Pakistan arrests suspect in murder of U.S. journalist Pearl

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Pakistan has arrested a former militant leader in connection with the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, security officials said on Monday.

Qari Abdul Hai, once a leader of the outlawed Sunni militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), was arrested on Sunday during a security crackdown in Pakistan's biggest city, Karachi, said the officials.

Pearl, an American, was kidnapped in Karachi while researching a story on Islamist militants in the months after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/19/uk-pakistan-pearl-arrest-idUKBRE92I07N20130319

[lunatica]

1. The death of Daniel Pearl was horrendous, even in a time of horror

If this is indeed one of the militants behind the murder I hope he gets full justice. Pearl offered to give them a voice and tell their side of the story and they butchered him.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Another one?

In July 2002, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British national of Pakistani origin, was sentenced to death by hanging for Pearl's abduction and murder.

In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said that he had personally beheaded Pearl Al-Qaeda member Saif al-Adel has also been connected with the murder of Daniel Pearl.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pearl

How many heads did Daniel Pearl have?

[dipsydoodle]

3. Its "in connection with"

aka facilitating.

[geek tragedy]

5. Only one person can ever be responsible for a murder because math. nt

[Xipe Totec]

7. Not if it's Gitmo math. nt

[cali]

15. really? you think it was all the work of one person. How cute.

[Xipe Totec]

16. I think anything coming out of Gitmo is tainted - Cannot be beleived. nt

[tabasco]

18. I suppose you've never heard of people committing crimes together

That's what I take away from your post.

[Xipe Totec]

19. I suppose you've never heard of confessions extracted under torture

How many people commit a crime together has nothing to do with how many people you can get to confess to it.

Major Strasser has been shot... round up the usual suspects.

[joanbarnes]

4. about time......

[geek tragedy]

6. Wasn't he arrested and released in 2003?

We'll see if Pakistan still has the gumption to prosecute someone for killing an American Jew. I have my doubts.

[cosmicone]

8. Another sacrificial patsy to protect ISI bigwigs.

Pakistan's ISI was the one responsible for the murder and is handing out a low level fruit vendor or rickshaw driver to keep the US aid flowing.

[Nihil]

9. Funny how you didn't have anything to say ...

.. on this post http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014426971 and yet you are so damned quick to pipe up
on this topic ... almost as if there were certain "triggers" working to encourage you ...

(Keyword: Pakistan. Action: Attack)

[cosmicone]

10. I didn't know you stalked my posts so thoroughly

I'm flattered!

[Nihil]

11. No stalking required ...

It's pretty hard to miss your inevitable slagging off of Pakistan on every thread that
mentions the country (and many that don't) but your presence has been particularly
conspicuous by its absence on those showing Indian disgraces rather than Pakistani
ones.

[cosmicone]

12. Absence of a post by me

requires stalking, i.e. actively looking for my sobriquet. It is simple logic!

In any event, the so called "Indian disgraces" you mention are carried out by scumbag individuals in India who are brought to justice and punished.

The "Pakistani disgraces" are acts of terrorism carried out by the government of Pakistan and the real perpetrators are well hidden by the Pakistani authorities just like they hid Osama bin Laden.

Major difference don't you think?

[Nihil]

13. Only in your mind. (n/t)

[Honeycombe8]

14. You forgot your link to an authoritative cite, posting the facts as proof of your allegation.

At least with an arrest, there is some evidence.

[cosmicone]

17. It was all over the news back in the day...

Daniel Pearl was investigating ISI's links to two major terrorist groups, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Laskhar-e-Taiba.

http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/9464