Atlanta Web site still showing video of reporter's killing
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Posted 6:09PM on Sunday, May 26, 2002
ATLANTA - An Atlanta Internet site allows free downloads of video footage of the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, and the company's owner said he has not been asked to remove it from the site. <br>
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The FBI has contacted at least two other sites and asked them to remove the footage. On Saturday, special agent Sandra Carroll of the FBI's field office in Newark, N.J., said most sites contacted have voluntarily removed it. <br>
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An Atlanta company, ConsumptionJunction.com, has made the video available for several days but has not been asked to remove it, site owner Mark Womack said. <br>
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``We found it on some Islamic fundamentalist site,'' he said. <br>
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The video clip shows Pearl's murder and warns of future killings unless Pakistanis are released from a U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. <br>
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Womack said he had received no complaints about the video post but would take it down if anyone asked. <br>
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``I wouldn't feel like dealing with a lawyer,'' he said. <br>
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Carroll said there is no legal prohibition against showing the video but that the Pearl family was considering legal action. <br>
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Pearl disappeared Jan. 23 from outside a restaurant in Karachi, Pakistan, while researching possible links between Pakistani extremists and Richard C. Reid, who was arrested in December on a flight from Paris to Miami with explosives in his shoes. <br>
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A gruesome three-minute video was delivered to U.S. officials in Karachi on Feb. 21 showing Pearl's death.