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Suspect in Pearl killing dies
Agence France-Presse ^ | November 12, 2007

Posted on 11/11/2007 11:57:59 PM PST by HAL9000

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Washington - A Pakistani businessman suspected of playing a role in the 2002 brutal killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl died earlier this year, shortly after being interrogated by US and Pakistani intelligence, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Pearl, a Karachi-based correspondent for the Journal, was kidnapped on January 23 2002, and killed execution-style shortly after.

The newspaper said Karachi businessman Saud Memon became a key suspect in the case because he owned a nursery where Pearl had been held captive.

Citing an unnamed senior US law enforcement official, the report said Memon was interrogated by both US and Pakistani intelligence services.

The interrogation produced information that Memon was helping al-Qaeda develop anthrax strains, the newspaper said.

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To: HAL9000
A Pakistani businessman suspected of playing a role in the 2002 brutal killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl died earlier this year, shortly after being interrogated by US and Pakistani intelligence

I hope it was IMMEDIATELY (as in an interrogation-ending fatal event) after a particularly painful round of questioning.

41 posted on 11/12/2007 5:59:24 AM PST by ALASKA (IT'S NOT ROCKET SURGERY......................Don't just do something, STAND THERE!!!)
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To: HAL9000

It may be unChristian, but I hope he died in serious pain.


42 posted on 11/12/2007 6:00:07 AM PST by Little Ray (Rudy Guiliani: If his wives can't trust him, why should we?)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

Giovanna thinks Bin Laden is dead.

The more debatable question is whether Midhat Mursi is dead. He was their biochem fellow. Thought to have been killed at a dinner meeting Ayman was expected to attend. But recently the Washington Post reported matter-of-factly (and with no fanfare) that the reports of his death were greatly exaggerated.

So while I’m not going to debate the evidence that Bin Laden is alive, I do agree that war is deception. Usually, one of the greatest sources of deception is self-deception.


43 posted on 11/12/2007 6:08:51 AM PST by ZacandPook
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To: ZacandPook
Usually, one of the greatest sources of deception is self-deception.

Well, you and the rest of the American Liberal/Socialist Empire would certainly know all about self-deception.

And, just FYI, the only people with whom the Washington Post has any credibility are liberals. So the next time you want to make reference to that rag, remember that that they, along with the New York Times and the LA Times, are the official Gospels of the Liberal Alternate Universe.

Talk about self-deception. The Washington Post???? You're kidding, right?

44 posted on 11/12/2007 6:17:00 AM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: ZacandPook
"The wide consensus is that we are losing the war because of major mistakes: "

Yes, the wide consensus of the liberal, anti-Amherican moonbats. And where, perchance, do you place your banner, Pooksie?

45 posted on 11/12/2007 6:22:26 AM PST by Redleg Duke ("All gave some, and some gave all!")
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To: StarCMC

You are wasting your time asking this “person” to give aid to the enemy. It is obvious whose side he/she is really on.


46 posted on 11/12/2007 6:24:40 AM PST by Redleg Duke ("All gave some, and some gave all!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let Ted Kennedy take him out at night for a coupla rounds of drinks and then a dip IN the drink. He’ll be drown and the Democrats will never mention it again.


47 posted on 11/12/2007 6:37:41 AM PST by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: HAL9000

Are these guys named Memon, both associated with anthrax, related? Is the guy from the 2005 story a son or nephew?

“During a raid on Jamil’s hideout in Swat, Mr Wazir said, police found a computer hard disc that contained information about poisonous chemical agent anthrax and on making dirty bombs.”

http://www.dawn.com/2005/01/18/top3.htm
18 January 2005  Tuesday  07 Zilhaj 1425

Man involved in failed attack on Musharraf held in Swat
By Ismail Khan


48 posted on 11/12/2007 6:44:04 AM PST by ZacandPook
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To: HAL9000

Whoops!


49 posted on 11/12/2007 6:44:51 AM PST by toddlintown (Five bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: ZacandPook

The war has been “screwed” by the Chomsky-types who spout that we went into Iraq to broaden the American “empire”, language that has assured an unfriendly welcome.

So we’ve had to tie a hand behind our backs and make assurances that we aren’t going to run things or even establish things, just monitor and guide and pull out sometime.

Still wondering when we will leave Germany, Japan, Korea, Bosnia...

We didn’t capture Adolph Hitler either. And there were prominent Nazis who elluded capture as well. It didn’t mean that the war never ended.


50 posted on 11/12/2007 6:44:56 AM PST by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: ZacandPook
Politics are immaterial to me.

It is only immaterial to you because you live in freedom - something which you obviously take for granted.

intemperate comments by busy surfing Freepers on the subject only encourage them to remain so.

BS. If anything, it encourages them to get their facts straight before they shoot off about things, like, sayin, whether or not we are winning or losing a war.

And while I wouldn’t ever let my daughter marry a Freeper, I know you all to be patriotic.

Wow. So you're going to tell your daughter who she must marry? How very progressive of you.

