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2008-02-04 India-Pakistan

Expelled US 'journalist' violated visa terms

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Posted by Fred 2008-02-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
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#1 He might want to layover in Paris for a few days and have a long talk with Mariane Van Neyenhoff and her fatherless young son Adam Daniel Pearl.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-02-04 00:39|| 2008-02-04 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Why does it now seem that claiming to be a journalist makes about as much sense as claiming to be a pederast?

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-02-04 08:11|| 2008-02-04 08:11|| Front Page Top

#3 A freelance American journalist who was expelled from Pakistan had gone to the country as a research scholar and not as a journalist...

Pak officials don't understand that in American culture a 'journalist' considers himself/herself an expert a large number fields [without having spent more than Google(tm) minute on the subject], so being a 'scholar' is just another self anointed title they can give themselves.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-02-04 09:15|| 2008-02-04 09:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Journalists have certain protections under international conventions IIUC. Researchers don't.

Posted by lotp 2008-02-04 10:59|| 2008-02-04 10:59|| Front Page Top

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