Daniel Pearl 'refused to be sedated before his throat was cut'

The Sunday Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5/9/04 | Massoud Ansari

[Arpege92]

Too bad this can't be printed across every newspaper in this country and abroad!

[cajungirl]

If the media show pics and videos of our "torture" of the jailed persons, this video as well as the 911 videos of the people jumping and the aftermath should be shown.

[ValerieUSA]

I believe that as Americans apologize to the Arab world for the misbehavior of a few of us, we should be simultaneously broadcasting pictures of the atrocities committed against our people by them. Including 9/11 pictures of the WTO and Pentagon and field in Pennsylvania, soldiers and civilians murdered by "insurgents" in Iraq and Afghanistan, American tourists killed by suicide bombers in Israel and Egypt, American workers murdered in Saudi Arabia, and the gaping hole in the USS Cole, etc...... we would have to issue a very lengthy apology to include them all.

[ladyinred]

Before he was murdered, they forced him to relate his Jewish background and express sympathy with detainees in Guantanamo Bay before putting the knife to his throat once - and then again, a second time, owing to the faulty camera.

And the left is having a fit over the "humiliation of a few terrorists. Of course, they don't really give a tinkers damn about them, it is all about getting Kerry elected.

[mombonn]

I mean if the goal was slitting his throat and finally decapitation what would could possibly be the point of sedation?

So that it would be less difficult for them. He probably looked them in the eye, looked deep into their eyes as they slit his throat.

May they never close their eyes without seeing his.

[mombonn]

Stand up, get mean kick butt and take no names,screw any liberal who gets in the way.

That sounds like a good Bush/Cheney campaign ad!

[EternalVigilance]

I just plain don't believe this report.

IMO, this is a Muslim attempt to lie and spin this in a way that they think might mitigate its horribleness. Blame Pearl, he didn't take the merciful meds his murderers and mutilators offered him! Bah!

[eeriegeno]

And I am supposed to feel outraged that some arab prisoners were hazed by making them wear women's panties. We are too tolerant, entirely too tolerant.

[Salvey]

I believe that as Americans apologize to the Arab world for the misbehavior of a few of us, we should be simultaneously broadcasting pictures of the atrocities committed against our people by them

The only hitch is: who in the media would be willing to show the muslim atrocities? Certainly not the US "msm".

[CaptainK]

According to Joe Biden, Daniel Pearl got off easy.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Still waiting for the gruesome photographs to be shown on the national media outlets like ABCNNBCBS. Don't the people have a right to make up their own minds?

[The Scourge of Yazid]

I'm amazed that Dan Rather even had the guts to show the two stills from that heinous tape. What's even worse is the media blackout of any images from 9/11/01; I still have the front cover of the Village Voice from that week taped to my ceiling. The worst epithet those weaklings could muster was "Bastards!" Gee, that's really showing them!

[an amused spectator]

He died heroically like that Italian who (essentially) told those disgusting ragheads to go f**k themselves.

Daniel Pearl: 'I'll show you how an American dies!'

[BurbankKarl]

yes, but they were holding his head up by the hair...

[lilylangtree]

Excellent point! Had not thought about it.

[mattdono]

I had said:

2. Thousands of terrorists, in multiple terror groups (Al Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, etc.), sponsored in one form or another by over a dozen nations, bomb and kill innocent people over and over again and the world yawns, no condemnations are forthcoming from any Muslim official.

Below is an example of this point...

A Voice For Killing-Palestinian Broadcasts praise murders of Israelis; World hears nothing about it

[Cinnamon Girl]

And these people are upset about underpants on their head?

[Aquinasfan]

I couldn't have watched it.

Me either. Only one word comes to mind, "satanic."

[ZULU]

No Islamic Court anywhere will condemn a Muslim for killing a Dhimmi - not ANYWHERE.

[rightwingcrazy]

In many ways, America seems to be reenacting Israeli history of the past few decades. Shame we can't learn from it.