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...Serb paramilitaries bent on ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. Now he sees it in militant Islam - which he believes is perilously close to acquiring nuclear arms. Lévy's latest book was not prompted by political theory, but brute fact: the murder of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in January 2002. Lévy, 54, was in the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, on a mission for the French government, when he learned that Pearl was dead, and decided there and then to write about...
...ENVOY: At the request of French President Jacques Chirac, Lévy traveled to Afghanistan in February 2002 to gauge the needs of the Afghan people, and plot France's role in rebuilding the country following the fall of the Taliban THE INQUIRER: Prompted by the murder of Daniel Pearl, above, Lévy traveled widely to expose the role of Islamic militants in Pearl's death. Lévy claims that Pearl - "a refutation of his killers' view of a clash of civilizations" - was murdered before he could reveal links between al-Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence chiefs...
...does so with the flamboyant iconoclasm that has long made him a lightning rod in French public life. His new book, Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, released in France to great fanfare at the end of last month, is his report on a year of remarkable research that took him from the urban wastelands of Karachi to Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, from London to Dubai and Bosnia, and from fact to a kind of fiction. In retracing Pearl's last steps - the story that got him killed - Lévy concludes that the reporter's kidnapping, decapitation and dismemberment...
...Tahitian Pearl,” Ron Blake’s saxophone converses with McBride’s electric bass until the two finally meet, yielding perhaps the album’s smoothest effort. “Lejos de Usted,” with its samba-influenced rhythm, is also unique for McBride’s bowed bassline, which complements a strong flute performance from Blake. Although the track’s spoken introduction seems extraneous, the interesting play of repetitions that follows more than compensates...
...Professor Kennedy Shortridge of the University of Hong Kong has run blood tests on birds, animals and people in the territory, in Taiwan, in Jiangsu province and in the Pearl River Delta. Especially in the latter two places, he found farmers with antibodies suggesting exposure to every single type of flu that exists in other species. So it's just a matter of time before one of those types adapts to human beings and takes...