NOTE TO READERS: I will be in Europe through August 8. My blogging may be sporadic. See below. NY TIMES QUOTE OF THE DAY: From NASA after last night’s announcement that the space shuttle would be grounded: “We decided it was safe to fly as is. Obviously, we were wrong.” Recall the email to this [...]
CNN: New arrest in Pearl case From Pakistan comes word of a new arrest in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl. A man named Hashim Qadeer, was arrested Wednesday….. FINDING THE KILLER Greg Mitchell has another big story in Editor and Publisher cited on the European Journalism Center: “One of [...]
YOUR LETTERS Jack Shultz writes from Canada: ”There has always been, for me, a very bad smell about 9/11. I don’t know if its the PNAC declaration that it will take a “Pearl Harbour like incident to mobilize the American public for war in Iraq” back in 1998, or the testimony of former FBI agents [...]
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