Pearl's anniversary 'opportunity to fight hatred'

The father of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl said the anniversary of his son’s death should be viewed as an opportunity to fight hatred as well as to mourn.

Judea Pearl spoke at one of several memorial services for his son planned throughout the world. Daniel Pearl was killed one year ago by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan.

Around 200 people attended the service at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in Manhattan.

Larry Ingrassia, Pearl’s former editor at the Wall Street Journal’s London bureau, said at the service that Pearl was passionate about seeking the truth and about “what it was like to be in the shoes of the people who were often dispossessed and powerless”.