Foreign. (News on the Terrorism Front).

0 Comments | Alberta Report, March, 2002

The grisly murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl by Pakistani Muslims disgusted the western world, but divided the journalistic fraternity. In a February 12 National Post column, George Jonas mocked Pearl (then still alive) as similar to those people "who fancy keeping alligators in their bathtubs." Pearl, Mr.

Jonas explained, "was trying to set up a sympathetic interview with some radical Islamist groups, reportedly to 'trace links between Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network and alleged shoe-bomber Richard Reid."' Some might cavil that Pearl was merely doing what foreign correspondents have always done, often at great personal risk, but Mr. Jonas concluded it was pointless to "dialogue" with "beasts...whether they have four legs or two." In other...