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Danny Pearl - Why he was killed
National Review ^ | 2/22/02 | Michael Ledeen

Posted on 02/22/2002 7:41:33 AM PST by veronica

Daniel Pearl was kidnapped, tortured, and killed because he was an American Jew who worked for the Wall Street Journal.

Don't think for a minute he just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

He was targeted because of what he represented, what he stood for.

These killers are marching to the drumbeat of people who study us carefully, hate us intensely, and savor the symbolism of their actions.

They struck at the most widely read publication in the world, a newspaper that had unrelentingly exposed them, that had revealed the hatred of the Iranian people for their repressive theocratic regime, and had even discovered a terrorist computer in Afghanistan and exposed its contents to millions of readers.

This was not a criminal act; it was part of the terror war. They were saying to their followers, "this is what we do to the American Jewish enemies. Join with us and kill more of them."

And they will do it to all of us if we do not get them first. I trust that the ritual slaughter of Daniel Pearl will intensify our rage and galvanize our efforts. For those of us who write, we must write more, and more clearly, so that no American is in doubt about the urgency of our national mission and the rightness of our cause.

And for those who command, they must stop their endless bickering about tactics, abandon the illusion that there must be a political solution somehow, somewhere, and get on with the war. The longer we wait, the more of us will be sacrificed.

I do not know who killed Daniel Pearl, but I do know that Iran and Iraq are working feverishly to turn Afghanistan into a replay of Lebanon in the eighties, where the United States was driven to a humiliating retreat after hundreds of Americans were killed.

If you read the news carefully, you will see their creatures at work there, day after day. The Iranians turned hostage taking, torturing, and killing into a national sport, and they would love to do it to us again.

The best memorial to Daniel Pearl is freedom for the peoples of the Middle East, and a chance for them to build civil societies. For them to get there, we've got to bring down the terror regimes and kill the terrorists themselves. The president has said it repeatedly: destroy the terror networks and the states that support or harbor them.

Faster, please.


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1 posted on 02/22/2002 7:41:33 AM PST by veronica
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To: mledeen, dennisw, lent, alouette, catspaw, long cut, hockey pop, bahbah, laconas, yehuda
Bump.
2 posted on 02/22/2002 7:42:54 AM PST by veronica
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To: veronica
The best memorial to Daniel Pearl is freedom for the peoples of the Middle East, and a chance for them to build civil societies. For them to get there, we've got to bring down the terror regimes and kill the terrorists themselves. The president has said it repeatedly: destroy the terror networks and the states that support or harbor them.

Spot on.

Excellent post, thanks for finding and posting it Veronica.

3 posted on 02/22/2002 7:43:41 AM PST by usconservative
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To: sabramerican, thinkin' gal, benf, nachum, simcha 7, sjackson, monkeyshine, american in israel
Bump.
4 posted on 02/22/2002 7:43:58 AM PST by veronica
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To: veronica
For those of us who write, we must write more, and more clearly, so that no American is in doubt about the urgency of our national mission and the rightness of our cause.

Agreed, we cannot afford to lose interest in this "unusual" war. We must unite and remain aggressive.

5 posted on 02/22/2002 7:44:46 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: veronica
bttt
6 posted on 02/22/2002 7:47:10 AM PST by Travis McGee
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To: HangFire
BUMP!

7 posted on 02/22/2002 7:47:27 AM PST by AnnaZ
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To: veronica
The Wall Street Journal should set up a newspaper in the Middle East call The Pearl and crank it out all over. I think the younger students there would love it!
8 posted on 02/22/2002 7:48:50 AM PST by Commodore Schmidlab
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To: veronica
.....but I do know that Iran and Iraq are working feverishly to turn Afghanistan into a replay of Lebanon in the eighties, where the United States was driven to a humiliating retreat after hundreds of Americans were killed.

bump...

9 posted on 02/22/2002 7:49:52 AM PST by rface
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To: veronica
Ledeen nails it here.
10 posted on 02/22/2002 7:54:49 AM PST by Bahbah
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To: veronica
Good article.

Pearl was killed because he was Jewish, worked for a newspaper that reported on financial news (financial institutions are another of bin Laden's targets) and an American. People may quibble about the order, but I haven't been physically ill about terrorist acts since 9/11...until yesterday when I heard about Daniel Pearl's death at the hands of murderous thugs. It has not even further steeled my resolve to do anything to track down terrorists where they are, whereever they are, whomever they are and destroy them without mercy.

11 posted on 02/22/2002 7:56:50 AM PST by Catspaw
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To: veronica
If you listen carefully to what the already apprehended conspirators have been saying, Daniel Pearl was targeted because he was a Jew. The fact that he was an American was not mentioned. The vicious anti-Jewish sentiment among some people is just frightening.
12 posted on 02/22/2002 7:57:43 AM PST by lady lawyer
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To: lady lawyer
That they had him say he was a Jew on the tape right before they killed him is further evidence of their sick thinking.
13 posted on 02/22/2002 8:09:41 AM PST by aristeides
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To: veronica
So, do the Islamic apologist liberals consider this a Hate Crime™ or just Diversity™ ?
14 posted on 02/22/2002 8:17:27 AM PST by FreedomAvatar
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To: veronica
Excellent post!! All I can say is an enthusiastic AMEN! I hope that President Bush sees this atrocity for what it truly is.
15 posted on 02/22/2002 8:18:50 AM PST by pgkdan
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To: AnnaZ
For those of us who write, we must write more, and more clearly, so that no American is in doubt about the urgency of our national mission and the rightness of our cause.
16 posted on 02/22/2002 8:22:07 AM PST by HangFire
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To: veronica
Watch the Islam promoters show up and say it's really all our fault for our policies in the Middle East.
17 posted on 02/22/2002 8:22:07 AM PST by FITZ
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To: veronica
Thanks for the Post.

An aside: I've been wondering whether in a twisted, tragic manner (......sorry) the brutal beheading of Danny Pearl, one of the "Media's Own", will light a fire under the butts of panderers, lefists, hand-ringers and apologists that inhabit THAT profession.

Let's Roll.

18 posted on 02/22/2002 8:32:43 AM PST by DoctorMichael
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To: veronica
Good article. The most important aspect of Pearl's murder is that he had a lot of influence and knowledge due to his work. What a tragedy to see another life senselessly taken.
19 posted on 02/22/2002 8:32:58 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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To: veronica; Common Tator
The best memorial to Daniel Pearl is freedom for the peoples of the Middle East, and a chance for them to build civil societies.

Silly and naive. Who wants to build civil societies there? Where are the democratic dissidents, the Solidarity movements of the Middle East? It's this kind of naivete at the offices of the Wall Street Journal, as Common Tator pointed out on another thread, that sent Daniel Pearl to his certain death. Next thing I expect to hear from these deep newspaper thinkers is that old American kindergarten refrain that all people are the same everywhere. Let the "peoples of the Middle East" build or destroy what the heck they want to build or destroy, but in the Middle East and only in the Middle East. There appears to be no room in the religious theology which governs their outlook and their lives for what we in the West know as a "civil society". End of rant.

20 posted on 02/22/2002 8:34:01 AM PST by Revolting cat!
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