Angelina Jolie: Pimp My Picture, Not My Life!

Mariane Pearl was five months pregnant when her husband, the American journalist Daniel Pearl, was brutally murdered by a militant Islamic fundamentalist group in February 2002. Determined not to be broken, she has written a book called A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of my Husband Daniel Pearl. She lives in New York with her 18-month-old son, Adam.

When I heard that Omar Sheikh had been found guilty of Danny’s murder, I wrote to President Musharraf of Pakistan to ask for the death penalty. The death penalty is not a solution, and asking for it isn’t about revenge, but I believe that in this particular case the death penalty is justice; it is society punishing someone for murder. For Pakistan it is also a strong political statement against terrorism. However, Omar Sheikh won’t pay for Danny’s life with his life, and the death penalty doesn’t make me feel any better.

I have no reason to forgive Omar Sheikh. I was told he wanted to apologise to me, but I refused to meet him. The man is a psychopath and I don’t believe his apology would be genuine. Maybe he felt a flicker of remorse because he too has a wife and a little boy, but there would be no value in our meeting.

Personally I could easily kill Omar Sheikh, but I prefer to leave it up to Pakistan’s justice system. There is a huge difference between taking revenge into your own hands and leaving it up to the law. I was totally against the Iraq war. People think they’ll feel better if a bit more of the enemy is destroyed. But in fact, so often it is only innocent people who die, and eventually you forget why you started fighting in the first place. Revenge is a basic human instinct, the animal part of man, and it gets us nowhere. Not to retaliate doesn’t mean you’re weak. In fact, being able to rise above your instincts is a sign of strength – far more heroic than bombing another country or planning a suicide mission. Dialogue is the ultimate act of courage, far more courageous than killing someone.

But forgiveness is too lame as an answer to extreme situations. It’s not a value strong enough to stand on. You have to win some sort of victory over the people who have hurt you, and you can only do that by denying the terrorists their goal. They try to kill everything in you – initiative, hope, confidence, dialogue. The only way to oppose them is by demonstrating the strength they think they have taken from you. That strength is to keep on living, to keep on valuing life. So now it’s up to me to create something of my life. Danny’s parents have started a Foundation in his name, and I’m making small gains step by step. First by giving birth to Adam, then by writing my book.

http://www.theforgivenessproject.com/stories/mariane-pearl

Angelina has her own freedom to express herself as Fox news has its freedom of press. Unfortunately, Fox lost track of the purpose why Angie/or her lawyer wanted to focus on the movie, A Mighty Heart. Fox reacted consistently and that is why I never watch anything Fox news which equates to TV journalism at its worst.

Angie congratulations!!!! We love you.

Only those reporters, journalists and media people with bad intentions left. If I were Brad and Angie, I would make sure to remember the honest ones that stayed.

A word of advice to Journalists

Due to the nature of this movie and the seriousness of it as to the danger of journalism, it is in your best interest to fcus on the movie. So many journalists have died in the course of duty since Daniel Pearl and I think that should be the focus. Shame on any journalist that choose to be petty.

There is a time & place for personal questions. Last night’s premiere for A Mighty Heart was just that, a USpremiere for the film.

Leave the personal stuff for the women’s magazines. There are so many of us who are actual film lovers and are tired of reading about actors and their private lives. We are film fans. We want to hear about the films and their creators. I chalk this one for film fans around the world who could care less about what goes on in their private lives.

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WELL DONE ANGIE!!!

it is time for some stupid reporters to stop asking the same stupid question over and over
like how many kids are you going to adopt, how many kids are you going to have, are you not planning to get marry ever etc etc etc SHEZZZZZZ!!!!

Angie was there to promote the movie and not her life!!!

and besides Angie has said already all she had to about her life with Brad and the Kids so SHUT IT HATERS AND GO AWAY!!!

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Forgot to change your name?

I don’t know why people can’t just accepted she wants to have some focus on this movie. For **** sake its about one of her friends husband’s murder! She just wants a little respect shown them!

One reporter from a major outlet said, “I wouldn’t sign it. Who does she think she is?”

WELL, SHE IS ANGELINA JOLIE!

Its totally disheartening that the media is making a big deal out of this. it only goes to show (to those who backed out) that their interest was not really on the film she’s promoting but to her personal life. Its not like she refuses to share about her life– which she did recently in Esquire, RD, Marie Claire—
there is a time for everything. All she probably wanted was to seriously focus on the film and what it entails, not her life at the moment.

Didn’t Brad ban some reporters from the OC13 footprinting event? Absolutely can’t have anything to do with the serious nature of the film there, ya know. LOL

So WTH DO you think this pair of posers is trying to hide.

WTH? You can’t read either? Fox printed the story but OTHER networks & media ALSO canceled and refused to sign. Stop trying to make it a p*ssing contest between Fox and your Goddess Ho.

JIM LEHRER: Mariane Pearl, widow of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and then murdered by terrorists in Pakistan. She’s now in the United States on her way to Paris for the birth of her first child, a son, in May. Mariane Pearl is a 34-year-old freelance journalist. She and Daniel Pearl were married in 1999. They had been living in Bombay, India, where he was the Journal’s South Asia bureau chief at the time they went to Karachi, Pakistan, to cover aspects of the war on terrorism. I spoke with Mariane Pearl this morning at her Washington hotel.

JIM LEHRER: Mariane Pearl Welcome.

MARIANE PEARL: Thank you

JIM LEHRER: As you know there was another act of terrorism in Pakistan involving some Americans — somebody threw a grenade in a church — two Americans, three others killed, forty more wounded - should this just be seen as another episode in the war on terrorism?

