Mohammed: I Killed Daniel Pearl

MARCH 15--After informing the family of late Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, Pentagon officials today released an al-Qaeda leader's account of his 2002 beheading of the journalist. When the Department of Defense yesterday released a transcript of Osama bin Laden deputy Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's statements at a March 10 military hearing, they redacted details of Pearl's murder, for which Mohammed took credit. Today, after Pearl's family members were reportedly given notice, the Pentagon distributed the previously redacted portion of Mohammed's confession (a copy of which you'll find below). In a statement read by a military officer serving as Mohammed's 'personal representative' during the Guantanamo Bay proceeding, Mohammed said that he 'decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew Daniel Pearl.' He added that there were photos on the Internet showing him holding Pearl's decapitated head. (1 page)