny as a messenger," Steiger wrote - and that is what shakes journalists most about the story. Hotspot reporters know the risks, but they're also used to thinking that what they do for a living, namely, tell their stories...
...Daniel Pearl's case, that assumption proved tragically incorrect. Thursday the Wall Street Journal confirmed that Pearl had indeed been killed by his captors. All journalists will mourn him as a courageous colleague whose story has reminded us that the pursuit of truth is sometimes no protection in a dangerous world...