{"id":1296,"date":"2011-01-20T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2011-01-21T17:15:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T00:15:18","slug":"the-truth-left-behind-the-debut-of-the-pearl-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"The Truth Left Behind-The Debut of the Pearl Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/01\/20\/AR2011012000057.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1297\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-01-20 at 12.16.38 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Screen-shot-2011-01-20-at-12.16.38-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Screen-shot-2011-01-20-at-12.16.38-PM.png 619w, https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Screen-shot-2011-01-20-at-12.16.38-PM-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a>Washington D.C.-<\/strong> This morning the Pearl Project- an investigation into the murder of WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan nine years ago-debuts today and I&#8217;m proud to say it received top billing on today&#8217;s Washington Post homepage. I worked on the investigation at its outset in February and March of 2008 in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan. \u00a0The project was produced by a group of 32 students and two professional correspondents at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetown.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Georgetown University<\/a> in conjunction with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicintegrity.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Public Integrity<\/a>. The report in its entirety can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/treesaver.publicintegrity.org\/daniel_pearl\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Jane Perlez has a piece in today&#8217;s New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/21\/world\/asia\/21pearl.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and Ben Farmer from The Telegraph has a piece datelined from Kabul <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/afghanistan\/8271845\/Daniel-Pearl-was-beheaded-by-911-mastermind.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The investigation was run by Asra Q. Nomani and Barbara Feinman Todd and again, I&#8217;m happy to have had the opportunity to be a part of it. Additionally, Nomani has a piece on the Daily Beast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2011-01-20\/daniel-pearl-murder-pearl-project-investigation-reveals-new-details-\/?cid=hp:mainpromo7\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and Bloomberg&#8217;s Tony Cappacio and Flavia Krause-Jackson have a piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-01-20\/al-qaeda-saw-daniel-pearl-kidnapping-a-target-of-opportunity-study-says.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1299\" style=\"width: 563px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Asra_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1299\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1299  \" title=\"Asra_1\" src=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Asra_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Asra_1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Asra_1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Asra_1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Journalist Asra Nomani presents the findings of the Pearl Project at the National Press Club in Washington. \u00a92011 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1304\" style=\"width: 563px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Pearl-chart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1304\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1304 \" title=\"Pearl chart\" src=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Pearl-chart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Pearl-chart.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Pearl-chart-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Pearl-chart-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A chart created by the Pearl Project depicting the interrelationship between the kidnappers and their associates. \u00a92011 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington D.C.- This morning the Pearl Project- an investigation into the murder of WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan nine years ago-debuts today and I&#8217;m proud to say it received top billing on today&#8217;s Washington Post homepage. I worked on&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=1296\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,4],"tags":[452,451,454,456,444,455,450,447,446,449,448,94,453,445],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-181","category-pakistan","tag-452","tag-asra-nomani","tag-barbara-feinman-todd","tag-center-for-public-integrity","tag-daniel-pearl","tag-derek-flood","tag-georgetown","tag-khalid-sheikh-muhammed","tag-ksm","tag-lashkar-e-jhangvi","tag-lej","tag-national-press-club","tag-richard-reid","tag-wsj"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Truth Left Behind-The Debut of the Pearl Project - The War Diaries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=1296\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Truth Left Behind-The Debut of the Pearl Project - The War Diaries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington D.C.- This morning the Pearl Project- an investigation into the murder of WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan nine years ago-debuts today and I&#8217;m proud to say it received top billing on today&#8217;s Washington Post homepage. 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