Saturday, February 10, 2007
Saturday and Sunday, February 10th and 11th at 8 P.M. ET (also 11 P.M. and 2 A.M.) on CNN:
The Journalist and The Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl and Omar Sheikh were both highly educated individuals from privileged backgrounds who saw the world very differently. Pearl was a humanist who became an accomplished journalist and spent most of his career reporting from the Muslim world as part of a quest to promote cross-cultural understanding. Sheikh was radicalized by events that he regarded as the global persecution of Muslims, and became an Islamic militant who chose a deeply violent method to achieve what he believed in. After 9/11, their paths crossed in Pakistan, with tragic consequences.