Summary: (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/images/religion/july-dec05/804islamnomani2.jpg)American journalist Daniel Pearl (http://www.danielpearl.org/about_us/danielpearl_bio.html) was killed in Pakistan in 2002. How did Dannny Pearl die has been a subject of investigation by his friend and colleague Asra Nomani (http://www.asranomani.com/). Called the Pearl Project (http://pearlproject.georgetown.edu/), the goal of the investigation is to find out what really happened to Danny when he left Asra's house in Karachi on January 23rd 2002. Danny was working on a story on the Ameican shoe bomber case Richard Reed and was in Pakistan to follow on some leads. For 5 weeks Asra and Mariane (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/jan-june02/pearl_3-18.html), Danny's wife had no idea what happened to Danny. Supporters of Sheikh Omar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh) claimed to have kidnapped Danny. After 5 weeks of holding out hope tt finally came as a shock when Mariane and Asra discovered the brutal way in which Danny had been killed. The movie A Mighty Heart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mighty_Heart_(film)) captures those tense 5 weeks that Mariane and Asra spent searching for Danny (http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB111634569601635866.html?mod=2_1150_1). The film was adapted from Mariane's book that chronicled how US and Pakistan authorities tried to track Danny's kidnappers. Danny (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pearl) was the South Asia bureau cheif of The Wall Street Journal and was based in Mumbai, India. Asra has worked with The Wall Street Journal and her work has been published in Time and The Washington Post. She currently writes a column for The Daily Beast (http://www.thedailybeast.com/author/asra-q-nomani/). This interview was originally broadcast at Stanford's radio station in October 2009.
