Where Daniel Pearl's body was dumped
The building is nondescript, like a huge apartment block. in a field in east Karachi. But it contains a notorious religious school, or madrassa, called Jama Ashrafiya, and when you drive around it you can see students and teachers in the rear courtyard. Young boys from poor families get meals and board and have their worldview shaped here.
Where Daniel Pearl's body was dumped
Trudy Rubin, Inquirer Opinion Columnist
The building is nondescript, like a huge apartment block. in a field in east Karachi. But it contains a notorious religious school, or madrassa, called Jama Ashrafiya, and when you drive around it you can see students and teachers in the rear courtyard. Young boys from poor families get meals and board and have their worldview shaped here.
Many of these radical madrassas are built without permits on government-owned land, yet the police never intervene (indeed the city mayor has no control over the police who respond to the provincial government). Repeated pressure by the United States and millions in education aid intended to bolster the underfunded public schools, have had little impact. Madrassa reform efforts undertaken by former President Musharraf, have come to little.
And so, hardline madrassas like this one continue to indoctrinate youths, a small portion of whom may become future suicide bombers.
And it was nearby this building, that the decapitated body of Danny Pearl was found.
It seemed that Pearl was getting close to the ISI ( Pak secret police ) connection and the transfer of $100,000 to supposed 911 hijacker Atta . The head of the ISI was also visiting with Joe Biden and Porter Goss days before and on 911 '01 . Pearl was murdered by an operative of the ISI .— adz
Pearl was a victim of real torture, not the imaginative kind that anti American democRATS want prosecuted.— fgomarty
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You don't play handball with snakes. We torture prisoners we become the enemy. Some of us Americans would like to keep a high standard of treatment instead of waterboarding 50 people to get real good intel from the 1 who has it.— nphillyguy- C'mon guys,you forget. In Obamaland, only Americans are criminals and beasts. Just ask him while you're in some foreign county using a phony accent, he'll tell you.— MFinSC
- KSM murdered Daniel Pearl not the ISI. 9/11 "truthers" are delusional.— mijou6
- His death came after reports of prisoner abuse came out from us, possibly in response to our abuse, my how you get it all wrong. Bush did wonders for our reputation abroad but somehow its Obamas fault after a few months in office, riiight. We got our best intel in wwII by befriending pow's, not torturing, tons of research shows torture doesnt work at all. You want to continue endagering our troops abroad, how patriotic of you.— peteike
- nphillyguy, I play handball with snakes, the problem is that I have to spot them 7 points.— jakelbi
- Man, why is it that conservatives can't argue a point without attempting to be snarky? I mean, "democRATS"? "Obamaland"? Come on. You're not fifth graders. Use your grown-up voices.— Yaz
- Yaz, thats funny have you heard, I don't know, every Liberal Commentator. Your leaders on the air are all snarky. That is how the libs do it. They can't win on ideas, look at the internals on OBAMA. You are the snarky ones.— rgreen72
- Sure thing. It's a liberal thing. (What's with the capitalization of "liberal commentator," anyway?) Just two words for you, kid: Rush Limbaugh.— Yaz
