Benazir Bhutto put under house arrest.... fuck

[MonkeyFunk]

just a banner on MSNBC now.

[RB TexLa]

1. saw that one comming

[Massacure]

2. Bad news bears...

That isn't going to end well...

[TwilightGardener]

3. Well, ain't that the shits. Now what?

[libnnc]

4. Not good....

checking the BBC right now

Per Beeb news crawl
House of Pakistan oppositions leader surrounded by police...more soon

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/default.stm

[magellan]

5. For her own "protection", I'll bet

Hell.

[KharmaTrain]

22. Actually You're Probably Right...Musharaf Needs Her Safe

Methinks Musharraf is fighting not just the lawyers and the courts, but his own military as well. Any harm done to Bhutto would kick his mess into a gear Musharaff couldn't "control". Musharaff serves as long as the general around him say he does. As tends to be the case in military dictatorships (which this has always been), the generals like the power, not the spotlight. If the light gets too bright, he'll be taken care of. It's in his best interests to keep her alive and "safe" and hope the unrest "burns out".

Personally, I see this as a desparation move against his own generals...as the most likely person to take Bhutto out would probably be to his right, not to his left.

[magellan]

23. Hmm, hadn't thought of it that way

I just hope her supporters don't take to the streets in response. I heard on the BBC that would be a distinct possibility if Mushy tried something like this.

Ah, the joys of dictatorship! Bush** will be drooling in envy.

[malaise]

29. She attempted to break house arrest

but they have increased the number of armed police around her house.
Meanwhile a Minister's house was attacked with a suicide bomb -four people died but not the minister.

[villager]

6. Li'l Bush's pal in Pakistan strikes again!

n/t

[bdamomma]

34. he is another slimy POS just like *.

[Warpy]

7. Surprised it took this long

I expected it to happen the night she returned to Pakistan.

Mushy is not helping his cause by taking that step.

[MonkeyFunk]

8. No, he's not

but chaos and anarchy in Pakistan will not be good for the world.

[lonestarnot]

12. What now a smart bomb to her house?

[Fenris]

9. She really shouldn't have gone back to Pakistan

[EFerrari]

10. No, she shouldn't have. Pakistan has been a tinderbox for a long time.

[aquart]

25. People remember who stayed and who left.

[rusty quoin]

11. Yes., a mistake from the beginning. n/t

[MonkeyFunk]

13. I don't know....

one side says stability is the most important factor, but the other side says democracy trumps all. The problem is that the stakes are so high there.

[Fenris]

15. It's certainly a global flashpoint

There's probably no good outcome to the current crisis. Once again, we're right in the middle of it.

[Lucinda]

21. I can see why she would have gone back

but I cannot say I am surprised that this has happened. It may cause him more trouble than he expects. I hope so.

[MonkeyFunk]

27. I don't blame her.

She seems to love her country and wants to save it from Musharraf.


But who really knows? Everything is so fucked up over there, I don't really know what to think. But I believe Musharraf is a dick.

[Lucinda]

36. Yep. I Wish I could have heard what I was seeing on the tv this morning

I was sitting in the (noisy) hospital waiting for a CT scan and they were covering Pakistan. They showed a unarmed woman getting beaten and it literally took my breath away. All I could catch was that they stopped Bhutto's car from leaving her home and that she supposedly called for a new protest date.

I hate this.

[Frustratedlady]

14. I want to hear what Biden has to say.

To hell with Bush. He just got around to talking to Musharraf yesterday.

[bdamomma]

35. Biden and Kerry were working on a bill together about this.

and I bet Biden will call Pakistan again today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2237770

[stlsaxman]

16. Not on BBC World News.

it's 23:11 central time here...



on edit: damn- there it is... fuck.

[libnnc]

18. Saw a news crawl header on the website

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/default.stm

[Spazito]

17. I wonder if Musharraf ordered that with his uniform on or

whether he did it with his uniform off. That will be the KEY question asked by the media. Very bad news.

[MonkeyFunk]

19. yes, it's very very bad news.

[libnnc]

20. Here's the latest from BBC

Bhutto house surrounded by police

<snip>
The house of Pakistani opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto, has been surrounded by police, hours before her party is due to hold a mass rally.

She has not been formally placed under house arrest, and police say the measure at her residence in Islamabad is for her own safety. <snip>





http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7086272.stm

[aquart]

24. That's better than their first choice: blowing her to bits.

[MonkeyFunk]

26. Meh

I don't think Musharraf was behind that. It's not to his advantage to kill her.

[malaise]

28. I just watched the excitement on BBC international

She was speaking to the Security men surrounding her house.

[OwnedByFerrets]

30. As I am watching this unfold, it sure seems as though I'm

watching a blueprint for the same thing happening here in America.

[underpants]

31. Diiiiiiii

PLOMACY!!!

[bdamomma]

32. that poor woman, she was asking her supporters to fight back

and continue protesting.

[spanone]

33. blackwater is probably guarding her.

[AspenRose]

37. Damn it all.

x(

[Wiley50]

38. "Benazir Had Green Eyes, Like Yours M'Lady, Like Yours"

but every time I see Bhutto

I can't help but think of John Belushi


Good luck to her anyway

[Parche]

39. They Should NUKE Pakistan

Just get it over with........:hi:

[IronLionZion]

40. When is someone going to do a surgical strike on their nuke facilities?

This would be considerably less dangerous if nukes were not sitting there. Let the consequences be damned, we should not have any nuclear armed state vulnerable to overthrow by islamic fundamentalists.