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...Daniel Pearl made his name at the Wall Street Journal writing "A-heads," those quirky and colorful feature articles that run down the middle of the paper's front page, and in a macabre way his own story might have appealed...
...Daniel Pearl...
...this would be material for that central column, but for the fact Daniel Pearl, whose wife, Marianne, is pregnant with their first child, is being held somewhere in Karachi, Pakistan, with a gun to his head. By kidnappers who do not appear to know what they are doing. Pearl's old boss scoffs at the idea he was working for anybody but his editors - "Of all the reporters who worked in the Washington bureau he had the most jaundiced view of government," Jill Abramson told the New York Times. This is a journalist - a journalist in deep trouble...
...Pearl's abduction may be part of the fallout from the war in Afghanistan. The widespread rage that was predicted on the streets of Pakistan when the U.S. launched its military campaign did not materialize. But perhaps we're now starting to see some of that sentiment expressed in a more dispersed, although potentially even more dangerous...
...Nobody's really sure when the deadline expires. It was stipulated in an email message that Pearl would be killed in 24 hours, but the message didn't specify a time at which that period would expire. So it's a little complicated...