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The international bestseller The New York Times called "a gripping synthesis of philosophy and reportage," Lévy's undercover investigation into the gruesome killing of journalist Daniel Pearl leads to stunning revelations about Pakistan's secret nuclear arms trading.
- Sales Rank: #935129 in Books
- Published on: 2004-10-01
- Released on: 2004-09-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.24" h x 5.08" w x 7.96" l, 1.07 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 454 pages
Amazon.com Review
Bernard-Henri Levy's Who Killed Daniel Pearl? offers a harrowing look at Pearl's life and tragic death wrought with a unique blending of journalism, novelist's imagination, and autobiography. Levy--an acclaimed French philosopher and bestselling author in Europe--in 2002 launched a one-year journey to understand Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl and the circumstances that led to his murder in Pakistan; the briskly paced result traces a thread from Pearl's killers through Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and, possibly, to Al-Quaida. In building his case, Levy takes none of the news stories on face value. At great personal risk, he follows the same steps that Pearl walked to the very farm house where the journalist was killed. He seems to question everything and provides bearing witness as the truth-telling reportage required in a nation like Pakistan that "has lost even the very idea of what a free press could be."
From Publishers Weekly
Ostensibly an investigation into the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, this ends up being a much more ambitious account of the nefarious complicity of factions as varied as the Pakistan's ISI (the secret service), regional Islamist groups, a wealthy landowner, Pearl defendant Omar Sheikh and al-Qaida. It's a gripping read, as full of suspenseful twists as of bold and occasionally loose theories. At their root is Sheikh, the English-bred Pakistani radical who was convicted of masterminding the Pearl crime. But this conviction, in the author's fast-moving mind, is far from an open-and-shut case, and L‚vy follows up his preliminary conclusion that "the affair contained a heavy and terrible secret." What that secret is grows and changes, but in the final analysis it comes down to Sheikh being an operative of both the ISI and al-Qaida and then taking the fall for both at the trial. Pearl, Levy argues, was killed not for who he was, but because of what he had discovered. The conclusions, however, are in a sense less important than the ride that gets us there. The author's moments of gonzo journalism are thrilling, as when he penetrates a forbidden madrasa (seminary) by posing as "a special representative of the French president." The earlier passages of the book, which take some literary license in describing what Pearl must have felt, is alone worth the price of admission. This book is a controversial bestseller in France, where Levy has long been a leading philosopher and writer. Here, interest in Pearl and the larger issues makes this both fascinating and essential, even if you don't quite buy it all, and a credit to the investigative reporter whose work it seeks to honor.
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Review
"Mr. Lévy has a good heart and a noble sense of outrage....You cannot but admire a man who has so much compassion for Pearl. And you can't help wishing that at least some of his questions will be answered one day."
- Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal
"Lévy, in a gripping synthesis of philosophy and reportage, follows the trail of the kidnappers to the highest reaches of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency"
-Robert D. Kaplan, The New York Times
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Who Killed Daniel Pearl?
By Jesse L. Maghan
WHO KILLED DANIEL PEARL?
Bernard-Henri Levy
[Melville House Publishing, Hoboken, NJ, 2003]
Seeking the truth embodied in the cadaver of the crime itself, Bernard-Henri Levy has scrupulously developed a superb and on-site forensic profile of the events, the actors, and the intrigues in the fateful five-days, in January 2002, encompassing the kidnapping, torture, and decapitation of the American journalist, Daniel Pearl. "What had Danny discovered, or what was he in the process of discovering, that condemned him to death?"
Levy, author of thirty books, and one of France's most celebrated intellectuals, admits that some of this profile is calculated fiction, but adamantly, the heart and soul of the work is carefully complemented with keen investigative journalism and embedded in a vivid and compelling reconstitution of the deadly maze uniting the perpetrator(s) and the victim. This book is a marvel of esoteric knowledge of the inner workings of terror groups, especially the ones operating in Pakistan.
London born, Omar Sheikh, "is the front figure in a crime syndicate united around Pearl's body in life, and then his cadaver in death...a matchless alignment for a murder that is decidedly one of a kind" involving the arcane militant sect Al Fuqrah, the Muslims of America, the other International Quranic Open University operating under the absolute control of the fundamentalist and radical emir, Pir Murbarak Shah Gilani, Daniel Pearl's last known contact, his last appointment before the kidnapping.
