Ministry backtracks on Bhutto sunroof claims (doctors were "threatened")

[Barrett808]

Source: CNN

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's Interior Ministry backtracked Tuesday on its statement that Benazir Bhutto died because she hit her head on a sunroof latch during a shooting and bomb attack.

The government also published a reward offer in several national newspapers to anyone who could identify two suspects from the killing.

...

"There's no intention to conceal anything from the people of Pakistan," an Interior Ministry news release said.

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Athar Minallah, a lawyer on the board that manages Rawalpindi General Hospital, told CNN Monday that doctors did not make the statements attributed to them by the government. ... Minallah issued an open letter Monday and released the doctors' clinical notes to distance them from the government statement.

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Minallah told CNN that he was speaking out because the doctors at the hospital were "threatened."

"They are government servants who cannot speak; I am not," he said. He did not elaborate on the threats against the doctors.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/01/pakistan.autopsy

[Bluebear]

1. "There's no intention to conceal anything from the people of Pakistan." HahahaHAAHAHaha

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

2. This assassination will be one of the great mysteries of the

21st century.

The truth will never come out.

[LakeSamish706]

3. That Government must be out to lunch to think that anyone would believe...

the horse shit story of her banging her head. They must think that everyone in the world just fell off a turnip truck or something. I think the Pakistani people should demand the resignation of Mushie and his entire Government!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. turnip trucks are notorius.

their lies weren't even good lies.

[daleo]

4. Shifting stories

A good indication that you are being lied to.

[Matilda]

5. They're backtracking because nobody believed the story anyway.

So clumsy.

As for identification - I'm sure the two men who carried it out are in
small pieces - probably washed away when the area was so quickly hosed
down.

I think this is one more huge blunder on Musharraf's part - the attack
on the judiciary, the arrests of his opponents, and now assassination of
an opponent. He's panicking; he must be feeling very insecure. Only
the army generals are keeping him in power.

[cascadiance]

7. Another thing I just noticed about the *barely* reported death of BB's sister in law Naheed...

that just happened yesterday according to a report from a Pakistani paper that appears to be subsequently censored, but not before a blog site and Yahoo's cache had got the content off of it.

http://benazibhutto.blogspot.com/2007/12/bbs-relative-killed-in-accident.html

Interesting that it looks to be removed from this Pakistani newspaper after being spidered by Google earlier:

http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=mozilla2&oe=utf-8&um=1&tab=wn&hl=en&q=%22Naheed+Bhutto%22&btnG=Search+News

And that link on that page goes to a page with no content in it:

http://thepost.com.pk/NatNews.aspx?dtlid=136717&catid=2

Here was the cached version from Yahoo (Google didn't have it cached), that basically is the same content of what is showing in the above blog link:

http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=%22Naheed+Bhutto%22&y=Search&fr=yfp-t-501&u=www.thepost.com.pk/NatNews.aspx%3Fdtlid%3D136717%26catid%3D2&w=%22naheed+bhutto%22&d=R-WCjLXiQDWj&icp=1&.intl=us

Another conspiracy?

[Barrett808]

9. Here's the story: "BB’s sister-in-law dies in accident "

BB’s sister-in-law dies in accident
Nazir Siyal

LARKANA: Former prime minister and PPP chairperson (Late) Benazir Bhutto's sister in-law (Bhabi) Naheed Bhutto along with three other employees including driver of Pajero jeep died in a road accident near Jamshoro said Riaz Bhutto the state manager of Benazir Bhutto.

According to the state manager of Late Benazir Bhutto, four people including BB's sister-in-law (Bhabi) Naheed Khan wife of Imdad Khan Bhutto, who is the cousin of Benazir Bhutto and three other employees including driver Muharam Soomro, Rasool Bux and Haji Rabnawaz were died here in road accident.

http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=%22Naheed+Bhutto%22&y=Search&fr=yfp-t-501&u=www.thepost.com.pk/NatNews.aspx%3Fdtlid%3D136717%26catid%3D2&w=%22naheed+bhutto%22&d=R-WCjLXiQDWj&icp=1&.intl=us

BB’s relative killed in accident

Four people, including wife of Benazir Bhutto’s first cousin Imdad Ali Bhutto, died in a road accident on the Indus Highway near the Cadet College Petaro on Monday.

Mehdi Raza Bhutto, the son of Imdad Ali Bhutto, told Dawn that his mother Shabnam Naheed Bhutto, was returning from Larkana after attending Benazir Bhutto’s soyem when her vehicle collided with a truck.

The other victims in the accident are Rasool Bux Korejo, Haji Rabban Korejo and the driver.

http://benazibhutto.blogspot.com/2007/12/bbs-relative-killed-in-accident.html

Thanks for the links!

[defendandprotect]

8. Nothing new . . . another right-wing political assassination and cover-up --- !!!

When we begin to recognize that this is how Repugs have come to power in America,
then we may get somewhere --- !!!

[samsingh]

10. wonderful isn't it - sarcasm off

[Uncle Joe]

11. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Barrett.