Klinghoffer Blog Archive 8-21-03 to 10-23-03

MORE ON THE FAILURES OF AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE 10-23-03

You know I am not a great admirer of American intelligence. Here are some additional reasons WHY.

Posted by Judith at 5:00 P.M. EST

"MUSHARRAF'S GOOSE GETTING COOKED?" by B.RAMAN

I think this article is worth contemplating:

"Oct. 22, 2003 | Last Thursday, a senior White House official called Mariane Pearl and Paul Steiger, the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, to report a new, key development in the investigation into the death of Mariane's husband, Journal reporter Daniel Pearl."We have now established enough links and credible evidence to think that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed" -- the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks --"was involved in your husband's murder," the official told Mariane.

"What do you mean 'involved'?" Mariane asked.

"We think he committed the actual murder."

2. So says a sensational article A href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/10/22/pearl/index.html">on the kidnapping and murder of Danial Pearl, the US journalist, written by Asra Q. Nomani, the free-lance journalist, then living in Karachi, in whose house Pearl and his wife Mariane had stayed when he went on his ill-fated trip to Karachi from Mumbai last year to investigate a report that an E-Mail