[BenF]

The kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was a friend of Arabs and Muslims and often supported their cause, says a former editor of the Asian edition of the newspaper.

If this is true then it's no loss if they kill him.

[a_witness]

If this is true then it's no loss if they kill him.

Shame on you. Of course it is a loss, and his wife is pregnant. He is not a terrorist and he is an American, albeit misguided in his politics.