Are any of our regular guppies actually in Pak? If so what do you make of this article?
Pearl killed ‘for finding terror links’
Paul Webster, Paris
Thursday April 24, 2003
The Guardian
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.
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. **
LOL at the author of this so called research.. it was written by a Frenchman Bernard-Henri Lévy who is a staunch supporter of Isreal… that explains the Anti-Pakistan rhetoric within the article. Its not worth wasting time reading such garbage. Heres an article below showing how Bernard-Henri Lévy strongly opposed a boycott against Israeli academics by the French. Incidentally according to the article below this French Author also directed soft porn videos.. :nook:
Opposition to the boycott was led by Bernard-Henri Lévy, the popular public intellectual who, when not appearing on television to discuss the finer points of French philosophy, dabbles in cinematography (he directed a soft-porn film starring his own wife). BHL, as he is styled, launched a petition denouncing the motion that swiftly attracted more than 21,000 signatures. Excerpt
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Why do we need a french philosopher or pornmaker to state the obvious? Pakistan govt admits it so what's the subterfuge in this?
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What is the obvious and what has the Pak govnt admitted? Please share your vast knowledge with us. I am one of the staunchest critics of the army on this forum, but I despise people who make up stuff with no proof.