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Events on Friday 1 February 2002 1
2002Murder of Daniel PearlWall Street Journal reporter kidnapped and killed in PakistanDaniel Pearl, the South Asia bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, was abducted in Karachi on 23 January 2002 while researching Islamist militant networks. He was held for a week and then beheaded by his captors, who released a video of the killing in February. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed later admitted carrying out the murder.