Mystery still surrounds his final days
(NEWSER) - Nearly nine years to the day since he was kidnapped, new details are coming out about the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The Pearl Project has worked for three years to answer the questions that surround his death, and an investigative journalism organization is publishing its report today, notes the Journal . Among the revelations: In order to confirm Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s confession of the murder was valid, US officials used vein analysis to compare his hand to a hand shown in a video of the killing. More»