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Daybreak: Overdue Justice for Daniel Pearl?

Plus U.S. chides UN Human Rights Council for excessive focus on Israel

by
Adam Chandler
March 19, 2013
Daniel Pearl(ABC )
Daniel Pearl(ABC )

• Qari Abdul Hayee, the alleged leader of the terrorist group responsible for the abduction and killing of Daniel Pearl in 2002, has reportedly been arrested in Karachi. [PerthNow]

• U.S. delegates at a UN Human Rights Council meeting refused to participate in a meeting about Israeli settlements yesterday and slammed the group’s “disproportionate” focus on Israel. [JTA]

• Jeffrey Goldberg, who himself is secretly Jordanian, sat down with Jordan’s King Abdullah II and spoke about Jordan’s precarious perch in the middle of the Arab Spring. [Atlantic]

• Judy Kuhn performs ‘Loving You’ from Sondheim’s musical “Passion,” which is currently in revival. [NYT]

• Aly Raisman finished in second place in the season’s first night of ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ I didn’t watch it. Seriously. I was busy. [THR]

Adam Chandler was previously a staff writer at Tablet. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.