India avenges Daniel Pearl
The murder of Daniel Pearl seems like ancient history now; it happened early in 2002. However, a few weeks after the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel I took a look back at Pearl’s murder and wrote this:
Remember Daniel Pearl? Why do I start this post with him? He was the first terrorist victim – at least the first I can remember – whose death contained that special element of horrific sadism and psychopathic brutality crossed with modern technology, in that his beheading was videoed and purposely broadcast by the perpetrators. This was way before ISIS, but it foreshadowed the behavior of that group. It was something out of a psychological horror movie, and yet it was real.
Pearl was held hostage first, too. And then before the terrorists killed him he was forced to say things such as, “I am a Jew.” That was very very important to the terrorists, although the US seemed to be their main target for the moment.
Here’s an interesting fact that I never knew before, about Daniel Pearl’s mother, which is that she was an Iraqi Jew [born in Baghdad] who fled that country in the 1940s because of persecution and violence …
During the video, Pearl was made to say at the outset:
“My name is Daniel Pearl. I’m a Jewish-American from Encino, California, USA. I come from, uh, on my father’s side the family is Zionist. My father’s Jewish, my mother’s Jewish, I’m Jewish. My family follows Judaism. We’ve made numerous family visits to Israel.”
Jewish, Jewish, Jewish; Israel, Israel, Israel. That was no mere detail to Pearl’s killers. It’s not that they won’t kill non-Jews; they certainly will, and with relish. But it is Jews they wish to eliminate from the earth first.
I go on to add that the who killed Pearl want killing Jews to be a worldwide effort.
Now we learn, however, that as a result of India’s retaliation against Pakistani terrorists who murdered civilian tourists in Kashmir, the killer of Daniel Pearl has been, as they say, neutralized. Here’s the story:
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s governing party, said that the Indian army killed Pakistani terrorist Abdul Rauf Azhar in “Operation Sindhoor.”
A group of Islamist terrorists, including Azhar, kidnapped and murdered Pearl in 2002. The terrorist was affiliated with al-Qaeda and Jaish-e-Mohammed, an Islamist terror group that aims to separate Kashmir from India and fully incorporate it into Pakistan. …
In the BJP announcement, the party said that Azhar was involved in a number of terror activities, including the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight, the 2016 Pathankot Air Force base attack, and a 2001 terror attack on the Indian parliament.
Azhar’s involvement in the 1999 hijacking freed Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British-born al-Qaeda member who formerly served in Pakistan’s intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Azhar wasn’t targeted because he killed Pearl. He was targeted because of his terrorism against India. But as you can see, it’s all connected. And I wonder whether India got some help from Israeli intelligence.
I would add the old saying “The wheels of justice grind slow,” but it doesn’t seem like “justice” when this person and his colleagues have been walking the earth for over 20 years since the beheading, and have recently managed to kill 26 innocent people more.
NOTE: See also this article in the India Times.
Your link to the Times of India goes to an article about a Galaxy phone.
The question becomes what did the isi know about these cells
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/international/inside-indias-op-sindoor-kill-list-video-evidence-of-precision-strikes-in-pakistan-pok/videoshow/120972958.cms
And when did they know it
Good job, India. Azhar’s place in hell is well-earned.
At the very least, Azhar’s been looking over his shoulder for twenty years.
Pakistan’s response indicates the degree to which they think they “own” the terror industry in that part of the world. Stepped on some Paki toes.
Wonder how this is playing in London.
The question becomes what did the isi know about these cells
And when did they know it
According to the Indian-made video, quite a lot. I was surprised that the video did not hesitate to name ISI.
But no surprise that ISI is suspected of involvement. Look at the Thanksgiving 2008 Mumbai killings.
Kate:
Thanks, fixed.
I go on to add that th [sic] who killed Pearl want killing Jews to be a worldwide effort.
While our benighted MSM does its best to conceal that. Consider a NYT article about the death of Hezbollah honcho Nasrallah. Protesters Mourn Nasrallah’s Death Around the World
For comparison, here is an article that directly quotes Nasrallah. Hassan Nasrallah: In His Own Words(2006)
Doesn’t sound at all like the “Can’t we all live together in equality?” narrative the the NYT claimed for Nasrallah. Sounds more like me to a goal of genocide, which is doubly ironic given that the Hamasniks and Hezbollahniks claim that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza. What Hamasniks want done to Israelis, they accuse Israelis of doing.
The article pointed out other tolerant, peaceful utterances from Chairman Nasrallah.
Very few references.
Read history on Islam’s fighting and trying to overtake India for centuries. Millions have been killed through the ages.
Islam’s borders with the rest of the world tends to be where a lot of bloodshed occurs.
dhimmi press, I remember Helen Thomas cried when Fadlallah passed, he was the inspiration leader for Hezbollah, like the grand poobah of the water buffalo, for the longest time I think Mubarak Gilani was the one who set up, Daniel Pearl, it appears not to have been true, at least not most directly, it helps when you are a nuclear power, they largely leave you alone,
I was saying the account by Marianne, who they based on the film, suggests that, the film indicates that KSM had admitted his part in the deed, even though omar saeed sheikh, was the one who kidnapped him, as the story goes, they do seem very anxious to claim credit like a perverse typeofparticipation trophy
so dalia maghrabi, the one who committed that massacre in 1978, was mawdawis pinup
for lack of a better phrase, why did they do it, to stop further peace talks with israel, that is their logic,
so it’s left to india to take care of the business, and well they are out of that brand of pager
(I’m sure they have others)
Look at Islam’s bloody borders and expulsion of the l conquered.
How long will the Left-terrorist alliance and the Iron Curtain of denial continue ruling over us?
I’ve heard it so many times I figured there must be a definition someplace. Can’t find one.
It’s the “Westphalian model”. That is, the accumulation of legal and cultural expectations of the responsibilities of a sovereign nation, and its supposed freedom from other states’ Big Ideas. These supposedly stemmed from the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, ending the Thirty Years War. And have become more solidified in international law and citizens’ expectations.
I suppose it works, in a way.
But when we have non-state actors, there’s a problem. With the possible exception of the Gaza–depending on your definition–and Antarctica, every dry spot on the planet is owned by a sovereign nation.
So non-state actors are aways within sovereign nations about whom we have the Westphalian model expectations. Now what?
Does Pakistan have some, none, or a lot of responsibility for the terrorists within its borders? This presumes they don’t love them some terrorists.
Look at, say, Mauretania. There’s a lot of not-there there and if terrorists set up a base and somebody says you should do something, they might say, there’s not a road within a hundred miles of the place and we only own four helicopters. So other states are allowed….what, exactly?
Of they might say we have those terrorists’ family and friends all over the capital and we can’t afford to annoy them. Now….what, exactly?
Or they could say, those are good folks and what they do is none of your business so butt out. Then what…exactly?
Do we “invade” a sovereign nation? What does that nation do, is expected to do, considering it’s being invaded?
I say this because I recall various arguments about this when the US was going after Al Quaeda in Afghanistan.
The former all presumes the terrorists aren’t connected to the government, however tenouosly.
Pakistan’s response seems to be as if their very own stuff, people and infrastructure, has been hit. So how does this fit the Westphalian model?
Do we abandon it altogether?
international law is a convenient fiction, often to be used as a club, against one party or another,
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/us
Trump announces full and immediate ceasefire between India and Pakistan.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2025/05/10/trump-announces-full-and-immediate-ceasefire-between-india-and-pakistan/
Jai Hind!