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Kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter confirmed dead

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  1. RocksMillenium

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    Just to add, now they are saying they have a videotape that confirms he is dead. Just sad news. I wish reporters would stay out of dangerous situations like this, I don't want the news this badly :(:

    http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,46232,00.html

    <b>NEW YORK — Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was taken hostage by Islamic extremists in Pakistan, is now believed to be dead, the newspaper said Thursday.</b>


    <i>"We now believe, based on reports from the U.S. State Department and police officials of the Pakistani province of Sind, that Danny Pearl was killed by his captors. We are heartbroken at his death," Peter Kann, publisher of the Journal, said in a statement.

    "Danny was an outstanding colleague, a great reporter, and a dear friend of many at the Journal," Kann said. "His murder is an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of everything Danny's kidnappers claimed to believe in. They claimed to be Pakistani nationalists, but their actions must surely bring shame to all true Pakistani patriots."

    Pearl was abducted in the port city of Karachi on Jan. 23 after arranging to interview the leader of a radical Muslim faction with purported ties to the Al Qaeda terrorist network and terror suspect Richard C. Reid, arrested in December on a Paris-Miami flight he allegedly boarded with explosives in his shoes.

    The statement, signed by Kann and Journal Managing Editor Paul Steiger, said, "We will, in coming months, find ways, public and private, to celebrate the great work and good works Danny did. But today is a day to grieve.

    "This loss is, of course, most painful for Danny's family, in this country and elsewhere. We ask our colleagues in the press to respect their privacy, and to permit them to grieve undisturbed."

    Pearl reported from the United States, Europe and Asia in a 12-year career with the financial daily. Based in Bombay, India, for the past year as the Journal's bureau chief for South Asia,ism in neighboring Afghanistan.

    The Princeton, N.J., native had worked for newspapers in western Massachusetts and briefly in San Francisco before joining the Journal in Atlanta in 1990. He later reported from Washington, London and Paris — where he wrote about the Middle East — before moving to Asia.

    "The Wall Street Journal is a public institution, but the Pearls are private citizens," the Journal statement said. "We hope also that our colleagues, too, will be permitted some time and space to begin the very difficult process of making peace with this profound loss."

    Pakistani officials said there were indications that Pearl had been lured into a trap by false information.

    In an intensive sweep, Pakistani police seized several suspects, including Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, an Islamic militant who admitted in a court hearing that he had engineered Pearl's abduction to protest Pakistan's alliance with the United States' post-Sept. 11 war on terrorism.

    "Our country shouldn't be catering to America's needs," Sheikh said.

    According to Pakistani authorities, Sheikh, a British-born key figure in an airplane hijacking and hostage incident in 1999, first told them Pearl was alive but later claimed the reporter had been killed in an escape attempt around Jan. 31.</i>
     
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  2. DAROckets

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    It takes a lot of courage to go into these hotbeds and try to bring the people the truth about whats going on...RIP Danny.
     
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  3. AroundTheWorld

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    This is terrible. It makes me sad and angry.
     
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  4. gr8-1

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    Pearl had more courage in his pinkie finger than all of his captors combined.

    Is this act unprecedented? I hope we respond with avengeance.


    RIP Danny.
     
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  5. BobFinn*

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    Imagine there's no heaven
    It's easy if you try
    No hell below us
    Above us only sky
    Imagine all the people
    Living for today...
    Imagine there's no countries
    It isn't hard to do
    Nothing to kill or die for
    And no religion too
    Imagine all the people
    Living life in peace...

    You may say I'm a dreamer
    But I'm not the only one
    I hope someday you'll join us
    And the world will be as one

    Imagine no possessions
    I wonder if you can
    No need for greed or hunger
    A brotherhood of man
    Imagine all the people
    Sharing all the world...

    You may say I'm a dreamer
    But I'm not the only one
    I hope someday you'll join us
    And the world will live as one
     
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  6. treeman

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    Reporters die in warzones all the time (and Pakistan is a warzone for Westerners, whether you realize it or not), but usually when they are kidnapped and/or murdered, it is about money.

    This was just senseless murder. Someone had better pay for this... His wife is pregnant, too. Add another kid who will never know his dad to the list in this war. :mad:
     
    #6 treeman, Feb 21, 2002
  7. MadMax

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    i have to say, i don't want to live anywhere where i don't feel passionate about anything enough to say, "yeah, i'd die for that."
     
    #7 MadMax, Feb 21, 2002
  8. BobFinn*

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    But can you just imagine what it would be like? It only takes a few minutes. Just sit back and Imagine.
     
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  9. treeman

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    They are now saying that they actually taped his execution. What a bunch of bloodthirsty morons... If that tape gets out (and it will), then the only purpose it will serve is to infuriate the entire non-Islamic world... What a bunch of idiots.

    Q8 and boy must be happy, though - one less Jew for them to have to kill...
     
