The Journalist and the Jihadi - The Murder of Daniel Pearl
Narrated by CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour, this 80 minute film tracks the parallel lives of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and British-born jihadi Omar Sheikh. Both men were passionate, intelligent individuals from privileged backgrounds, and both were sympathetic to the plight of Muslims around the world, though Pearl was Jewish. With the rise of Islamic militancy in the 1990s, however the two men?s paths diverged; in 2002, those paths collided when Sheikh executed cunning con game that ended in Pearl?s headline-making kidnapping and murder in Pakistan ? and the remorseless Sheikh?s arrest under mysterious circumstances. more
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Recent Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-01-2008
- A must see movie!
This documentary is incredible! People must know the story of this amazing man and his family!
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jan-07-2008
- Daniel Pearl Documentary
As the rating relays, this documentary could not be better in telling Daniel Pearl's story. You get a sense of the person, his achievements, his career, and also what he hoped to accomplish when he willingly put himself in harms way and...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Feb-19-2007
- Common tragedy in uncommon circumstances
The Journalist and the Jihadi isn't as interesting as it deserves to be. The complicated world of Middle East Islam that reporter Daniel Pearl lived to report and died reporting is warped into a background for Pearl's own horrid...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Feb-11-2007
- Consider the Source
My mother grew up in Washington DC. Her father was first a reporter, then a lawyer, a bureaucrat in the FDR administration, and finally a lobbyist who hung out at the National Press Club of which he was a 60-year member. Her word to me...
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Selected Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-01-2008
- A must see movie!
This documentary is incredible! People must know the story of this amazing man and his family!
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Feb-19-2007
- Common tragedy in uncommon circumstances
The Journalist and the Jihadi isn't as interesting as it deserves to be. The complicated world of Middle East Islam that reporter Daniel Pearl lived to report and died reporting is warped into a background for Pearl's own horrid...
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