"This crime was not petty, a murder for nothing, an uncontrolled act of fundamentalist fanatics: it's a crime of state, intended and authorized, whether we like it or not, by the state of Pakistan. And that is the fact that we must accept: Daniel Pearl was tortured and murdered in a house belonging to a fake charity organization that serves as a mask for Ormar bin Laden....The paradox, of course, is that it implicates a country, which is a full-fledge member of the antiterrorist coalition." (p273)
The unsaid in this dark diplomacy of death is profoundly highlighted by recent events (January 2004): Pakistan's President Musharraf narrowly escaping spiraling assassination attempts; and, the arrest of several Pakastani nuclear scientists involved in the illicit marketing of weapons of mass destruction.
Levy's illation of these facts indicates a wider curve to the Daniel Pearl murder encompassing terrorist organizations in New York City and the heartland of the United States, as well as an astounding link to the sniper, John Allen Williams aka John Mohammad, that terrorized the Washington, D.C. area in 2002. A convert, who left, the Nation of Islam, John Mohammad assumed the life of a desperado of unbridled hate and nefarious connections of whom the FBI suspect had recruited him in joining not only Al-Fuqrah, but also the Muslims of America.
"Was Daniel Pearl investigating the American branches of al-Qaida? Is the key to the mystery of his death also in the closets on the hard disks of the intelligence agencies of Washington? We're still waiting for a clear and public admission, by those responsible, of this extraordinary historical error in which the leaders of the free world welcomed to their breast and sometimes generated the Golem that we must now drive out from one end of the planet to the other. Perhaps that is what Daniel Pearl was waiting for-perhaps that's what he wanted to provoke."(p431)
Levy's hypothesis is that Pearl was writing an article exposing Pakistan's duplicitous game, whereby it posed on one hand as a good ally of the United States, and on the other leading itself, through its most prestigious scientists, to the most fearsome operations of nuclear proliferation. He asserts that the situation taking form between Islamabad and Karachi "is a black hole compared to which Saddam Hussein's Baghdad was an obsolete weapons dump." Levy poses the question: "Is terrorism the bastard child of a demonic couple: Islam and Europe?" The reader may well pose another: "Is the United States becoming the foster parent of terrorism as well?"
At times, Levy's intricate circumlocution and maze of trails smacks a bit more of the CIA's Atherton (who eventually became paranoid) than of straightforward research; still, I agree that "just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean that they're not after you!" Bernard-Henri Levy's project of recreating a trail to and from the "death hut" sequestered in a walled courtyard in the environs of Karachi will elucidate this crime for years to come. It is a decent and incredible tribute to a brave journalist and a troubling legacy for all of us to share.
This book is a vital and compelling journey into the bowels of the rogue state, the terrorist corpus delecti. It offers the reader a rare opportunity to reach beyond contemporary political and cultural polemics, the prattle of pundits and the distilled rage of religious fundamentalists. It is a solid and necessary read for scholars of terrorism, security policy experts, press, politicians, and the public in seeking to understand the fabric of uncertainty encompassing our times.
Jess Maghan
Chester, Connecticut
January 28, 2004
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Masterpiece about the Psychology of Evil
By M. JEFFREY MCMAHON
With the page-turning suspense of the finest mystery novel, Levy, who risked his life and his sanity to write this book by descending into the bowels of evil, traces the footsteps of Daniel Pearl, a fearless, principled reporter, and not only uncovers the evil behind Pearl's murder, but probes into the psychology of evil that drives Islamisists: the way they define themselves not through a positive conception but by negation: hatred of Jews and Christians and for that matter any nonMuslim. Levy analyzes the sickness of fanaticism: the latent homosexual misogyny, the narcissism, the labyrinth of murky evil, which he describes as "one trap door leader to another and another . . ." Even more frightening, Levy shows that the pathology of hatred exists as a normal condition, nurtured by Islamic fanatics in the madrasas, which work in a symbiotic relationship with the ISI, the secret Pakistani police. In fact, Levi shows that it is Pakistan, not Iraq, which is a principal center of evil and potential apocalypse. All of Levy's revelations are rendered with profound humanity and anger at an evil that is glorified in too many parts of the world.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Who Killed Daniel Pearl
By Transcends
Mr. Levy explores the darkest side of humanity and leaves us with a feeling of bewilderment that can only be checked by surgical extrication of the perpetrators from human existence. This book is made of the essential raw material that represents Al Qaeda vs. Western world order. The redeeming light becomes Daniel Pearl's legacy to humankind: his mind, spirit and descendancy.
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