51 posted on 11/12/2007 6:49:13 AM PST by StarCMC (http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com/2007/08/11/school-of-the-counterpropagandist/)
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To: Redleg Duke

Yes, but I’ll be da**ed if I’m going to sit here and let him say we’re losing the war without commenting that he’s full of it.


52 posted on 11/12/2007 6:52:12 AM PST by StarCMC (http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com/2007/08/11/school-of-the-counterpropagandist/)
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To: HAL9000
"........died shortly after being interrogated by U.S. and Pakistani intelligence."

Surf must have been up for waterboarding.

CPR training by interrogators optional.

Leni

53 posted on 11/12/2007 6:59:34 AM PST by MinuteGal (Three Cheers for the FRed, White and Blue !!!)
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To: ZacandPook

Do you really think the death or capture of Bin Laden means anything more than vengeance for us?

Don’t get me wrong. I believe in payback. That is why I liked the concept of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, drawing his final pathetic breaths looking up at a US Special Forces solder who is standing with his foot on what remained of the hand Zarqawi used to behead poor Nicholas Berg.

But do you really think for one single solitary moment that what happens in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan has anything to do with whether Bin Laden is dead or alive?

For the record, no way Bin Laden should be taken alive if they find him, IF he is actually still alive (which I am not convinced of)

If he IS alive and is captured, he should shot in situ, and his body anonymously buried under a ton of rubble. The Islamofacists who worship him as a God can go on believing for years that Bin Laden is out there looking over them and scheming, waiting for the right moment to strike again. Hopefully, they will get bitter when it doesn’t happen, and when they draw their final breaths, hopefully in the same circumstances Zarqawi did, it will dawn on them that what they have been doing all these years is not some kind of fight of justice, but a simple bloodthirsty pagan worship of death.

The simple truth is that it makes no difference to liberals and those appeasers who follow their liberal “religion”, because that is surely what it is.

They said we couldn’t claim victory because we hadn’t captured or killed Saddam and his boys. We did.

They said we couldn’t claim victory because we hadn’t captured or killed Zarqawi. We did.

They said we couldn’t claim victory because Fallujah was not subdued. The US Marines subdued it.

They said we couldn’t claim victory because Anbar Province was unruly. They are having unification parades with police and soldiers.

They said we couldn’t claim victory because the “surge” would never work. It is working.

The bottom line is: To liberalism and its adherents, there is nobody that the US can kill or capture, no country that can be liberated that justifies in the eyes of liberals the desire to defend ourselves. To them, all war of any kind is unjustified. They will have to forgive the rest of us for not meekly offering up our necks for their knives.


54 posted on 11/12/2007 7:02:55 AM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: rlmorel

BUMP!


55 posted on 11/12/2007 7:27:49 AM PST by StarCMC (http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com/2007/08/11/school-of-the-counterpropagandist/)
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To: HAL9000

GOOD!


56 posted on 11/12/2007 7:30:01 AM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: ZacandPook
“And while I wouldn’t ever let my daughter marry a Freeper”

You have that much control over your daughter? Pray tell us how.

57 posted on 11/12/2007 7:59:17 AM PST by pepperdog
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To: Westlander
‘was helping al-Qaeda develop anthrax strains’

Wow. They found out you can dig up a dead cow.

You don't "develop anthrax strains" by digging up dead cows.

Developing a strain implies that they were growing anthrax in a lab and then killing the bacteria with diluted antibiotics. If any anthrax bacteria survived, they'd try to grow more it. The idea is to develop a strain of anthrax that can't be killed by antibiotics. In other words, they were trying to create a more effective "weapon."

The Ames strain used in the 2001 anthrax attacks could be killed by just about any antibiotic. That's why no one died in Senator Daschle's office after the anthrax letter was opened there. All 5 people who died as a result of the 2001 attacks died because they weren't diagnosed and treated until it was too late for antibiotics to do any good.

Ed at www.anthraxinvestigation.com

58 posted on 11/12/2007 8:31:47 AM PST by EdLake
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To: rlmorel

Okay. Bin Laden is dead and we are winning. Fine. Whatever.

And I was just kidding about not letting my daughter marry a freeper.

Can we at least agree that Al Qaeda is responsible for the anthrax?

Thanks.


59 posted on 11/12/2007 8:33:39 AM PST by ZacandPook
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To: ZacandPook
"...And I was just kidding about not letting my daughter marry a freeper..."

You reproduced? Good Gosh, who else knows about this?

(only kidding!)

Seriously, I don't see why it is germane to this discussion that Al Qaeda is responsible for Anthrax. By the way, I have no opinion on that. I don't regard it as a critical issue at this time. If it is important to acknowlege that there are islamofascist sympathizers and outright terrorists in the continental US who would like to do us harm, I have no problem agreeing with that.

I thought the issue you brought up is that mistreatment of captive terrorists causes terrorism. It reminds me of Ann Coulter's opinion that we don't want to piss off people who hate us and wish for our destruction, because that would make them hate us and wish for our destruction.

60 posted on 11/12/2007 9:30:03 AM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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