Fate of kidnapped reporter unclear

Associated Press ^ | February 2, 2002 | A/P Staff (N/A)

[MeekOneGOP]

Easy Link
http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/missingreporter_020102early.9a8f7.html

[Dog Gone]

Who cares what Hamas thinks? Why was that thrown into this story? Why not get a statement by the IRA or the Basques while they were at it?

Sheesh.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Let's hope this doesn't turn into another "Daniel deserved it and I don't feel sorry for his pregnant wife" thread. It's talk like that which makes people look like extremist nuts.

[pabianice]

>>However, CNN said it received an e-mail from those claiming to hold the Wall Street Journal correspondent,

Note how these toads express hatred for all things Western, but still use computers, email, aircraft, hi-tech explosives, etc.? What loathsome hypocrits.

[Tennessee_Bob]

I think what we have here is Schroedinger's Reporter.

[crystalk]

Can we nuke Karachi yet?

[LibWhacker]

We should make it clear to these mo. . . [I can't say it] . . . We will kill ten thousand of them for every one of us they kill.

[Cinnamon Girl]

By the way, the 8th Commandment, "thou shalt not steal" is refering to kidnapping, and liable for the death penalty. All the kidnappers need to be found and killed.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Medved is on now asking people who think they can "work it out" with these terrorists to call into his show.

[paolop]

Hopefully, the kidnappers are, and always have been after 2 things: Money and the freeing of the former minister. The rest of the demands were obfuscation. Once they see the futility of obtaining the minister, they may settle for money.

The other demands did not seem credible. Hopefully, he is not dead, however.

[VRWC_minion]

an unsigned e-mail,

Is this something like a milkless bull ?

[Zubercyber]

Yeah no real need for any spice on this story Cinn girl

[Zubercyber]

Oh yeah! that sure can be done and Indians would be more than glad to do our dirty work. On a second thought... who knows? perhaps they(Indians)are the real ones who are trying to stir up the situation to that extent, therefore lets look carefully before bothering our ally Pakistan & Musharraf. While India is one of our great allys we cant wholly trust them either in such situations.

[princess leah]

THey can get a whole lot more than 2 million dollars if they would just cough up Osama Bin LAden (23 more million to be exact!)

[Cinnamon Girl]

The request for $2 million sounds like someone else, not the kidnappers got a bright idea. Who knows which emails are real and which are fake. The one saying Daniel has been killed could also be a fake.

[DJ88]

Have you noticed that almost all the cable news channels have DROPPED the story that "he had been killed" from the airwaves in the last 1/2 hour or so? What's up? Maybe getting confirmation on this? Or someone finally stood up and said, "DON'T REPORT UNTIL YOU HAVE THE FACTS". That would be a first. ;-)

[Clemenza]

Please explain. Are their Freepers who want Mr. Pearl to die and if so, why?

[livius]

I don't think they (the kidnappers) knew what they were after.

The whole thing seemed confused and almost unplanned, like a crime of opportunity with different people leaping up to claim to be the "spokesman" for the kidnappers. If Daniel Pearl is dead, I suspect he was probably killed shortly after they got him; certainly, they didn't provide anything that might indicate he was really alive (the photo of a man with his head down doesn't count)

I hope we find somebody to really blast on this one. Killing journalists is a bad precedent; no matter how sketchy (or even biased, in some cases, not Pearl's) a report is, at least it provides us with more information than we would have had without it. But of course, truth is the enemy of Islam...