[Squantos]

Think that pearl may have had a sat cellular link to his camera and laptop to send home stories ? Hmmmmmmm????

They could be using his own connection versus any pakistani ISP which in that country is some sort of snake I believe :o)

Stay Safe !

[Cinnamon Girl]

They had to have familiarity with the internet from somewhere otherwise, why would they have used it? And one of them obviously did the typing since it's such a mess.

[ridensm]

the use of U for you is an internet chat room phenomena, if the notes were written by the terrorists and reproduced correctly then whoever wrote it has been on the internet, often.

As for the picture and some other comments I've heard here; We can't even tell who it is with a gun to his head, the face is hidden. I'm no expert but the chains look woefully inadequate for restriction, one hand looks like it's almost worked it's way out already. We can't see the hands of the gun wielder so don't know if they have callouses or not. Most reporters would be close to some kind of populated area, at least as a base. Near the base of operations would be the most likely place for a planned abduction. Populated areas often have running water and some people even keep their clothes clean.

I don't know what to make of it all but as I have also seen posted here already, it smells bad.