Official: 9/11 Mastermind Killed Reporter Pearl

[TexasStooge]

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 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.

[GalvestonDuck]

WARNING: I'm about to get graphic so if you get queasy easily or don't like a lot of description, skip this.

They failed to mention that he not only slit Pearl's throat, he fully decapitated him. He sliced up and down through his neck as if he were carving a roast. Then he held up Pearl's head by the hair to show it was fully severed from his body. All this was mixed in with some bullcrap propaganda video to show to the anti-US Muslims.

I hope we hang that monster. Only a cold-blooded, evil person could do that to another human being. Kind of makes me doubt the whole OJ thing. Knowing how grotesque it is when a person sustains that type of injury makes me wonder how OJ could seem so stable and "with it" now. He'd have to be pure evil or completely insane.

[TexasStooge]

WARNING: I'm about to get graphic so if you get queasy easily or don't like a lot of description, skip this.

They failed to mention that he not only slit Pearl's throat, he fully decapitated him. He sliced up and down through his neck as if he were carving a roast. Then he held up Pearl's head by the hair to show it was fully severed from his body. All this was mixed in with some bullcrap propaganda video to show to the anti-US Muslims.

I hope we hang that monster. Only a cold-blooded, evil person could do that to another human being. Kind of makes me doubt the whole OJ thing. Knowing how grotesque it is when a person sustains that type of injury makes me wonder how OJ could seem so stable and "with it" now. He'd have to be pure evil or completely insane.