An alleged murderer of Daniel Pearl has told interrogators that he slit the US journalist's throat twice because on the first occasion the video camera had failed to catch the shot due to a technical glitch.
"That's why in the video you didn't see the blood oozing out of his neck, I had to work hard to keep the neck together so that it doesn't become obvious in the film that I am slitting an already cut throat," he said. The revelations were reported in the media in Islamabad as Pakistan police exhumed a highly disintegrated and disfigured body which they suspect to be that of Pearl. A month after Pearl disappeared, a graphic video showing his throat being cut was delivered to the American consulate in Karachi. Bureau Report