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Study ties new al Qaida chief to murder of Daniel Pearl

By REUTERS

MAY 23, 2011 15:01

ISLAMABAD - Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian militant recently appointed interim leader of al Qaida operations, has been linked to the killing of US journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002, US investigators said in a report.

A Wall Street Journal reporter, Pearl was kidnapped in Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi in January 2002 while researching a story on Islamist militants, and was later beheaded.

The findings by investigators of the Pearl Project revealed al-Adel had discussed Pearl's abduction with Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, also known as KSM, the accused mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

"KSM told the FBI that he was pulled into the kidnapping by a high-level leader in al Qaida circles, an Egyptian named Saif al-Adel, who told him to make the kidnapping an al Qaida operation," said the investigators in their report which was published in January.

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