“It was via email that [British-born Pakistani terrorist] Omar Sheikh lured his final victim, [journalist] Daniel Pearl, to his death. The reporter had been promised an interview with Sheikh Mubarik Ali Gilani, of the Islamic Jamaat ul-Fuqra, an Islamist group, believing that Gilani had ties to the ‘shoe bomber,’ Richard Reid. With no prospect of the kidnappers’ demand–the release of Al Qaeda prisoners from Camp X-Ray–being met, Pearl was brutally killed by his captors [on February 1, 2002], his death being captured on video.”
– Rohan Gunaratna, Inside al Qaeda, Page 215