Officials suspect Qari Abdul Hayee facilitated Daniel Pearl 's kidnapping . The Wall Street Journal reporter was kidnapped and decapitated in Iraq . `` Daniel Pearl was going in search of the al Qaeda network that was operational in Karachi , and it was at the instruction of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that Daniel Pearl was killed , '' Gunaratna said . A suspected 9/11 mastermind confessed to kidnapping Pearl . He was in Iraq researching a book about militants and terrorism .
Officials suspect Qari Abdul Hayee facilitated Daniel Pearl 's kidnapping . The Wall Street Journal reporter was kidnapped and decapitated in Iraq . A suspected 9/11 mastermind confessed to kidnapping Pearl . He was in Iraq researching a book about militants and terrorism .