As an Egyptian whose country\’s military dictators are either taken by God or an assassin\’s bullet, I envy the Pakistani people\’s ability to now use the term, \”former president.\”
When The Journal asked me to write a note about the murder of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, I initially declined. I did not feel I had anything insightful or original to add to the dozens of gloomy and desperate articles we have been receiving by Pakistanis and Western analysts in the wake of that horrible tragedy.
The tragic assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will engulf Pakistan in grief and turmoil. Her death symbolizes the wider calamity that envelops us all — throughout the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the United States.
With the pro-U.S. regime of Pervez Musharraf in crisis following the Pakistani president\’s move to suspend his country\’s constitution and scuttle planned parliamentary elections, Israel is watching the developments with great concern.
As the credits rolled after a preview screening of the docudrama, \”A Mighty Heart,\” the audience, consisting of a small group of film critics, sat in stunned silence.\n
In the first publicity releases last summer for the film, \”A Mighty Heart,\” Paramount Vantage announced that filming would begin in the fall and that Angelina Jolie would star as Mariane Pearl. There was no mention of who would play her husband, Daniel Pearl, and it was assumed that director Michael Winterbottom had not yet picked an actor for the role.\n
The British Union cares less about journalists or freedom of the press than it does about blindly condemning the Jewish state…it has everything to do with anti-Israel bigotry.
The Wednesday night preview audience for \”A Mighty Heart,\” which tracks the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl by Islamic extremists, got an unexpected bonus when the film\’s stars, Angelina Jolie and Dan Futterman, dropped in unannounced.\n
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