Who Killed Daniel Pearl?

[carolinayellowdog]

Publisher's Weekly for 8/25 has a starred review for this new translation of a recent French title. The author Bernard-Henri Levy begins his investigation with the belief that the Pearl murder contained "a dark and terrible secret" and ends it convinced that the defendant Omar Sheikh was "an operative of both the ISI (Pakistani intelligence) and al-Qaida" who took the fall for both at the trial, and that Pearl was killed not for who he was but for what he had learned about Pakistani government involvement in 9/11.

This was a bestseller in France, where the author is a renowned philosopher and writer. PW calls the investigative journalism aspect thrilling.

[RBHam]

1. I figured this out a long time ago.

Pearl knew too much. Including links between the ISI and the CIA's Black Ops involvement in 9-11.

[FlashHarry]

3. Oh you did, did you?

You're sure it wasn't Islamic radicals in Pakistan--'cause that sure looks like it was. After all, he was an American Jew, a double-whammy for anyone operating there.

I'd love to hear your alternative theory, since you've 'figured it out.' Enlighten me.

[RBHam]

6. Can you handle enlightenment?

TIMELINE: Daniel Pearl and The Paymaster of 9/11
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP209C.html

THE TIES CONNECTING BUSH, BIG OIL, BIN LADEN, THE TALIBAN, THE ISI, THE CIA AND THE MURDERERS OF DANIEL PEARL
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column70a.html

Pearl Murder Link to 9/11 Ignored
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/qfisi.html

“Armitage, who had spent some years of his career in the CIA/DIA and holds the highest Pakistani civil decoration that could be awarded to a foreigner for his role during the Afghan war of the 1980s, has a large circle of friends in the Pakistani military & the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate.” - - SARPA News Agency

Summary: It is a matter of public record that the Pakistani intelligence agency (ISI) and the CIA have very close ties. Over the last two decades the two agencies worked together continuously in such activities as intelligence gathering, covert funding, and covert operations (which included drug smuggling). They worked together to train, fund, and arm the Mujaheddin forces that expelled the Soviets in the ‘80s. And in the late ‘90s, they worked together to help the Taliban consolidate power in Afghanistan.
But beyond these well-known facts, there is an abundance of evidence suggesting that the ISI funded the 9-11 terrorists attacks. This is extremely disturbing considering that several senior officials within the U.S. intelligence establishment are very close to officials in the Pakistan intelligence agency. Even more upsetting is the fact that these U.S. officials were meeting with their ISI counterparts both before and after the 9-11 terrorist attacks.

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/wot/sept11/isicia.html

[radwriter0555]

5. RB, agreed. Pearl was on to the ISI and was likely close to or had

found out CRITICAL info on the WTC hit, i.e., that it wasn't a bin laden job.

We discussed this before, I think.

BHL ROCKs. he is an awesome force to be reckoned with.

[fla nocount]

8. Hey RB. As an aside.

What happened to Print Think and where can I find it? I miss it.

I know that this is off topic but that little column did alot to get me and others thinking.

You're a great guy doing a great job. And now........back to the show

[Must_B_Free]

2. Let me guess

it has something to do with Daniel "Danny" Casalaro?

[leftofthedial]

4. ISI and rogue CIA/PNAC/"al Qaeda" operation he stumbled onto

pretty obvious, isn't it?

[greyl]

7. I just saw him on Charlie Rose today

repeated from April. He does seem very credible.

Link to audio of the show here: http://www.charlierose.com/archives/archive2.shtm