Who Killed Benazir?

[L. Coyote]

Source: Wired

Who Killed Benazir? (Updated)
By Noah Shachtman - Dec 28, 2007

Al-Qaeda has already claimed credit for the assassination of Benzair Bhutto, Pakistan's former prime minister. But this crime has plenty of suspects -- any combination of whom might have been working together. Here's a line-up of the potential killers...

* Al-Qaeda & Co. The Washington Post puts the terror group and its allies in Afghanistan and Pakistan at the "top of the list." Bin Laden and Bhutto were old foes. And the Pakistani government has certainly been quick to finger the jihadists. ''We have the evidence that al Qaeda and Taliban were behind the suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto,'' Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz told the AP. ......

Read more: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/12/who-killed-bena.html

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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. "...After all it was you and me."

:think:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. actually AQ said they DIDN'T do it. Pakistan claimed they have

a recording of AQ claiming they did it. Not exactly the same thing.

and Pakistan said boo about who until Condi's State dept. issued a press release hinting that AQ was involved.

The way that the medical diagnosis as to cause of death changed over time, the lack of an autopsy, the muzzling of certain witnesses, the martial law, the refusal to allow independent exams of her body, and the lack of security, despite multiple requests, even directed to US State, (and ignored by Condi)

well, I suggest that it was not Musharif, but a rogue (?) element of the military. The ones who stole billions in US cash, and were afraid of being accountable.

[dantyrant]

3. I agree... Musharraf's already on such thin ice

and he knows enough about tactics to have not gotten involved.

The military, OTOH, had plenty of reason to distrust Bhutto - she had proposed escalating the War on Terror in Waziristan, a cause almost universally unpopular among Pakistanis. Islamism is NOT a threat to Pakistan to the same degree that we are lead to believe here, and this is especially true in the major urban centers of Pakistan. To the extent that Islamism *does* take hold, we must suspect the complicity of the ISI, if only because we've seen from history how they've helped to nurture such movements before.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. It wouldn't surprise me if Bush & co has been financing Al-Qaida for their own purposes. nt