
It was an event that shocked the world. This is the story you haven't heard.
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- Dan Futterman
- Angelina Jolie
- Archie Panjabi
- Mohammed Afzal
- Mushtaq Khan
- Daud Khan
- Telal Saeed
- Arif Khan
- Tipu Taheer
- Amit Dhawan
- Saira Nasir Khan
- Aliya Khan
- Sarah Mone
- Bushra Parwani
- Zafar Karachiwala
- Danish Iqubal
- Ali Tejani
- Azfar Ali
- Ahmed Alauddin Jamal
- Denis O'Hare
- Perrine Moran
- Jeffry Kaplow
- Ishaque Ahmed
- Alyy Khan
- Irrfan Khan
- Adnan Siddiqui
- Shah Murad Aliani
- Imran Paracha
- Imran Patel
- Jean-Jacques Scaerou
- Veronique Darleguy
- Will Patton
- Jillian Armenante
- Demetri Goritsas
- Zachary Coffin
- Sajid Hasan
- Farooq Khan
- Gary Wilmes
- Mikail Lotia
- Baba Shaikh
- Amy Shindler
- William Hoyland
- Bilal Saeed
- Sean Chapman
- Holly Goline
- Amy Rosenthal
- Nour Ayad
- Lynn Blades
- Ikram Bhatti
- Azdin Zaman
- Taj Khan
- Hasan Ali
- Naeem Sogay
- Sujata Humane
- Sayed Masood
- Imran Hasnee
- Inder Misra
- Chad Chenouga
- Mike Rosen
- Jenni Lee
- Elizabeth Dannheim
- Tom Spencer
- Qasim Iqbal
- Fabienne Khaldi
- Gigi Ledron
- Aimee Matimbia
- Harvesp Viraf Chiniwala
- Nassim Benbrik
- Michelle Brew
- Pattie James
- Francois Larosa
- Pervez Musharraf
- Colin Powell
- Gary Teague
- Ned Yousef
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Mariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband, Daniel, when he goes missing in Pakistan.
On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined.
Daniel Pearl was born of Jewish parents. His grandfather has a street named after him in Israel (Chaim Pearl St.). He fell in love with a Cuban-American, Marianne, and got married. One the places they chose for their honeymoon was Mumbai, India. Both worked as journalists with the Wall Street Journal. They were among the thousands of reporters who headed to Afghanistan after September 11, 2001. After spending considerable time there, with Marianne visibly pregnant, they went to Pakistan, the country that on one hand was allied with the U.S. for its "war against terrorism," and on the other hand was responsible for the creation of Taliban and hosting training camps for Al Qaeda. The two hook up with fellow journalist Asra Nomani of Indian descent. When Daniel goes off to interview Sheikh Gilani and does not return nor answer his cell phone, a frantic Marianne asks for assistance, which comes initially from Pakistan's CID Chief Javed Habib, then the FBI and American embassy personnel. What results is media frenzy, the locals blaming the Mosaad for the September 11 attacks, as nearly 4000 Jews did not show up for work that day; that Daniel was CIA/Mosaad Agent, and that Asra was an Indian spy. The Pakistani Interior Minister went on record to criticize Daniel for probing into unknown territory, not keeping his Jewish background secret, and blaming his disappearance on Indian spies, while the western media quickly announced his death even though the deceased was an Iranian student. Watch what happens when investigations lead to the discovery of a camcorder which may provide the last and perhaps the only clue to the whereabouts of this missing journalist.