(7 Aug 2002)
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Karachi August 07 2002
1. Police ambulance arrives at Edhi Foundation mortuary
2. Soldier
3. Pearl's coffin with flowers on it
4. Sign with Pearl's name on it (please note the name "Daniel" is misspelt )
5. Wreath on coffin
6. Media outside
7. Pearl's coffin is brought out of the mortuary
8. Coffin is placed in Edhi Foundation van
9. Media filming coffin inside van
10. Van drives off with police escort
11. Soldiers
12. Ambulance and police escort drive to airport
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Faisal Edhi, Edhi mortuary official:
"This body was given to Edhi Foundation on 16 May, after a series of test, different tests... they have indicated that this is Daniel Pearl's body and now, today, 7th of August we are handing over this body to American consulate, officials of the American consulate and this body is going to America by air."
15. American consulate official walks through airport with police
16. Convoy at airport
17. Security gate is opened by police
18. Ambulance at airport goes through security gate
AP Stills
19. Photo of Pearl before kidnapping
20. Pearl in captivity holding up newspaper
21. Daniel Pearl in chains in captivity with gun being held to his head
APTN
Gadap, south Karachi, May 17, 2002
22. Top shot of wall of garden where body, believed to be that of Daniel Pearl, was discovered in shallow grave
23. Shot over wall looking down on forensic officials examining body, covered by yellow sheet
Karachi, March 29, 2002
24. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (commonly known as Sheikh Omar), chief suspect in Pearl kidnapping and murder
Karachi, February 12, 2002
25. Three suspects arrested in connection with kidnapping being led, with heads covered, into court by armed police
Hyderabad, July 10, 2002
26. Prison sign, pull out to wide of prison where trial took place
STORYLINE:
More than six months after his abduction, the body of murdered Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl was taken on Wednesday to Karachi's airport for a flight to the United States.
The body was transferred in an oak casket, covered with red flowers, from a mortuary at the Edhi Foundation, a Pakistani relief organisation, to the airport by police convoy.
At the airport, the casket was moved to a restricted area accompanied by several American and Pakistani officials waiting for the flight.
US diplomats in Islamabad declined to give any details or say when Pearl's body would leave Karachi, citing the family's desire for privacy.
Pearl was kidnapped in January in Karachi while working on a story about links between Pakistani Islamic extremists and Richard Reid, who was arrested in December on a flight from Paris to Miami with explosives in his shoes.
A few days later, e-mails were received by western and Pakistani news organisations from the previously unknown National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty announcing Pearl's kidnapping.
In February, a videotape given to American diplomats in Karachi confirmed Pearl was dead. A body found in May in a shallow grave in Karachi was later identified through DNA tests as Pearl's.
Last month, four men, including British-born militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, were convicted of the kidnap-slaying.
Saeed was sentenced to death by hanging and the others received life sentences.
All have filed appeals and seven others are being sought in the case.
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