A Mighty Heart Page #8

Danny was killed this month.

But also 10 other people

were killed by terrorists

and they were all Pakistani.

So they are suffering

as much as we are, right?

Well, how do you address some

Pakistanis who have sympathies

for militant groups such as those

who killed your husband?

Karachi is in some way

the front line of this battle.

It is not just a group

of extremist Pakistani.

It is a vast and international

network of terrorists.

And wherever there is misery,

they find people

and there is misery, you know,

in lots of parts of the world.

Certainly that may be the case,

but have you seen the videotape

of what they did to your husband?

Have you no decency?

How do you ask me that?

Mariane, I'm...

Thank you for being with us today.

Okay, I think we're done.

-S-a-t-c-h-i.

-Satchi.

-That's okay.

-And a middle name, please, Satchi.

Okay. Excuse me.

I'm sorry. Back, back.

Is there another way out of here?

Yeah, I know another way.

Please follow me.

-Please. Come. This way.

-Okay.

F***ing mob.

-This way, please.

-Here?

Yeah. Sure. Yeah.

Thank you, Kasim. We

appreciate it. Thank you.

It's crazy, they're everywhere.

Pearl is 38 and graduated from Stanford

before beginning a career in journalism.

He joined the Wall Street

Journal in 1990.

That's great.

One more of these.

I just wanted

to say something to everybody.

I want to, I want to thank you

for all of your work and all of your effort

and your kindness

and I know how much you wanted

to find and bring Danny home.

You did not fail, you know?

Danny's dead, but the kidnappers,

their point is to terrorize people, right?

I am not terrorized.

And you can't be terrorized.

I am very grateful to all of you.

Very, very grateful. So thank you.

So please, let's eat.

Everything looks very good. It's great.

This is terrific.

Bye.

Bye. Take care.

Thank you so much. Take care.

-Thanks.

-Bye.

All right. I'll see you.

Oh, my daughter.

You are so beautiful.

In Buddhism there is no god.

The aim of Buddhism

is to draw out all the strength,

courage, wisdom and goodwill.

You make me happy

every time you smile.

We're gonna create

a beautiful world together.

The wine represents joy.

The breaking of the glass

symbolizes the fragility of human joy.

And also the breaking of innocence.

They found Danny's body

cut into 10 pieces.

Nobody told me this.

I learned it in an e-mail

that was attached by accident

to another e-mail sent to me.

I decided that, before Adam is born,

I have to confront everything

that happened to Danny.

He was held in an isolated shack in a

compound on the outskirts of Karachi.

One day, when he was unshackled

to go to the toilet, he tried to escape.

They caught him

and chained him to the engine of a car.

Another time he tried to break loose

when he was walking with his captors.

Once he shouted to a passerby.

Then, one day, probably February 1st,

three men who spoke Arabic

were brought to the compound.

Danny argued with one of them.

Then they turned on the video.

My name is Daniel Pearl.

My father is Jewish.

My mother is Jewish. I'm Jewish.

Maybe they made him say this

but I know he was undefeated

because of the next thing that he says.

Something the kidnappers

could not have known.

In the town of Benei Beraq in Israel

there's a street

called Chaim Pearl Street

which is named

after my great-grandfather

who was

one of the founders of the town.

I force myself to imagine all of it

and when it is over I know

there is nothing that can happen

that I won't have the courage to face.

This film is for Adam.

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