US: Pearl listed on Holocaust wall

American journalist Daniel Pearl who was abducted and killed by terrorists is the first non-Holocaust victim to be listed on memorial wall in Flordia

Straits Times
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Daniel Pearl has been added to the 30,000 names on a Holocaust Memorial Wall, in a move to honour the American journalist who was abducted and killed by terrorists in 2002.

Although Pearl and the Jews of the Holocaust were executed by people of different faiths, languages and agendas, there was a common thread of hatred, his father Judea Pearl said as his son's name was unveiled last Sunday.

Daniel Pearl was the first non-Holocaust victim to be listed on the wall in Miami Beach, Florida.

"The forces of barbarity and evil are still active in our world. The Holocaust didn't finish in 1945," the elder Mr Pearl said.

Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal's South Asia bureau chief, was abducted on Jan23, 2002 while working on a story about Islamic militants in Karachi, Pakistan.

The so-called National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and demanding the release of suspected Taleban and Al-Qaeda fighters from US custody.

Pearl's body, with his throat slit, was found months later outside Karachi.

Three Islamic militants are serving life sentences in Pakistan for the killing; a fourth was sentenced to death.

Date Posted: 4/17/2007