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Daniel Pearl Murder (video link) |
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by Eddie W.
(No verified email address) |
22 May 2002
Modified: 27 May 2002 |
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This is REAL face of Islamic terror. |
The link below takes you to a British message board, where you can see what Islamic terrorists did to Daniel Pearl. Viewer discretion is advised.
http://bbs.clubplanet.com/showthread.php?s=8f54358f388c6dc5c9b6f304724144c6&threadid=98041 |
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Any Video of Afghan Civilian Victims |
by ML
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
22 May 2002
Modified: 23 May 2002 |
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Horrific acts of terrorism should not be tolerated. Neither should they be used as excuses to kill our own share innocent civilians. Does this website also give us live action video of civilians being bombed in Afghanistan as part of the Pentagon's collateral damage? That would be balanced, if not exactly "fair" to the victims. |
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Henious crime |
by venu
nair (nospam) msn.com (unverified) |
Current rating: 0
25 May 2002
Modified: 08:50:49 PM |
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The barbaric act by the Pakistan terrorists is brutal and it deserve the maximum punishment. |
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NO STRENGTH |
by MATT LITVAK
LITVAKMATT (nospam) CS.COM (unverified) |
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25 May 2002
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NO UPPER BODY STRENGTH, THAT IS WHAT CHARACTERIZES THESE MUSLIM COWARDS. CLOSELY EXAMINE ANY OF THESE IDIOTIC PROPAGANDA PIECES, THE STUPID BIN-LADEN MILITARY TRAINING VIDEO OF WEAK IDIOTS POPPING OUT OF A HOLE IN THE GROUND, THE PEARL VIDEO. THESE ARE NOT CONDITIONED TRAINED FIGHTERS THEY ARE PHYSICALLY WEAK COWARDS. THAT IS WHAT I TAKE AWAY FROM THE PEARL VIDEO.
/S/
A TOUGH JEW NOT AFRAID TO FIGHT. |
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Response to #5536 |
by Michael
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Current rating: 0
25 May 2002
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Your comments concerning US "collateral Damage" and the suggestion of any parallel between this and Daniel Pearl's death or the showing of it are beyond misguided. I have no clue who you are and Im glad. Over 100,000 German citizens were bombed at the end of WWII in less then two days. Obviously the bombings of Hiroshima et. al. devestated civilians, however, war is ugly. We are the ONLY country in history to adopt costly technology for the purpose of decreasing enemy civilian casualties. I suggest reading a bit of history prior to opening your mouth in the future. Secondly, Daniel Pearl was a journalist, not a soldier, in a country where there was no "war." This is like the US executing journalists in Australia because they were Afghani's and we thought there government was misguided. It is unacceptable, disgusting and only dicredits any legitimate claim which extreme islamic groups may have. Further, if these so called innocent civilians had woke up and put an end to their hideous regime prior then they might have avoided the bombings. |
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Wow! |
by mike michaleson
mike (nospam) donkey.com (unverified) |
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25 May 2002
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Wow! |
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NOTHING WE HAVEN'T SEEN OR DONE BEFORE.... |
by TIM
TIMLITZ (nospam) AOL.COM (unverified) |
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26 May 2002
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what a sweet man daniel pearl was....and however well produced and effective this video is, it still hurts to see such barbaric actions.
i can't point fingers just to the middle east, when this country has trained killers and terrorists like those that killed daniel pearl at our own 'school of the americas'....the terrorist training school that our tax dollars paid for so that thousands of innocent citizens in central america could be slaughtered just as daniel pearl was.
having just returned from two months in vietnam and cambodia i was also reminded of the legacy america and it's violence has left on the beautiful people i encountered there.
also reminds me of many of the gruesome action films we have produced in this country that glorifies the same violence we say we abhorr.
it's time for us as americans to start looking in the mirror first, because this is the only country we truly have the power to change. |
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Facts Don't Support the Statement |
by ML
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27 May 2002
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Michael,
You said, "We are the ONLY country in history to adopt costly technology for the purpose of decreasing enemy civilian casualties. I suggest reading a bit of history prior to opening your mouth in the future." The assertion you make about the use of air power sounds like it came right out of a ROTC or Air Force Academy textbook.
If you believe that, then YOU need to read a bit of history. I would suggest Michael Sherry's "The Rise of American Air Power" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987). It is about WWII, but offers a cogent background to the myth of "precision" bombing that is advanced by the Army Air Forces which was then taken up by the founders of the USAF
The fact is that so-called "precision" bombing has in fact resulted in a vast increase in the percentage of civilians killed in modern wars (in relation to military dead), particularly in conflicts where unconventional military formations are the target of US air power. Since it becomes difficult to distinguish legitimate military targets at the stand-off distances that modern weaponry are utilized at, the result is that civilans often become the victims. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and now Afghanistan all reflect this unfortunate trend.
The actual use of lethal modern weaponry is mainly designed to avoid the political cost of US casualities. The Vietnam syndrome is alive and well at the Pentagon. They realize that victory must be quick and cheap (in terms of US casualities) so that questions are not raised about whether the costs of such wars are worth the price paid. Of course, the political-corporate elite which sets the foreign policy goals in America always feels that it is better to do things this way because:
#1 It avoids the questions of "What's in it for me" from the majority of the populace.
#2 It keeps tax money flowing to defense contractors.
I'd say it's back to books for you, Michael, if you want to truly understand this very ugly side of US foreign policy. |
