Kidnapped WSJ reporter a friend of Muslims

UPI | 2/01/02 | SHAHID IQBAL

[nopardons]

You know better than to ask that, OF ! Of course I think that bombing the aspirin factory was just a sham.

Perhaps it is YOU , who needs ( desperately , I might add ! ) to reread this article, and think... and read, and think, and READ & COMPREHEND what it says. You seem to have missed several salient poins about Daniel Pearl's veiws. Or, have you recently changed over to being a bleeding hearted LIBERAL lately ?

[crystalk]

The most likely person to be killed by a tiger, is a tiger trainer, thinks he knows tigers, loves them.

The person most likely to be bitten by a cobra is a snake handler, a snake person, herpetologist, etc. He thinks he knows and loves them.

BUT DO THEY LOVE HIM???

Ah, no...Just that same cold Satanic blood lust, that looking for an opening. Show me someone who thinks Muslims are his friends, and I will show you somebody you wouldn't want to issue a life insurance policy on.

[M. Thatcher]

Now, I hope that they DO kill him.

Indefensible post.

[OldFriend]

The point is that every effort is made to save this man's life. Sorry but if you want to go on a hateful rant against that end, you ought to think about what you want to say if it were your son kidnapped.

[Rubber Duckie]

Yeah, Fiske got beaten up. But evidently not badly enough. He's still writing his Chomskyish dribble and biting the hand which feeds him (while licking the boot which kicks him). Of course, it was the fault of the United States that he got beaten up. The perps had no choice in the matter.

[nopardons]

Yet MORE bleeding heart / LIBERAL kant from you ? What, no " YOU MUST WALK A MILE IN HIS MOCCASINS " ?

As far as I know, everything possible IS being done to extridite this self hating Jew / self hating American, who has ALWAYS taken the Arab and Muslim side ( Please READ the article ! ) before. That the crazy kidnappers don't seem to know what they are doing, makes me rather suspicious. Will Mr. Pearl soon come home, write a long article talking about the " poor, misunderstod, victims" , who captured him ?

This country can't give in to kidnappers anywhere. Once they do, it's all over !

I've got news for you, IF I had a son ( which I don't ) , and that sons was a loony lefty ( as this man is ), even after ALL the indoctrination I and his father had stuffed him with... I wouldn't care if they shot him. Cold hearted ? Maybe. Truthful ? 100 % so, and I don't give a damn what you make of that ; so don't bother to reply.

[a_witness]

And what, pray tell is WRONG with you ? Bet you didn't read the article , or are a bleeding heart yourself. Johnny Jihad is an American citizen too. I bet you love him, and think that he is just a " poor , misguided youth "; don't you ?

Given your gambling patterns you must be a poor man. I think John Walker Lindh should be tried and convicted of treason and then executed. Daniel Pearle may be liberal and misguided in his politics but he is simply a WSJ journalist and an American. That is why he was targeted. If you can't distinguish a victim from a terrorist and hate your fellow Americans over politics so much you wish them dead at the hands of evil terrorists, I can assure you that President Bush does not want you on our team and your heart is altogether bound in evil and iniquity.

[RamsNo1]

What was Pearl thinking when he wanted to interview a radical muslim cleric? Is a story really that important?

[aimlow]

He had meetings apparently with these folks before. This time they decided to get him in the news apprently instead of him just reporting it.

[wretchard]

Jolo is the capital of the Island of Sulu, one of the three principal Muslim-inhabited islands of southern Mindanao, where US troops are now. The three islands are: Basilan (capital Isabela), Sulu (capital Jolo) and Tawi-tawi (capital Bongao). They are the ancestral home of the Tausug, a pirate people. This is where the Special Forces will fight.

Jolo is a dusty little town about a mile square. What little business or services exist is provided by ethnic Chinese or Christian Filipinos. The locals just sit and stare sullenly, when they are not drinking.

When I was there last, the Vice Governor of Sulu (Kimar Tulawie) was engaged in a feud with the Jolo Mayor (Saud Tan). Tulawie's men seized the hospital, drove the patients out (who ran through the streets carrying bottles of dextrose) and opened fire with mortars on Saud Tan's house. Being as they were not very good mortarmen, they peppered the shantytown between the hospital and Saud Tan's house with rounds (the Mayor's house was never hit) and burned out six or eight blocks. They then launched an infantry assault through the smouldering ruins and fought to an indecisive conclusion in this cindery no-man's land. The hospital itself (where I slept, after the combatants had left for more drinks, figuring it was still the safest place in town), has chicken wire on all the windows because of the nasty practice of the local Islamists of throwing hand grenades into the wards. And oh, yes. They smuggle drugs into Luzon to earn the living which they believe everyone owes them.

[OldFriend]

Seems our 'friend' nopardons is off his meds!

[MarMema]

They smuggle drugs into Luzon to earn the living which they believe everyone owes them.

It is truly amazing how alike these islamic terrorists are around the world, as if they had been cut from one cutter. Doesn't matter if it is Bosnia, Chechnya or the Phillipines. Having only known the european flavor until recently, I am actually impressed with their degree of synchronicity. Kidnapping, beheading and drug running. Who can question that these people are indeed the earthly servants of the evil one?

Am glad you were safe on your journey.