Posted on 02/22/2002 6:35:12 AM PST by henbane
Siddharth Srivastava
Times News Network
Friday,February 22, 2002 2:32:51 PM
NEW DELHI: The brutal way in which WSJ journalist Daniel Pearl was murdered is a clear indication of the involvement of the terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed, which is headed by Masood Azhar and Omar Sheikh, say senior security officials with the Intelligence Bureau.
Pearl's throat was slit from behind by his abductors and, going by media reports, he was subsequently beheaded.
This is similar to the manner which 27-year-old Norwegian Hans Ostro was beheaded by Al Faran terrorists in July 1995 and the way Rupen Katyal, one of the passengers in the hijacked Indian Airlines aircraft IC 814 was killed in December 1999.
That the Al Faran was a front of the Jaish—which, at that time, was called the Harkat-ul-Ansar—was confirmed when the kidnappers demanded the release of Azhar, who was incarcerated in an Indian jail at that time.
The Al Faran had kidnapped Ostro in Pahalgam, Jammu & Kashmir, along with five other foreigners.
The Narasimha Rao government in 1995 did not give in to the demands of the hijackers. Ostro's body was subsequently found beheaded with 'Al Faran' engraved on his body.
The hijackers of IC 814 too demanded the release of Azhar, and this time, the Atal Behari Vajpayee government gave in due to the pressure exerted by the families of the hostages. During the course of the hijack, Katyal's throat too was slit from behind and he bled to death.
According to officials, the similarity in the killing of Pearl, Ostro and Katyal indicates that the terrorists have been trained in a similar manner and, therefore, belong to the same outfit.
"One of the six foreigners kidnapped by the Al Faran in 1995, an American John Childs who managed to escape from captivity said that the terrorists used psychological torture against them. One of the means was slitting the throat of a sheep in front of the hostages," says an official.
Similaties have already been drawn between an earlier kidnapping of four foreign citizens in India and Pearl's abduction. Sheikh [Omar] is the prime suspect in the abduction.
The pictures of Pearl that were earlier released to the media had shown him handcuffed with newspaper cuttings in the background.
This was similar to the pictures of hostages that were released by Sheikh in India. Sheikh too had demanded the release of Azhar. The four hostages, however were lucky to be rescued after a shoot-out with the security forces.
Yea I heard that .. it was while they were saying about telling the truth on how Pearl died .. does the public need to know that he was STABBED to death
UNBELIEVABLE
Don't forget the part about burying them all wrapped in pigskin, or bacon, or whatever the hell works and is easiest to get. That would be guaranteed to strike terror into their miserable dark hearts, more than anything else... Make sure every last damn one of them knows it's going to happen to them.
Katyal and his wife were returning from their honeymoon in Nepal when their plane was hijacked. He was stabbed to death after he reportedly refused hijackers' demands to wear a blindfold.
News Desk adds: Sources said the video tape received by the US Consulate a few days ago showed Pearl interviewing some one when an unidentified person pulled his head back from the hair and severed his head with a knife. The consulate was trying to establish veracity of the tape for the last few days.
Yeah, if they don't "escape" like bin Laden. Otherwise, I have to agree the justice would be swifter in Pakistan.
Sorry--guess I assumed the two details in the article were common knowledge by this time. I'll remember your injunction should such details arise in the future--and they probably will.
Meanwhile, Green Hornet's description in #7--sourced to the Bob Grant show--is deeply disturbing and bears a remarkable similarity to the events that took place on the scaffold when Marie Antoinette was executed.
DECAPITATION AS A MEANS OF GENOCIDE OVER THE SERBS IN THE FORMER BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINAThe magazine "Novi voks" published in Sarajevo promoted the most extreme Moslem stances and openly called for genocide of the Serbian people. Thus in its October 1991 issue No.3, on page 40, in a regular feature called "Documents", "Novi voks" published an article entitled "What (is to be done) with the Serbs in the Moslem Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina", which, inter alia, states the following |
I wouldn't. I'd want him to think about it for a long time...
Fox and Friends reported the beheading. I heard it.
If this was seen on a Russian site, I agree. I am still sick thinking about it. It was awful! The Moslems who did this were savages, totally EVIL!
Yes...
This is supposed to have been the scientist Lavoisier, who was guillotined. I don't think it's clear if this particular story is true or apocryphal. But there are apparently many anecdotes from the French Revolution regarding continued consciousness for several seconds after a beheading.
I believe the media should state the true method of Pearl's killing. The American public should know the truth. All we have now are rumors. They should be confirmed or, if false, the true method should be stated.
However, the pictures should not be broadcast. Nor should similar such pictures be placed on FR; post a link if you must. We're entitled to the facts, but we're also entitled not to subjected to the grisliest of images. (Respect for the family also says that the pictures should not be made public.)
I know the circumstances are a little different, but we did sort of demand the extradition of UBL from Afghanistan, and you see the results of their failure to comply.
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