Daniel Pearl's widow seeks compensation from 9\/11 fund

The widow of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl, who was killed in Pakistan by Islamic extremists, has been denied her request for compensation from the 9/11 Terror Victims Fund, CNN reports. Mariana Pearl filed a formal request on the grounds that her husband was the victim of terrorists associated with al-Qaeda. He was abducted while studying the extremist movements in Pakistan. Mariana Pearl is sure that he was killed in order to intimidate. The fund administrator turned her down. Now she has filed a request through the US Congress.

It is not ruled out that a law will soon be adopted that will give the right to compensation from the 9/11 fund to the relatives of all victims of bin Laden's network.

Daniel Pearl, 38, was kidnapped in Pakistan in January 2002. In the spring, the American diplomatic mission in Karachi received a video recording of his interrogation and murder: someone's hand cut the journalist's throat. In May, his body was found in a wasteland. As a result of the investigation, it turned out that some extremists had kidnapped Pearl, and others had killed him. After the death of the journalist, his son Adam was born.

Some relatives of those who died in the WTC towers note that Daniel Pearl deliberately went to Pakistan and knew what he was risking when he established contacts among extremists, while their loved ones were unaware of the danger that threatened them on September 11th.