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| Pearl killed ’for finding terror links’ |
| 2003-04-24 |
| The American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan because he uncovered links between the British terrorist Richard Reid and the Pakistani secret service, according to an investigation by the French philosopher and author Bernard-Henri Lévy. Lévy's book Who Killed Daniel Pearl? traces the Wall Street Journal correspondent's last investigation after he was persuaded to go to Pakistan by a London-born double agent, Omar Saeed Sheikh. Hmm..i'm not sure how much trust to put into a "French Philosopher" findings on terrorism, is there anyone here who lives in France and can get a hold of his book? Sheikh has since been sentenced to death in Pakistan for overseeing the murder, in which the reporter's body was cut into 10 pieces. Lévy spent several weeks in Pakistan and described it as "the most delinquent of delinquent nations". He said Muslims such as Reid who were linked to al-Qaida were being manipulated by "the most violent and most anti-American faction" inside the Pakistani intelligence service. Sheikh, a London School of Economics graduate, reportedly invited Pearl, who was then in India, to visit him in Pakistan as part of an inquiry into the background of Reid. Reid is now in prison in the US after trying to blow up a flight from Paris to Miami. Lévy said "an odour of the apocalypse" floated over cities in Pakistan where there was a struggle between moderate and radical Muslims recruited by the intelligence service. He accused Pakistani extremists of transferring nuclear secrets to Iran and helping North Korea to develop the atomic bomb. Claiming that Pakistan was the real key to all Islamic-led international terrorism, he said that the US had solved only 1% of the problem by deposing Saddam Hussein. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #2 BHL is a pompous, self-centered media junkie, with a bad actress for wife, ridiculous silk shirts, and is an all-time favorite target for cream-piers; still, he 's got quite a record about recent history, starting with Bosnia & Rwanda, and then Cachemire, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka,... all theses obscure little wars nobody cares about because they're not fashionable. I've yet to read his book, but he's got some credibility here. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-04-24 12:49:03 |
| #1 Umm, Levy is one of the rare -decent- contemporary French philosophers. Note that he has his head screwed on straight about Pakland. |
| Posted by: Ernest Brown 2003-04-24 12:16:31 |