To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (11786 ) 2/23/2002 5:03:34 AM From: GUSTAVE JAEGER Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 23908 Re: Daniel Pearl. Well, although we all condole with Mr Pearl's family and especially his wife Marianne, I think we shouldn't be too credulous about the details of that painful ordeal.... I for one would take the beheading of Pearl with a grain of salt: Pearl was coldly assassinated, sure enough --but cutthroated and beheaded?! I believe that "juicy" detail is as bogus as the "incubator slaying" spinned by Hill & Knowlton on the eve of Desert Storm, back in 1991.... Remember:whatreallyhappened.com But then again, in doubt who'd dare US authorities to release that video?? As for Daniel Pearl being an undercover spook or just a candid yet dauntless Jewish-American journalist, well, I guess it's irrelevant. I mean, tell me the difference between a seasoned, globe-trotting Jewish-American journalist on the Wall Street Journal's South Asia desk and one of the many CIA/Mossad informants in that much troubled area?? I guess it's self-evident. BTW, it's a well-known fact that most NGOs/relief agencies and news/media outfits involved/deployed in hot spots are crawling with spooks --whether from CIA or Mossad, FSB, DGSE or you name it! After all, the video of Pearl's execution itself was delivered to an FBI agent posing as.... a journalist:cnn.com A senior U.S. official told CNN that the tape came into American hands when two men approached an undercover FBI operative they believed to be a journalist. The whereabouts of those two men were unclear. [...] _________________ Talking of videos, what happened to Bin Laden's video trail?? Did Al-Jazeera file for Chapter 11 or what?! No news is good news? Why the sudden slack? Gus