Bhutto. Where was the security?
Bob Morris @ Dec 28th 2007 10:54 - Category: Politics Tags: Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan
There were multiple snipers shooting armor-piercing bullets, a decoy suicide bomb, and two of the snipers blew themselves up after firing. There was another attack at the hospital.
A working theory, according to this American source, is that Al Qaeda or affiliated jihadist groups had effectively suborned at least one unit of Pakistan’s Special Services Group, the country’s equivalent of Britain’s elite SAS commandos.
Or not. But clearly they were stone cold professionals. With help.
Police officers had frisked the 3,000 to 4,000 people attending Thursday’s rally when they entered the park, but as the speakers from Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party droned on, the police abandoned many of their posts.
Tip: FDL, who also has a fascinating piece by someone who knew Bhutto as a student at Harvard and says she was being groomed, even then, to lead Pakistan.
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reader on 28 Dec 2007 at 11:58 am #
See this clip of Bhutto telling David Frost that Osama Bin Laden was murdered:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg
First I have heard of this…