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U.S. Ambo Samantha Power Facing Criticism Over Daniel Pearl Tweet
2014-02-24
[The Blaze] Power Tweet: "Daniel Pearl's story is reminder that individual accountability & reconciliation are required to break cycles of violence." @DanielPearlFNDN
Her "accountability and reconciliation" comment would indicate she's now earned her White House creds by coming out of the the regime's anti-Israel, Broederbond closet.
Wik memory jogger: On February 21, 2002, a videotape was released titled The Slaughter of the Spy-Journalist, the Jew Daniel Pearl. The video shows Pearl's mutilated body, and lasts 3 minutes and 36 seconds.

During the [capture] video, Pearl said:

My name is Daniel Pearl. I'm a Jewish American from Encino, California, USA. I come from, uh, on my father's side the family is Zionist. My father's Jewish, my mother's Jewish, I'm Jewish. My family follows Judaism. We've made numerous family visits to Israel.

In addition, Pearl was required to condemn American foreign policy. However, his parents have stated that this was propaganda, and that Pearl was in fact "a proud American, and he abhorred extremist ideologies." The family also listed some signals from Pearl in the video which shows he disagreed with what he was forced to say.

Following these statements, Daniel Pearl's throat was slit, and his head was severed.

The ending of the video concludes with the captors demanding the release of all Muslim prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, and warns that if their demands are not met, they would repeat the scene "again and again."
But then Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was captured, and the scene has not been repeated.
Update: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power on Monday issued a "correction" tweet saying that she meant the Daniel Pearl Foundation, not Daniel Pearl's killing, was a "reminder that individual accountability + reconciliation are required to break cycles of violence."
So what is the foundation accountable for in the non-cycle of violence that led to Mr. Pearl's torture and beheading? The tweets responding to the update will no doubt be as amusing as those responding to her original eruption.
Perhaps Ms. Power meant that individual accountability was required of Mr. Pearl's killers: that they had to die, after which we could have peace. If that's what she meant, I'm down with it.

Oh. That's not what she meant...
Posted by:Besoeker

#1  Yes. More dialog. Sigh.

What world do these people live in? What world do they want to live in?
Posted by: Airandee   2014-02-24 19:57  

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