Al-Qaida terrorist admits killing Pearl

A captured al-Qaida terrorist admitted to killing journalist Daniel Pearl. The Associated Press reported Thursday that suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, speaking at a hearing in a U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, took responsibility for the 2002 decapitation of the Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter. “I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan,” Mohammed said according to notes released Thursday by the Pentagon. Mohammed reportedly admitted to the planning of 31 terrorist plots, including the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, and said that al-Qaida planned to crash planes into Eilat, Israel, using aircraft departing from Saudi Arabia. He also said the group planned to send terrorists to conduct surveillance on
several strategic targets in the Jewish state.