[pythagorean]

Pearl was a honest guy, but Levy is not. Levy is a self-promoting, pompous, hypocritic and idiotic liberal imperialist who does not miss an opportunity to express his gratefulness to Clinton and to the humanitarian warrior industry for saving the supposedly good, multicultural, secular, "democratic" Islam of Izetbegovic and the KLA from the evil Serbs.

[Destro]

Well his book is in the "fiction" category.

[Destro]

People must be wary and realize that Levy's book - Who Killed Daniel Pearl? is a work of historical fiction: His guide into this netherworld was Pearl, whom he calls a "posthumous friend" and to whom he ascribes many of his own characteristics: "A Jew of the left, a progressive ... a friend of the uncounted, the universal orphan, the disinherited." Pearl, Lévy says, was a firm believer in the possibility of a moderate Islam, one that Lévy himself sees in a battle to the death with radical believers from al-Qaeda. He follows the journalist as he pursues a shadowy figure named Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, a former Brooklyn-based imam whom Lévy calls a "guru" of bin Laden's. He meets Pearl's contacts, spends time in the unheated, two-room hovel where Pearl was held and murdered nine days after his kidnapping. "I decided the best way to tell this story was step by step, even if that meant contradictions," he says during an interview