[Stultis]

He's admitted helping Pearl with appointments in Pakistan. He's doing this, IMO, to deflect attention from his role in the Pearl affair.

B.S. I have heard him discuss his role in the Pearl affair several times, with never the slightest indication of reticence. What is it with you and this utterly gratuitous claim that because Ijaz hooked Pearl up with a contact that he is thereby implicated in the murder? Do you even have a shred of evidence behind this claim?

[swarthyguy]

Here's my point. If you set up contacts for a person in a hostile country, (This was Pakistan) you do bear some responsibility for the nature of those contacts; Ijaz acknowledges that the people he's setting up contacts with Pearl have a low tolerance for perceived threats; And here's an American Jewish guy who works for the WSJ! All the more reason for Ijaz to have been extra careful or convinced Pearl not to go.

Pearl trusted this guy. What really irks me is that Ijaz absolves himself of any responsibility of convincing Pearl not to go. He knows Pakistan, he's travelled there and knew this was not the time or the place for someone like Daniel Pearl to be going there.