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Official: 9/11 Mastermind Killed Reporter Pearl
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
U.S. authorities now believe it was
Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who slit the throat
of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped
and murdered in Pakistan early last year, a U.S. official said
on Tuesday.
"That is our current belief," the official told Reuters on
condition of anonymity. "We have come to that belief over a
period of time."
The official declined to reveal what information led U.S.
authorities to come to that conclusion.
Mohammed is suspected of being the chief planner of the
Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked plane attacks on the World Trade
Center and Pentagon (news - web sites) that killed about 3,000 people.
He was captured in Pakistan in March and held at an
undisclosed location where American authorities have
interrogated him.
Pearl disappeared in Karachi in January 2002 while
investigating a story on Islamic extremists. He was later found
murdered and a videotape showed a man, whose face was not
shown, slitting Pearl's throat with a knife.
Reports from the region had previously said Mohammed was
suspected of killing Pearl, but now U.S. authorities are also
concurring in that belief.
"We didn't know one way or the other, our government has
subsequently come to the conclusion that what they were saying
was correct," the U.S. official said.
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