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To: swarthyguy
It's hard to take anybody at their word anymore, but insinuating that Ijaz had a hand in Pearl's death - knowingly or unknowingly - makes you look like a guy with an agenda.
80 posted on 05/17/2002 3:03:33 PM PDT by Harrison Bergeron
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To: Harrison Bergeron
What's wrong with an agenda, anyway? My agenda is
Don't take Ijaz at face value; his statements are self serving. Like this
IN his own words.

Shortly after the tragic events of September 11, Mr. Pearl called me from Bombay and said he had been made aware that I had some contacts with some of the either former associates of Osama bin Laden or some of the more radical Islamic groups in Pakistan, which I did from other things that I had done in that region. And he wanted to know whether or not I would be willing to introduce him to them. And I spent about an hour with him in that first telephone call essentially trying to understand what story he wanted to pursue to make sure I wasn't unnecessarily putting him in harm's way, because these are not people who understand mistakes very well. And I was absolutely convinced of his integrity, his honesty, his approach, and I made those contacts available to him. And one of those contacts was the one who sent me an e-mail message last Friday morning, very early in the morning, essentially saying that Daniel was missing for the last 48 hours, was I aware of it, and what needed to be done. And that's when I started to proceed to get involved in this process.

83 posted on 05/17/2002 3:15:57 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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