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CNN Reporting Kidnapped Journalist Killed ...
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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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: danielpearl; islamicviolence; wsj
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To: wheezer
then he was a hero

I don't see him as a hero. I see him as a press member who gambled for a story, and lost.

261 posted on 02/01/2002 11:22:58 AM PST by concerned about politics
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To: Redbob
no that's to easy.. take the one legged Mullah and let him hop out the back gate of gitmo and play in castro's mine field.
262 posted on 02/01/2002 11:24:07 AM PST by markman46
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To: FR_addict
Man, this is exactly what the tin-pot dictator Musharaff has been saying all along to his people. Does anyone remember his first news conference? He said we should side with American like Mohammed (the child rapist) sided with the Jews only to defeat them later. He said this in Urdu, but was translated by FoxNews. We are making a gargantuan mistake by trusting Muslims.
263 posted on 02/01/2002 11:25:01 AM PST by USMMA_83
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To: princess leah
Time to Nuke 'em!

Over a journalist sympathetic to Muslims?

264 posted on 02/01/2002 11:26:32 AM PST by UberVernunft
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
I agree with you. I, for one, am gratefful for the risks journalists take so that light can shine on parts of the world that would much prefer to operate in darkness.
265 posted on 02/01/2002 11:26:34 AM PST by twigs
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To: Born in a Rage
If you willingly fly a commercial airplane in America and terrorists kidnap you and/or kill you, should the government come and get you? Yes or no?

YES. BUT, if you chose to fly the plane without passengers into a terrorist territory by your own free will, NO.

266 posted on 02/01/2002 11:26:38 AM PST by concerned about politics
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To: concerned about politics
I don't see him as a hero. I see him as a press member who gambled for a story, and lost.

In recent weeks, anthrax has been a realistic threat to postal workers. If a mailman gets anthrax and dies, should we praise him and his life for doing his job regardless of the risks he took or should we just say he 'gambled to get out the stupid mail, he should have been a quitter, he knew the risks, he lost, too bad'?

267 posted on 02/01/2002 11:27:38 AM PST by Born in a Rage
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To: RCW2001
The various responses to this "news" are all over the place. I am happy that those that voice extreme views are not in charge right now.

President Bush and his team seem to know what to do, and I will allow them the time to do it.

If this news is true, then it just one more verification that those that are making war against the United States do no understand us, or the changes that have occured since 9-11.

They will do what they have to do, and we will do what we have to do. I just wonder if in a moment of reflection if they ever wonder if they may have gone too far?

268 posted on 02/01/2002 11:28:32 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN
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To: wheezer
"I mean just a because a foolish man knowingly risks his life"

Foolish? He was a journalist doing his job. It can be a dangerous job but he knew the risks and was willing to take them, just like a soldier, a firefighter, or even a window washer. Is everyone with a dangerous job foolish?

I agree nukes are a ridiculous solution, but the poor guy could be dead. Would be nice to show a little respect.

269 posted on 02/01/2002 11:28:51 AM PST by monday
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To: calvin sun
Was the episode entitled "To Serve Man"?

"To serve man"...it's a cook book!

270 posted on 02/01/2002 11:30:19 AM PST by UberVernunft
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To: RCW2001
If this is indeed true ... the longer we hold those barbarians at Guanatanamo, the more kidnappings like this will occur.
271 posted on 02/01/2002 11:31:04 AM PST by ikanakattara
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To: Born in a Rage
If I were a mailman during the anthrax scare, I'd schedual my vacation. I wouldn't CHOSE to take a chance. I have kids. The mail would have to wait. The welfare checks would be late.
Once the area was declared safe, I'd go back.
272 posted on 02/01/2002 11:31:24 AM PST by concerned about politics
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To: concerned about politics
YES. BUT, if you chose to fly the plane without passengers into a terrorist territory by your own free will, NO.

There are terrorists right here in America, the risk is here everyday for those pilots.

As far as the journalist, we were his 'passengers' and our tickets were paid for with the 'freedom of the press'.

273 posted on 02/01/2002 11:31:33 AM PST by Born in a Rage
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To: concerned about politics
I see him as a press member who gambled for a story, and lost.

BINGO! If he had obtained the scoop and gotten out to tell a story of daring risk to his colleagues, THEN he would be called a hero! (the crown that Geraldo wanted to wear...)

The trap that caught him had an element of genius about it. The news outlets have a lot of sympathy for a captured colleague... and their sympathetic coverage could have had an impact on public opinion. But I laugh when I think that one of their demands was the release of GITMO prisoners.

They would have had a better chance at removing "S" from the alphabet.

Atlea*t that'* the way I *ee it.

Ru**

274 posted on 02/01/2002 11:33:48 AM PST by kinsman redeemer
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To: East Bay Patriot
As has been said on many of the talk shows:

"NOT ALL MUSLIMS ARE TERRORISTS, BUT

ALL TERRORISTS ARE MUSLIMS."

275 posted on 02/01/2002 11:33:59 AM PST by Two Thirds Vote Aye
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To: Born in a Rage
There are terrorists right here in America, the risk is here everyday for those pilots.

Yes, that's why the tight airline security, and the right of pilots to bare arms. Some people complain that security is destroying their freedoms. To do what? Die?

276 posted on 02/01/2002 11:34:42 AM PST by concerned about politics
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To: Born in a Rage
Not even close to the same.
277 posted on 02/01/2002 11:35:16 AM PST by Phantom Lord
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To: concerned about politics
Once the area was declared safe, I'd go back.

The thing about terrorism is that there is no time when it's "safe". The 9/11 victims thought it was safe to go to work at the Towers that day. If another attack occurs, I'll bet the next victims would have thought they we going to be 'safe' too :-(

278 posted on 02/01/2002 11:37:13 AM PST by Born in a Rage
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To: DJ88
"I give up. A human life is valuable...no matter what"

I agree. I don't understand the people who say that it is too dangerous for our military to go after the terrorists when that is their job, what they were trained to do? I guess we should all just stay home, lock our doors, and hope the scum leave us alone?

280 posted on 02/01/2002 11:38:33 AM PST by monday
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