>Wasn't Daniel Pearl also trying to write a positive piece >on the terrorists before HIS throat was cut?
You would have thought these peaceniks would have learned a lesson with him. I see these people that are too niave to exist almost. They think "If I could just show them how nice I am..." This isn't a sunday morning cartoon and if you really just got to know the mean monster, you'll find he's just cranky because he has a thorn in his foot... These are murdering psychopaths and nothing short of death will stop them. Most anyway. The ones in control that is.
You would have thought these peaceniks would have learned a lesson with him. But way before Danny Pearl, aid workers, red cross personnel, baptist ministers, and humanitarian peoples were being caught, held and killed in brutal ways in Chechnya.
The chechens taught their fellow muslims how to run the deals and use kidnappings. Back in the mid-nineties. And just around that time they ran a human slave market in Grozny, where they sold and traded hundreds of kidnapped people. Until Russia leveled Grozny....and the world told the Russians what bad guys they were to pick on the poor chechens.