Bhutto wanted private security
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.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Tag Benazir Bhutto
Benazir assassination: The unprecedented mass reaction
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.…
Bhutto. Not what she seemed to be
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…
Bhutto. Where was the security?
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…
Bhutto assassination
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…