Al Qaeda's 9/11 mastermind killed Daniel Pearl

Khalid Sheik Mohammed, a top Al Qaeda leader and 9/11 attack mastermind, killed US journalist Daniel Pearl and even re-staged the killing by decapitating his victim so that it could be filmed for propaganda, a new report says.Sheik Mohammed, who is being held at the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, said at a military hearing in 2007 that he killed Pearl, the Washington Post reported Thursday.According to the new report, prepared by faculty members and students at Georgetown University, US officials have concluded that vascular technology, or vein matching, shows that the hand of the unseen man who killed the Wall Street Journal reporter on video is that of Sheik Mohammed.
Pearl was kidnapped Jan 23, 2002, while investigating alleged connections between a radical Pakistani cleric and Richard Reid, who had attempted to detonate a bomb hidden in his shoe on a transatlantic flight in December 2001.
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