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| Yemeni psychos were brought in to kill Pearl... |
| 2002-08-18 |
| Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl was slain by an Arab after he tried to escape from kidnappers who seized him eight days earlier, police said Sunday. Two investigators said the information was gleaned from three men who led police in May to a body that was identified by DNA tests as Pearl. The three — Naeem Bukhari, Fazal Karim and Zubair Chishti — have not been charged in the Pearl case and Pakistani authorities have not even acknowledged publicly that they are in custody. They were arrested as the trial of four other alleged kidnappers was under way. Maybe they should be put on trial, too? Or aren't the coppers done hitting them yet? Police said that on the sixth day of his captivity, Pearl tried to escape as he was being led to the toilet. However, he was seized by Karim and Chishti, who beat him and shot him in the leg. The struggle made so much noise that students at a nearby Islamic school ran out onto the roof to see what was happening, police said. But it was only some foreigner being beaten up, so they went back inside... A day after the escape attempt, police said, Bukhari told his fellow kidnappers that they had to kill Pearl. The kidnappers waited a day while they deliberated issuing a ransom demand. On the ninth day of the kidnapping, three Arabs, whom the suspects believed to have been Yemenis, were brought to the hideout. The two officers said the Arabs were said to have been associates of Ramzi Yousef — the imprisoned mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Small world, ain't it? Police said the kidnappers began asking Pearl a series of questions about his religion and his background as one of the Arabs filmed it with a video camera. Suddenly, Karim seized Pearl's hands and one of the Arabs slit his throat. That's because snuff videos are preferred viewing among the turban and automatic weapons set... The actual murder was supposed to have been recorded but "the cameraman lost his nerve," one of the policemen said. Too bad for them. Think of all the barely literate Islamoteens they could have recruited with all that blood spurting... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 So nice to see that the moral teachings of Islam made such an impression on the students. |
| Posted by: Joe 2002-08-19 07:40:24 |