|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Brad DeLong
|| Sent: 23 Þubat 2002 Cumartesi 20:16
|| To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
|| Subject: Re: WSWS on Pearl
||
||
|| ><http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/feb2002/pear-f23.shtml>
|| >
|| >The killing of Daniel Pearl
|| >
|| >By David North
|| >23 February 2002
|| >
|| >The efforts of the US government and the media to use the death of
|| >Pearl for their own reactionary and militaristic purposes must be
|| >resisted and rejected.
||
||
|| What's next? Will we learn that the dead of Auschwitz were also the
|| victims of reckless and reactionary policies pursued by the United
|| States?
||
|| It used to be that when Jews were killed for sport, people said that
|| they were the victims of their own authorities' and ancestors'
|| crimes. Now at least they say that they are the victims of the United
|| States's policies.
||
|| I suppose that this is progress--of a sort.
||
||
|| Brad DeLong
||
I'm sure history will clear your country's name, Brad. In the meantime, here's another heretic who thought the US was trying to get her killed:
Hakki ----------------------------------------------- Intelligence services wanted me killed, says journalist
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?dir=61&story=109164&host=3& printable=1
Yvonne Ridley makes astonishing claim in book about her days of captivity with the Taliban
By Jo Dillon, Political Correspondent
09 December 2001
Yvonne Ridley, the British journalist captured by the Taliban, this week makes the extraordinary claim that Western intelligence agencies tried to get her killed to bolster public support for the air strikes on Afghanistan.
In her new book, In The Hands of the Taliban, published tomorrow, Express journalist Ms Ridley, 43, says despite her release from captivity she still has "unfinished business" surrounding her time in Afghanistan.
She claims that on her return to Pakistan she found her hotel room had been searched. In London, the locks on her Soho flat had apparently been tampered with. A journalist on the Arab TV station Al Jazeera then showed her a collection of as yet unverified documents. They purported to be copies of a dossier of personal and financial papers and pictures.
When told they had been handed to the Taliban, Ms Ridley asked: "Who the hell was trying to get me shot?" (...)