Pearl’s killers failed to spread fear and hate: widow
ISLAMABAD- The widow of slain US reporter Daniel Pearl said on Wednesday the people who killed her husband in Pakistan were trying to spread hatred and terror in the West, but failed to cow her.
“I think they did it because they’re launching some kind of campaign,” Mariane Pearl, who will give birth to their first child in about a month, told CNN’s Larry King Live. “They did it for different reasons, one is political, to put an obstacle to Musharraf’s alliance with western countries.”
“They want to send a message to the West: ‘Beware, we’re ready to do anything, leave our country.’ They want hatred to be stronger, so people don’t go to the East… they want fear.” Mariane said Sunday’s attack on the church in Islamabad, and the upswing in sectarian killings here in recent weeks, were part of the same scourge of political violence. “The same terrorists are trying to destroy the civil society,” she said.
Mariane, a French journalist who was staying in Karachi at the time, said her own message to the killers was that they failed in their goals. “These people have become the shame of the world. As far as I’m concerned they haven’t achieved their goal at all, which was to perpetrate fear, to paralyse me. It didn’t work and it didn’t work on Danny, and that’s where I get my strength and I hope it’s not going to work on the people watching tonight.”
Source: The News
Date:3/21/2002
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