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To: mishedlo who wrote (5846)	5/8/2004 6:44:16 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

mish get over it - and put the whole issue in the right perspective - yes there were abuses and yes certain people should be punished harshly but the brouhaha is to loud. It is sad that politicians in a election year are trying to capitalize on a sorry “chain of events” after all Kimit (spl) made public that an investigation was going on in January - why no one cared then? Why is the "arab world" not deeply offended when Iraqi children and civilians are killed by road bombs or suicide car bombings? Why is the "arab world" not deeply offended when over 200 people are massacred in Madrid Spain ? Why is the "arab world" not deeply offended when tens of thousand of Christians in Sudan are ethnically cleansed and massacred in South of Sudan by muslim / arab Sudanis? Why is the "arab world" not deeply offended when pro-western well respected Iraqi Cleric is hacked to death in Iraq by the mob .. on order from Moktada al-Sadr? Why is the "arab world" not deeply offended when people are killed in Kashmir ? Why is the "arab world" not deeply offended when a Mosque is bombed in Pakistan ? Why is the "arab world" not deeply offended when a Christian Church is bombed in Pakistan ? Why is the "arab world" not deeply offended when suicide bombing occur against innocents in Afghanistan Why is the "arab world" not deeply offended when close to 200 people die in a suicide attack in a theater in Moscow ? And there are plenty of more WHY’s … the whole issue is hypocritical IMHO - after all, in Abu Grab no one died (except one) or lost limbs or was maimed for life, as so many (in the thousands), are, due the action of arab terrorists which "the arab world" accepts and in many instances cherish. True certain US soldier have violated the Geneva convention and should be punished for that. Berlusconi was right in his definition of those people about a year ago

To: mishedlo who wrote (5846)	5/9/2004 4:41:40 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 116555

OT - Daniel Pearl 'refused to be sedated before his throat was cut' By Massoud Ansari in Karachi (Filed: 09/05/2004) Horrifying new details of how Daniel Pearl, the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter, met his death have emerged from the interrogation of new suspects by Pakistani police. Pearl, who was kidnapped in Karachi in January 2002, knew for several hours that he was about to be killed, but resisted repeated attempts to sedate him, police now believe. He was fully aware of what was happening when the Arab extremists who took control during his final days cut his throat, according to information gleaned from Pakistani militants now in police custody. Shocking video film of Pearl's murder, seen around the world via the internet, was in fact a partial reconstruction of what had happened a few moments earlier, officers have been told. The camera operator made a mistake and missed the moment of his death, which his murderers then re-enacted, before decapitating the reporter. The revelations have fuelled anger among police investigators that at least a dozen leading suspects in the kidnap and murder of the 38-year-old journalist have been arrested, but have not been charged or tried in connection with his death. Some have been accused of unrelated - and mostly lesser - offences. The three most recently captured suspects have not yet been charged, and their arrests have never been officially announced. .............................. Investigators say that senior officials in the Sindh police - the force responsible for Karachi - are "petrified" that if militants arrested in the past year were tried for their part in Pearl's murder, their earlier case against Omar Sheikh might unravel in the courts. One official close to the investigation said: "Even if these men have admitted their roles in the kidnapping and killing of Daniel Pearl, we simply cannot charge them because of its impact on that earlier case." Police have pieced together new details of how Pearl was held in captivity for two weeks, and eventually killed, from those involved - including two who witnessed his final hours. ...................................... Eventually, Saud Memon, who is believed to be al-Qaeda's chief financier in Pakistan and owned the house where Pearl was held, contacted a group of Arab extremists who took over custody and decided he would be killed. Armed with a video camera, three Arabs arrived, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, third-in-command of al-Qaeda - since handed over to the Americans. .................................. Before he was murdered, they forced him to relate his Jewish background and express sympathy with detainees in Guantanamo Bay before putting the knife to his throat once - and then again, a second time, owing to the faulty camera. One of those present told police: "When they were slaughtering him in front of me I thought it was a bad dream. I had seen the cutting of a goat or chicken many times, but had never seen a human being slaughtered in front me." telegraph.co.uk