You haven't been forgotten...
Hip-hop band Outkast mentions Daniel in the song "War":
on the Operation Anaconda - ask yourself
was it full of bleeps and blunders, did they ever find Osama?
And why in the f**k did Daniel Pearl have to pay the price
for his life and his wife plead twice?
On January 23, 2002, on his way to an interview with a supposed terrorist leader, Pearl was kidnapped by a militant group calling itself The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty. This group claimed Pearl was a spy, and — using the e-mail address kidnapperguy@hotmail.com — sent the United States a range of demands, including the freeing of all Pakistani terror detainees, and the release of a halted U.S. shipment of F-16 fighter jets to the Pakistani government.
The message read:
We give you one more day if America will not meet our demands we will kill Daniel. Then this cycle will continue and no American journalist could enter Pakistan.
Photos of Pearl handcuffed with a gun at his head and holding up a newspaper were attached. There was no response to pleas from Pearl's editor, and from his wife Mariane who was pregnant with their first child.
Nine days later, Pearl was murdered by being beheaded while still alive. Pearl's body was found in a shallow grave in the outskirts of Karachi on May 16. His body was brought home to the United States and he was interred in the Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pearl
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