    #9 treeman, Feb 21, 2002
  10. RocksMillenium

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    I'm just waiting for some ghoul to come on here and post that the U.S. had something to do with this. If these monsters were "driven" to this by the U.S., why did they kill the guy instead of truly bargain? These monsters and anybody connected to them have a bullet with their name on it.
     
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  11. boy

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    Enlighten me on where I've said that I'd like to kill Jews or any death makes me happy?

    Infact from what I know he was pretty "Pro-Muslim" and gave a pretty fair picture of the situations.

    I have nothing but prayers for his family.
     
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  12. treeman

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    boy:

    Unlike Q8, you have not come out and said that you're gleeful about the prospect of Israel being destroyed and the Jews massacred, but you have repeatedly expressed your support for Hamas, Hizbollah, and Iran - three entities who seek the destruction of Israel and the murder of the Jews with a passion.

    You've just been smart enough to keep your tone down to a level where you don't draw too much attention... But your sentiments are clear to anyone with a brain.

    BTW, if he wasn't "Pro-Muslim", as you put it, then would you still be praying for his family? Just curious.
     
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  13. boy

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    My opinion about Iran is shared by most of the members of the UN.

    I believe Hizbullah, today, is an army that protected Lebanon when Lebanon had no military.

    I believe Hamas is a reaction to what the Israelis have done to Palestinians. I don't agree with suicide bombings on people in malls. I don't believe those bombings help much. However I think you're being naive if you just lable them as psycho-terrorists who love killing people. I think there are reasons for why they do this. Until we start paying attention, we'll get no where.

    His child will never get to see the father. That is why I would pray for them. His parents will never get to see their son. His wife won't see her husband.

    I usually say what I truly believe. I don't 'word things just right' so no one can accuse me of being anti-semetic. I think Israeli Zionism is a grotesque ideology that shows its face in cases like what occured in Qana in 96. However I myself know a Jew who considers himself a Zionist but also wants a state of Palestine with pretty much every thing I would like it to have. I see websites like Gush-Shalom which give me hope for a peaceful solution. There are hundreds of Israeli peace groups that work to help the Palestinians. There are even Israeli Rabbis who go infront of bulldozers to save homes. I'm highly offended at the notion that I would like all Jews to die and that I would be happy at the murder of a reporter on video tape.
     
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  14. treeman

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    boy:

    What, that Iran is a great democracy? Please. Everyone with a brain knows that their 'democracy' is a sham, and that the mullahs run everything there.

    And BTW, one of their stated goals has been for 23 years and counting to see Israel destroyed. Are you going to sit here and tell me that isn't so?

    Lebanon has had a military for a long time - Hizbollah has just tried to supplant it. And if Hizbollah was just "protecting" Lebanon, then why is it sending operatives into the occupied territories to train Arafat's goons and the Hamas? And why is it still throwing rockets over the border into Israel on a daily basis, when the IDF has already withdrawn?

    Hizbollah's goal is to destroy Israel. The Iranians - who are funding, training, and supplying them - couldn't care less about "protecting" Lebanon.

    Yes, I know that you think they're "freedom fighters". Doesn't matter that they're blowing up babies and shooting senior citizens left and right - their tactics are regrettable, but their goal is admirable, right boy?

    Their stated goal is to destroy Israel. Not to create a Palestinian state. Not to end the settlements or occupation. It is to destroy Israel. And you support them.

    If you're so ******* offended by it, then why do you support at least three groups who have as their stated goals the destruction of Israel???

    Needless to say, I do not believe you.
     
    #14 treeman, Feb 21, 2002
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    If I say the sky is blue will you believe me?
     
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  16. treeman

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    Yes. Unless it's raining, or unless it's nighttime.
     
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  17. DaDakota

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    I pray for this man's family, and for his captors to be strung up and hung in front of the world.

    DaDakota
     
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  18. Ottomaton

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    I think that the greatest statement to what a bunch of out-of-touch-with-reality whackos these guys are is the whacked out ransom demands that these idiots made when they first abducted him.

    Would you want to place your faith in the judgement of these idiots who thought Pearl'd get them:

    1.) The sale of F-16 to Pakastan which were suspended because they were Pakistan's primary nuclear delivery vehicle.

    2.) $2 Million dollars.

    3.) The prisoners in Cuba to be released.

    and

    4.) The release of the Taliban ambasador to Pakistan.


    Question:

    Given the displayed lack of ability to judge things like 'fair value' for Mr. Pearl, do you not begin to question these whackos ability to make reasonable assessments of other things? For instance, their support of the Taliban, their opium-addled world view and their general belief that god wants them to kill people?
     
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  19. treeman

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    Ottomaton:

    They did it to undermine Musharaf.
     
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  20. Cohen

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    Very Sad.

    Prayers.
     
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