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    Finishing Daniel Pearl's Last Story

    Twelve years ago yesterday, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl drove off for an interview in Karachi, Pakistan and never came back . A month later, the FBI received a video ending with Pearl's killer holding his decapitated head. Pearl's friend and colleague spent years determining who the murderer really was.

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    KCRW placeholderBy Asra Nomani • Dec 9, 2014 • 1 min read

    Twelve years ago yesterday, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl drove off for an interview in Karachi, Pakistan and never came back. A month later, the FBI received a video ending with Pearl's killer holding his decapitated head. Pearl's friend and colleague spent years determining who the murderer really was. Asra Nomani is author of Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam. She's also co-director of the Pearl Project.

    (This segment originally aired on To The Point on January 24, 2014.)

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