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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/20/AR2011012000057.html
Khalid Sheik Mohammed Killed U.S. Journalist Daniel Pearl, Report Finds
(Washington Post) Peter Finn - A recently completed investigation of the killing of Daniel Pearl in Pakistan nine years ago makes public new evidence that senior al-Qaeda operative Khalid Sheik Mohammed - the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks - executed the Wall Street Journal reporter. Mohammed said at a military hearing in 2007 that he killed Pearl. According to the new report, published in conjunction with the Center for Public Integrity, U.S. officials have concluded that vascular technology, or vein matching, shows that the hand of the unseen man who killed Pearl on video is that of Mohammed. The report said that 27 men, including guards and drivers, played a part in the kidnapping and murder, and that 14 remain free in Pakistan.