Last week, the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, abducted in Pakistan in late January, was confirmed.
A short video tape surfaced showing Pearl speaking to his captors before his throat was cut and his severed head was displayed for the camera. His murderers threatened that Pearl's death was only the beginning - and that Americans are no longer safe.
Pearl dedicated his life to helping to bring civilizations together, but his death came at the hands of people who do not understand what "civilization" means. The militant captors who took his life believed Pearl to be a spy, when in fact Pearl was merely a journalist performing his honorable duty in this terrible, confusing conflict.
Though not spies, journalists do embody exactly what our enemies want to destroy - freedom. The noble charge of a journalist is to uphold the freedom of access to information. As these murderers are rounded up and punished for their senseless acts of war on innocent Americans, including journalists like Pearl, we journalists pray justice will be delivered soon and that more will not suffer the same acts of hatred on those who fight for and support our freedoms.
In this, a war in which the death toll to date has been almost entirely journalists and innocent Americans, the true casualty, however, is still peace - to those who know what "peace" means.
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