MARIANE PEARL: Most likely. I don’t have the details as to what happened - but apparently it was an act committed against foreigners. It’s happened right in an area of Islamabad that is called, is known as Islamabad diplomatic enclave - a well-protected area where all the embassies are, so I don’t have the details of the investigation but -yes.

Daniel Pearl

JIM LEHRER: This is part of - this is what it was going to be for a while - do you agree with that - in other words, the death of your husband, the kidnapping and death of your husband, the episode yesterday, this is something we’re just going to have to get used to?

MARIANE PEARL: My feeling is, yes. I think - my feeling is that the killing of Danny was not an isolated act but part of a longer process with, you know - different acts of terrorism, which goal is to paralyze us, to prevent any kind of collaboration between Pakistan and maybe other countries we don’t know and the West basically. So I don’t know if getting used to it is the right, the proper word, but we’re going to have to stand up against it.

JIM LEHRER: Have you come to understand why your husband was singled out for kidnapping and killing?

MARIANE PEARL: Understand. Well, as I said, you know, a lot of people, usually when you kidnap someone, you try to exchange him for somebody else or you try to get a ransom. My feeling is that the killing of Danny was more of a declaration of war basically. If you see the e-mails that have been sent to us are very murky - they’re not asking something specific to release Danny but saying this is a warning, this is the beginning of a war against the West. America they call it - so it is not - it’s not a killing that makes any sense.

JIM LEHRER: You think he was chosen just because he was an American, an American journalist?

MARIANE PEARL: I think so. It’s difficult to say right now because he is an American journalist but also a person writing about those issues, terrorism, like most journalists were doing at the time. It was a big story. So it’s not clear. I don’t know yet whether it was because of the story he was writing because one of the stories he wrote just before getting kidnapped was about how the crackdown on terrorists was maybe not as completed as the government was saying it was. So that might have angered people. I do believe that he was chosen as a symbol of journalists getting into the country and reporting, American, and just the West, you know.

Seeking justice
JIM LEHRER: Are you satisfied with the progress that’s being made by the Pakistani government in finding who’s responsible and punishing them?

MARIANE PEARL: I’ll be satisfied when they have everybody arrested and punished and justice is done only. The Pakistani police I have to say have been amazing. They’re very resourceful in terms of, policing the investigation, they’re very, very good policemen, but they have very little resources. And the truth of the matter is that when they started trying to find Danny, the first day of his kidnapping, the next day of his kidnapping, we had to provide them with a printer to - you know - scan the photos of Danny and provide them with flashlights, and there was only one car. You had to push you know for the car to start - it had one light - you know. It was just amazing.

So the lack of resources was something scary - very scary especially when you have to face tech savvy people who have means and technology. They were terrorists that are educated and know how to handle technology. The police in front of them and I think that’s the case probably also in this church bombing and anything else is going to happen is, you know, a handful of very courageous, very capable policemen but had nothing in terms of tools.

JIM LEHRER: What can the United States do to help them? What more can be done?

MARIANE PEARL: A lot.

JIM LEHRER: A lot

MARIANE PEARL: A lot. But I’ve met with President Bush here in Washington and I’ve met with Ms. Rice, Condoleezza Rice, and with Colin Powell and we’ve talked about that. Because the first thing that I really wanted to do after, not even leaving Pakistan because I also met with President Musharraf, is tell the world you know these people, these handful of people I was telling you about is fighting the war on behalf of all of us, because this is, you know, I think an international war - international network of terrorists - with nothing. So I did that.

JIM LEHRER: When you left Pakistan, did you have the feeling that it was still that way? I mean, they had, as you say, they couldn’t find your husband after he was kidnapped, still haven’t found his body, and they apparently haven’t even found enough evidence to even hold up a conviction of some kind. Is that not changed?

MARIANE PEARL: It’s changed a little, but it’s a complicated setting. First of all, because of Pakistan, itself. Karachi is a very huge city of 14 million people, it’s a poor city of 12 million people. It’s very easy to hide in Karachi. So it’s also the nature of the country and its politics complicated, I think. President Musharraf has made me a promise and I hold him to his promise to find the real people and not to be -

JIM LEHRER: He said that to you directly?

MARIANE PEARL: He said that to me directly and he wrote me a letter that I keep very preciously with and very strong commitment to find the people. But to answer your question, there’s also a big obstacle that he faces inside his own country. The setting in Pakistan of justice and law enforcement is more complicated that you would find in the United States. In terms of different agencies and Pakistani intelligence - I’m not clear the role they played in the kidnapping of Danny. You were mentioning the main suspect. This main suspect stayed for one week with the Pakistani intelligence right in the middle of the investigation - I don’t know exactly why. So I raised those questions with President Musharraf.

UPDATE: Father’s Day plans for the Jolie-Pitts! Brad told Extra, “It’s Father’s Day around the corner? I didn’t even know…I’ll just get up with my kids, that’s enough for me!”

Angelina laughed about her plans for Brad: “Well if I tell you, then he’ll know! …The kids are making things.

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Awww…too cute.

In the past, celebs watch helplessly as the media spins lies and half-truths about their lives…the Media had all the control, now that someone is wrestling it from them, they cry foul. Ha ha ha ha…Honestly, I don’t know why this makes me giddy with pleasure. I wanna sit back, rub my hands together and say “Exxxxxxcellent” Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

AJ continues to prove she is not and will never be a VICTIM. how can you not admire that kind of spirit?