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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.
A month after Pearl disappeared, a graphic video showing his throat being cut was delivered to the American consulate in Karachi.
The revelations were reported in the Pakistani media as police exhumed a highly decomposed body, which they suspect to be that of Pearl.
Four men, including Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Sheikh Omar Saeed, are facing trial for the abduction and murder of Pearl.
According to the police, the three men, who led them to the body suspected to be that of Pearl, said during interrogation that The Wall Street Journal's Mumbai-based correspondent was driven to a house in Orangi town soon after he was abducted on January 23 and killed seven days later.
The place where he was buried reportedly belonged to Al Rashid Trust, an outfit banned by the US for its links with Osama bin Laden.
PTI
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