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2020-12-31 India-Pakistan

US poised to take custody of alleged killer of Daniel Pearl

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-12-31 01:22|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 I refuse to believe Pearl's parents can be so naive as to have made that statement by themselves. It was probably written for them by a company man.

So 'take custody'. I found that he was put up in Mirpur Khas a couple of times during the trial [some safehouse], it's 60 klicks east of the actual jail, maybe he still is there - your boys must know. Create a window by arranging another appeal hearing in the SHC [not the SC] and they'll have to put him at the safehouse for appearing. The convoy has to travel Highway 120, the Hyderabad-Mirpur Khas road to the Sindh HC. And do it on the raised stretch just before the residential begins. Use an unmarked armed bird, the jail police taking him to the SHC commons should give up without a fight.

Make a nice video of slitting his throat and throw him into the sea. Claim on C-SPAN that the Lashkar-e-Iblis, a new dangerous splinter of the IS-K has done it. For some reason they are opposed to the sovereignty of Pak, and hate Haq Nawaz Jhangvi.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-31 09:23|| 2020-12-31 09:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Lashkar-e-Iblis

Army of Satan? Goodness! But since everyone knows Americans don’t speak anything except a poor excuse for English, we couldn’t possibly have made it up.

I refuse to believe Pearl's parents can be so naive as to have made that statement by themselves.

I did wonder. As I recall, Daniel Pearl did not fall far from the tree.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-12-31 09:54|| 2020-12-31 09:54|| Front Page Top

#3 From Judea Pearl’s Wikipedia page:

Judea Pearl (born September 4, 1936) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks (see the article on belief propagation). He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models (see article on causality). In 2011, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded Pearl with the Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, "for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning".

In 2009 he wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal:

Daniel Pearl and the Normalization of Evil
When will our luminaries stop making excuses for terror?

Posted by trailing wife 2020-12-31 10:02|| 2020-12-31 10:02|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Poor mother. Sadly, justice or peace is not achieved without greater violence than the predator's. These people who believe in 'man having gone astray due to evil' just don't have a clue about the universe.

The reason for the normalization of evil is simple; an abundance of King Sauls and very few Samuels.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-31 10:10|| 2020-12-31 10:10|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 Should've insisted his son learn more math & get a real job.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-12-31 10:10|| 2020-12-31 10:10|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ True.

My sister [SC lawyer now] once went for a year of 'caring for the war ridden in Africa'. She came back with just malaria and horror stories of being groped and threatened. But she used it to boost through her 'glass ceiling' or whatever. Sometimes they're just stuffing a resume so they can be promoted. It's dumb I know.

If Danny were really a company boy, I'd understand though.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-31 10:23|| 2020-12-31 10:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Should've insisted his son learn more math & get a real job.

He was the Southeast Asia bureau chief, based in Mumbai, when he ran off to Karachi to interview people about a story on Richard Reid, the Al Qaeda shoe bomber. Not just a run of the mill scribbler.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-12-31 10:38|| 2020-12-31 10:38|| Front Page Top

#8 ^Journalist, spit.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-12-31 11:17|| 2020-12-31 11:17|| Front Page Top

#9 er..fableist

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-12-31 17:14|| 2020-12-31 17:14|| Front Page Top

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