I am certainly not convinced that we have the right killer in custody..
By Bernard-Henri Lévy Le Point
Was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, arrested in Pakistan in February 2003 and once al-Qaeda's No. 3, really Daniel Pearl's murderer? Was it he who, as he confessed to Guantanamo investigators, killed the Wall Street Journal reporter with his own hands? I had mentioned that theory - which was already circulating at the time in certain jihadi circles in Karachi - in the last pages of my book investigation. But a certain number of factors - beginning with the report of Fazal Karim, the man who held Pearl's head while his throat was being cut, and consequently one of the more trustworthy eyewitnesses to the event - led me after further examination to exclude that hypothesis. I have not changed my opinion. And that's not because I know - and there also, I've been able to see a bit - the conditions under which his interrogation at Guantanamo took place that I will modify my conclusion. Mohammed was incontestably one of the senior officials in Bin Laden's criminal army. He was the one, without any doubt, who, in Manila, invented the suicide airplane strategy that had the impact on the World Trade Center ten years later we all know about. And the strange personality that he then was, this man at once flamboyant and demonic, a lover of the good life, girls, great hotels, and, at the same time, fanatically Islamist, was capable, I believe, of the most barbarous acts. And yet ... Whatever the Americans' desire to file away the affair, to turn the page, and, above all, to have the feeling that justice has been done; I myself am persuaded, alas! that Daniel Pearl's murderer, the real one, has still not been identified.
Was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, arrested in Pakistan in February 2003 and once al-Qaeda's No. 3, really Daniel Pearl's murderer? Was it he who, as he confessed to Guantanamo investigators, killed the Wall Street Journal reporter with his own hands? I had mentioned that theory - which was already circulating at the time in certain jihadi circles in Karachi - in the last pages of my book investigation. But a certain number of factors - beginning with the report of Fazal Karim, the man who held Pearl's head while his throat was being cut, and consequently one of the more trustworthy eyewitnesses to the event - led me after further examination to exclude that hypothesis. I have not changed my opinion. And that's not because I know - and there also, I've been able to see a bit - the conditions under which his interrogation at Guantanamo took place that I will modify my conclusion. Mohammed was incontestably one of the senior officials in Bin Laden's criminal army. He was the one, without any doubt, who, in Manila, invented the suicide airplane strategy that had the impact on the World Trade Center ten years later we all know about. And the strange personality that he then was, this man at once flamboyant and demonic, a lover of the good life, girls, great hotels, and, at the same time, fanatically Islamist, was capable, I believe, of the most barbarous acts. And yet ... Whatever the Americans' desire to file away the affair, to turn the page, and, above all, to have the feeling that justice has been done; I myself am persuaded, alas! that Daniel Pearl's murderer, the real one, has still not been identified.
I just hope that the Pearl family find out the real truth..
2 comments:
As the true reports were written this person was tortured to say he killed Danny Pearl. All this is to get headlines and use a famous person's death just like the WH did with Pat Tillman. Bush lies so much he even lies about lies. These prisoners will say anything they if tortured even that they killed Lincoln and Kennedy. After seeing what water boarding is who can believe what they say. For proof David Hicks said he was tortured then after the military said they wouldn't complete the trial for him to go home he withdrew the statement. We have seen what the US does to torture prisoners that's why Mrs. Pearl moved out of the United States. Remember what Bush said and Bush could have save Danny Pearl. He saved the religious girl who was capture while teaching Christian lessons to Muslin's. Yes Bush and the Church paid for her release but he would help Mr. Pearl.
And what didn't Kalih Mohammed do? Wow now this guy has been caught we should not have to worry any more? NOT.
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