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Pearl's body, in an oak casket covered with red flowers, was flown from Pakistan on a Cathay Pacific flight to Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday, said Lee.
The family intends to hold a private funeral service in the next week.
Pearl, 38, was kidnapped on January 23 in Karachi, while working on a story about links between Pakistani Islamic extremists and Richard C Reid -- a Briton caught on an American domestic flight with an explosive hidden in his shoe -- who studied Islam in Pakistan.
A little-known Pakistani terrorist group -- the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty -- later claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and in February, sent a videotape confirming the killing of the journalist.
Pearl's body, found in May in a shallow grave in Karachi, was identified through DNA tests.
On July 15, an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan sentenced British-born Omar Ahmad Saeed Sheikh to death, and his three Pakistani accomplices to 25 years imprisonment for kidnapping and murdering Pearl.
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