Daniel Pearl's family hails Pakistani arrest of Qari Abdul Hayee

[The Straight Story]

THE FAMILY of slain US journalist Daniel Pearl have welcomed the arrest in Pakistan of a former leader of a banned militant outfit allegedly involved in his 2002 murder.

Qari Abdul Hayee, popularly known as Asadullah and from Karachi's eastern Gulshan-e-Iqbal neighborhood, was detained in a raid on his hideout on Sunday, according to a spokesman for Pakistan's Rangers paramilitary force.

Ruth and Judea Pearl, who live in the Los Angeles area, hailed the news, in a statement issued through the New York-based Daniel Pearl Foundation.

"We are gratified with this latest arrest and hope that justice will be served in a timely manner on all those who were involved in the abduction and murder of our son, Danny," they said.

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2. I was shocked, years after Daniel Pearl's murder, to learn that he was the son of Judea Pearl

.. I spent a lot of my grad school years dabbling in Bayesian networks and belief propagation and mathematical thingies .. so Judea Pearl was a big part of my life. His technique, Pearl's algorithm, is the backbone of updating beliefs in Bayesian networks - they are used in many machine learning applications - including my own companies software ..

so in some ways - I felt this loss more deeply than I normally would.