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CNN Reporting Kidnapped Journalist Killed ...
CNN Live

Posted on 02/01/2002 9:38:51 AM PST by RCW2001

CNN reporting live that "New organizations have received Email claiming that kidnapped WSJ has been killed.

Searching for wirecopy confirmation.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: danielpearl; islamicviolence; wsj
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To: nocommies
People should have listened to Rumsfeld yesterday. And people should be very, very afraid.

IMO, though, it's going to be interesting to watch the liberal WSJ lament that the government did nothing to save their man.

141 posted on 02/01/2002 10:23:17 AM PST by Howlin
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To: phasma proeliator
Can you imagine how his family must feel??? Watching this and then finding out that it might not be true? Sweet Jesus. His wife is lucky if she is able to carry that baby to full term.
142 posted on 02/01/2002 10:23:20 AM PST by DJ88
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To: Cinnamon Girl
eventually, they will get justice.... but if we react immediately, dont you see how a few thugs could dictate our entire war? NO NEGOTIATIONS with terrorists. trust me, im for killing in the most ruthless fashion these kidnappers, but we need to do it on OUR TERMS.
143 posted on 02/01/2002 10:23:48 AM PST by nocommies
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To: Cinnamon Girl
Of course he KNEW he was at risk in Pakistan.

I think that's the point the other posters are trying to get across. He didn't CHOSE to be kidnapped, of course. But he did agree to meet with terrorists, alone. That was a big mistake.

145 posted on 02/01/2002 10:24:19 AM PST by concerned about politics
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To: Phantom Lord
By tracking down Daniel Pearl, the military will be tracking down the terrorists involved, and they all need to be found and punished.
146 posted on 02/01/2002 10:24:22 AM PST by Cinnamon Girl
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To: kinsman redeemer
It was more like she was "aloof" and uninvolved.

I know of this woman from a personal friend. She has prayed considerably on this matter and wants only for her husband to be released. She is doing a fabluous job keeping her head about her. Can you imagine the inner strength it takes to not appear a blubbering victim in front of the world? That only plays into the kidnappers hands.

I would hope that my wife could be that disciplined and focused if I were in his shoes.

She is not aloof whatsoever, she is composed and focused on doing her part to help win his release.

147 posted on 02/01/2002 10:24:26 AM PST by Norb2569
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To: mystery-ak
Yes, they ARE reporting it. MSNBC just had someone on from Pakistan (a journalist) who read the first email which said that "Mr. Bush could find (Daniel Pearl's) body in the pits of Karachi." So they are reporting BOTH stories..
149 posted on 02/01/2002 10:25:22 AM PST by DJ88
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To: SERE_DOC
Haven't you been watching FOX? Steve Harrigan has been doing an excellent job on this story. He said they were alive but in bad condition, but he also said the administration was making every effort to get them back.

Unfortunately, the kidnappers don't want to deal with the government. They want cash from the parents or the church - I think he said $ 1 million.

It's hard to have one-sided negotiations.

150 posted on 02/01/2002 10:25:26 AM PST by SmartBlonde
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To: Alissa
cnn is the only network recognized by the arabs because they remember its coverage of the gulf war. probably never heard of fox or the others. i dont think many of them watch bloomberg tv at 500am est!
151 posted on 02/01/2002 10:25:50 AM PST by nocommies
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To: Alissa
Well, unfortunately its going to take a picture of Pearl dead to confirm this stoy.
152 posted on 02/01/2002 10:26:10 AM PST by mystery-ak
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To: Mixer

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153 posted on 02/01/2002 10:26:32 AM PST by FresnoDA
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To: Alissa
As much I despise CNN, they are much closer to this story than the other news outlets.

Kinda makes me wonder what info CNN is sending back to them.

154 posted on 02/01/2002 10:26:45 AM PST by concerned about politics
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To: DJ88
Can you imagine how his family must feel??? Watching this and then finding out that it might not be true? Sweet Jesus. His wife is lucky if she is able to carry that baby to full term.

Exactly. this is totally inexcusable as far as I'm concerned. But, unfortunately, not surprising.

155 posted on 02/01/2002 10:27:01 AM PST by phasma proeliator
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To: Dog Gone
Remember how elite media went after geraldo for carrying a gun? How jennings or brokaw said they'd be neutral in a conflict? Maybe some in the media really believed you could make a deal with thugs and pay no price.
156 posted on 02/01/2002 10:27:01 AM PST by monkeywrench
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To: SuziQ
Pearl's Kidnappers Won't Win
158 posted on 02/01/2002 10:27:31 AM PST by hammerdown
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To: DJ88
I am afraid the oh so cosmopolitan and oh so civilised westerner forgot some elemental facts of life:

a. He was a westerner and a Jew.

b. These people he was going to see were neither, in fact were Islamic and thus mindless animals if they confront someone of different culture;

c. Pakistan is in the 14th century, and Islam is mostly still in the 7th. He should have set his watch back 700 to 1400 years when he landed, and he put it off thinking it unimportant.

159 posted on 02/01/2002 10:27:46 AM PST by crystalk
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To: theophilusscribe
Evidently, that is exactly what Pearl thought he was going to do. He knew where he was going and with whom he was going to meet. He had an appointment with his kidnapper to discuss the other side of the Pakistani story.
160 posted on 02/01/2002 10:27:47 AM PST by Eva
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