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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-12-08 09:12 AM
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Larisa Alexandrovna: New Docs Show - Musharraf Knows Far More That He's Admitted About Murder
Edited on Sat Jan-12-08 09:13 AM by kpete
McClatchy's latest on Bhutto, must read...
Landay, as always, does a stellar job on this:

"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two new reports on the assassination last month of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto suggest that the killing may have been an ambitious plot rather than an isolated act of violence and that the government of President Pervez Musharraf knows far more than it's admitted about the murder.

A police officer who witnessed the assassination said that a mysterious crowd stopped Bhutto's car that day, moving her to emerge through the sunroof. And a document has surfaced in the Pakistani news media that contradicts the government's version of her death and contains details on the pistol and the suicide bomb used in the murder."


more at:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/24637.html

"According to the document, which the paper described as a "top agency" preliminary report, a pistol made by Norinco, a Chinese brand, was recovered from the scene, with the lot number 311-90. An MUV-2 triggering mechanism for the bomb also was found, as had been used in 15 previous suicide bombings in Pakistan, with the same lot number and factory code.

"It is a clear indicator that the same terrorist group is involved in almost all these incidents," concluded the report, which the paper quoted at length.

Another mystery of the case is why so valuable a report has been buried. Among its other conclusions: Bhutto's assassin, after shooting her, detonated his own suicide belt. No ambulance was called, and it took 25 minutes to get her to the hospital, only two miles from the scene."


Finally, what is also becoming clear to me is that these factions in the ISI-Military mechanism are also done with any pretense in being allied with the US. They no longer have to as the opium trade is booming, and they are making overtures to the Russians. To put this rather delicately, the people of Pakistan are screwed no matter who replaces Musharraf and the US is screwed because it looks like we are actually the losers of the Cold War.

more from Larisa at:
http://www.atlargely.com/2008/01/mcclatchys-late.html
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Satyagrahi Donating Member (254 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-12-08 09:25 AM
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1. "The same terrorist group is involved in almost all these incidents".
The same terrorist group that targeted the Pakistani army, the police and even the ISI with suicide attacks. Go figure!
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