Daniel Pearl Video: http://prohosters.com/pearl/

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you are a fuckhead.  go die.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.  YThat's wat   he dide in the videeeo.

That was kind of disgusting. Looks like some fifth graders made the 
video. 

I never did watch it.  Fuck goarey videos.

It wasn't that gory. mostly a binch of scenes of Pakistani's waving banners
and a head shot of pearl talking about being a Jew. 

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It wasn't funny. But is is in any poorere taste than showing President Kennedy
getting his brains blasted out? I notice that noone seems to have reservations
about showing that on the telly . . . 

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Whoa, whoa, whoa there, tiger...

Daniel Pearl was quite possibly a US spy. When someone catches a spy, they
often kill them. It's certainly not unheard of.

When I think "most important videos ever taken", I tend to think of:
The Apollo moon landing
The Kennedy assasination
Nixon leaving the White House for the last time
The protesting student who stood in front of a tank in Beijing
The Rodney King beatings
The L.A. riots
The Chicago riots
The Detroit riots
The first black student walking in to a newly integrated school

Somehow, a captured spy being executed just doesn't compare.

What evidence was there that Pearl was anything other than a 
journalist? 

None that I know of.  He was a professional journalist who had worked in the
field for a number of years, and wrote for an extremely reputable newspaper.

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re: 10 -- I don't honestly know. It's been mentioned quite recently on the
news, but I didn't really pay close attention, because I don't care.

re: 11 -- Can you think of a better cover for a CIA agent?

Twinkie:

> Daniel Pearl was quite possibly a US spy. When someone catches a spy, they
> often kill them.

Get with the program. He was [not] spying for Israel.

Daniel Pearl was "accused" and forced to admit that he was.... Jewish.

When spies are apprehended, it is usually by the government.  I wasn't
aware that the Pakistani government apprehended Pearl, let alone tried
him in a court of law.

Daniel Pearl was cruelly murdered by terrorists in cold blood.

Why? Perhaps because he was an American, perhaps because he was Jewish,
perhaps because he was an Israeli.

That might be the "justification", an "excuse" or "rationalization" that
some people might choose to "understand". As if such an act can be justified,
excused, rationalized or understood.

Jingoist.

I agree with Larry, and any accusation of spying should still be tried in
a properly constituted constitutional court, not by a posse. A lot of the
comments being made here are just by jerks trying to be funny. It wasn't
funny.

resp:5 sure, and you're apparently desensitized.  Disgusting.

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I didnt find *any* part of Freddie Got Fingered funny. I didnt watch 
the whole thing though so I missed the baby part. 

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I liked it for what it was. I would have been disappointed if I had to pay
money to see it in a theater, or rent it on video, though.

It doesn't necessarily matter.  There have been plenty of people that 
have been caught in international affauiras and branded as a spy.  That 
could have been the line they used when they took him into custody. 
We'll never know.  What we do know is that he was kidnapped, falsely 
imprisoned and murdered.  Why is not really the issue.

("falsely imprisoned" makes it sound as if he was imprisoned rather than
kidnapped and held hostage, only to then be murdered.)

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I say flasly imprisoned as these people may have been acting as 
officers of the outgoing government.  Mainly it was simply poor choice 
of words.  He was kiddnapped and held hostage, but the obvious 
possibilty also exists that that type of behaviour was encouraged by 
the old gov't.

He was kidnapped in Pakistan, not Afghanistan.

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Very true.  Based upon the eveidence gathered thus far, are the 
individuals on trial connected?  I haven't been reading much lately.

  re #30:  Benazir Bhutto has been out of power for quite a while now.
  The Pakistani leader ousted by Pervez Musharraf was Nawaz Sharrif (sp?)

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Musharraf isn't even particularly militant.

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