For one thing Colin Powell announced he was satisfied Pakistan Police
not involved in Danny Pearl's disappearance, since this case is no
longer a kidnapping. The word games begin.
Imagine soon witnesses will disappear - the cab driver who saw Danny led
to a white automobile with his arm guiding Danny Pearl - 3 men.
Is his wife still smiling and laughing for the press or have people had
enough of her at this point in time as his family calls for donations to
a memorial for Danny Pearl?
A more appropriate memorial would be a tombstone with his name engraved
upon same as a reminder this man once lived and died.
Nobody paid his ransom? Big Wall Street Journal could have legally
paid a ransom but face it over there its open season on journalists.
MIght do well to remember the Navy Seal, who was POW for how many
minutes - whose body was drug about after he was executed the next time
someone complains about the Cuba POWs who are being fed and given
medical treatment.
I think we ought to send them back, and set them free - only have some
of those Special Forces waiting for them - and do send John Walker Lindh
back with them.
They can lie all they want but Pakistan Police were in on the kill -
Danny Pearl would not have gotten in a automobile with 3 men even though
one obviously led him to his death and that guy, had to be a
cop......the color blue - like purple, takes on new meaning.
OSaba
Wednesday, March 6, 2002 3:17 p.m. EST
Pakistani Police Doubt Pearl Death Video
Pakistani police investigating the murder of kidnapped Wall Street
Journal reporter Danny Pearl say that a video showing his grisly
execution may have been faked, a leading Pakistani newspaper claimed
Wednesday.
Police sources in Karachi, Pakistan, told DAWN that the tape accepted by
U.S. officials as proof of Pearl's death was "of doubtful nature" and
"could be fictitious."
Local investigators contended that because Pearl's body has not been
recovered - and the tape showing his execution may have been staged -
there is no legal proof that the American reporter is even dead.
"Without the recovery of [a] body dead or its remains, the death of a
person remained doubtful in the eyes of law, they maintained," according
to DAWN.
Law enforcement sources even cast doubt on Pearl's status as a kidnap
victim.
"They said technically Daniel Pearl was not kidnapped but he went
somewhere to meet someone of his own free will where he was made
captive," according to the report.
"If a person went of his own free will to meet someone somewhere and
there he was confined illegally and there were apprehensions that he
might have been killed," then different laws would apply under the
Pakistani legal code, legal experts claimed.
The paper said it had interviewed "a number of senior police officials
and prosecutors" currently probing the Pearl kidnap-murder case.
The report, if accurate, could ignite new tensions between the
government of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and U.S. officials,
who were informed on Tuesday that Pakistani law enforcement officials
had decided to try the leading suspect in the Pearl kidnap-murder
themselves before even considering extradition.
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