[Cinnamon Girl]

The defendants were emotionless as the video played, said Rai Bashir, a defense attorney.

[swarthyguy]

They didn't cheer or highfive each other?

[swarthyguy]

US take the defendants out of Pakistan and interrogate them somewhere. Yes snatch them, kidnap them; Pakistani justice, my arse! --

[swarthyguy]

The body did not move or react, which made it appear that he already dead, Bashir said.

Unless he had been given one of those drugs that petrify your muscles so that you're still alive and aware but cannot move or show any reaction. Wouldn't put it past these scum.

[contessa machiaveli]

these people make me sick, both literally and figuratively. i don't understand the callous disregard for life.

[mikeIII]

Thanks for keeping this alive, not that there will be justice done in Pakistan. Pearl deserves at least that.

Omar is buddy of the ISI chief who is a buddy of Musharraf. This Western style trial in an Islamic sharia-country is a sham, and intended for Western consumption.

Their confessions were not admissible for technical reasons. This same country recently stoned a woman to death for adultery and another who lodged complaint of rape was supposed to have committed adultery because there weren't the required minimum number of witnesses to the rape!

[MeekOneGOP]

The courtroom was quiet, but for a sudden outburst from someone in the court who said in Urdu, "they're making a mountain out of a molehill," according to Abdel Waheed Katpar, the lawyer for the chief suspect in Pearl's killing, British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh.

I think we know which side of Bush's doctrine this guy is on........