Musharraf wouldn’t allow it. If Bhutto had Blackwater or Armor security, she might still be alive, as the assailant probably couldn’t have gotten anywhere near her car.
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Farooq Tariq, general secretary of Labour Party Pakistan, gives an on-the-ground report of what’s happening in Pakistan now. Serious rioting. A general strike has been called. It is very volatile, unstable, unpredictable, explosive, dangerous, impulsive, fickle and capricious political situation. It never happened before in many years that mass reaction has erupted to this degree. [...] Let’s not forget, Benazir Bhutto was removed as president twice because of corruption. We need have no sympathy with her Islamist assassin and the extremists behind him to recognize that Bhutto was corrupt, divisive, dishonest and utterly devoid of genuine concern for her country. And that’s from the opening paragraphs – the author is [...] 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 [...] So how did the assassin get close enough to Bhutto to be able to shoot her at point blank range? And how did they know when she’d be out of the protective bubble of her car? This seems a well-planned hit that had inside help. The killing was clearly intended to create chaos and [...] Some thoughtful, if apocalyptic, views on the assassination from blogs Moon of Alabama Who did it? Many people will point to Musharraf, as being behind the assassination, but according to the BBC, someone shot Bhutto and then blew himself up. Suicide bombing is not the hallmark of the Pakistani military, but of the takfiris. Bhutto [...] |  | ||||
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