Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto assasinated

She wasn't killed by "extremists" it was done by people from her own family and her own party. The "extremists" are just the patsies and perhaps the hitmen, not the masterminds or the co-conspirators.

Who refused to get her body autopsied?

Who told her to stick her head out of the car at that moment?

Who would have known exactly when to tell her to stick her head out and coaxed her into it?

Who is now refusing to have her body exumed?

Who inherited more than a billion dollars suddenly, who is taking over the reigns of the PPP?

Whether she was killed by the bullet or the bomb is irrelevant, I don't know why people are so hung up about it.

In her will she left the leadership of the PPP to her son, with her husband as regent. How democratic is that?

Originally posted by Sparten She hit her head due to the force of the blast on the armoured sides of the jeep. She was not shot. If she had been half her face would have been missing due to the exit hole.

i saw a clip on TV where a man shot his pistol twice in the direction of her backhead.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dZc55ujAL6g

Murdered by extremists she helped to create

By Ahmed Rashid in Lahore
Last Updated: 2:56am GMT 29/12/2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/29/wbhutto329.xml
 
The Pakistan government's belief that al-Qa'eda was responsible for the attack on Benazir Bhutto comes as little surprise given her public commitment to root out Islamist extremists if elected prime minister.
 
Those who carried out the attack were likely to have been volunteers with groups linked to the so-called Pakistani Taliban, who were trained by elements of al-Qa'eda.
 
But the expanding network of al-Qa'eda and associated groups in Pakistan owes much to the contradictory policies of successive governments which have favoured some terrorists while hunting down others.
 
Even Miss Bhutto allowed extremist groups to flourish during her last stint as prime minister in the 1990s. The Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan received support from her government, while Pakistani Islamist fighters were given backing as they tried to wrest control of the divided region of Kashmir from India.
 
However, it is President Pervez Musharraf who has done most to undermine efforts to combat terrorism and turned Pakistan into the epicentre for al-Qa'eda, the Taliban and other groups.
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Today, Islamist extremists in Pakistan - rather than in Iraq or Afghanistan - are the main threat to global stability. Since 2004 every fatal or foiled terrorist plot in Europe and elsewhere, has had its origins in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
 
The al-Qa'eda campaign in Pakistan is being spearheaded by the Pakistani Taliban, who in recent months have captured large tracts of territory in the Pashtun tribal belt in the north-west.
 
Lately, they have occupied the Swat valley, just over 60 miles from Islamabad and the centre of the country's tourist trade.
 
The Pakistani Taliban are now a major force in every city in the North West Frontier Province.
 
They are led by Baitullah Mehsud, who warned in October that his suicide bombers were waiting to kill Miss Bhutto when she returned home from exile.
 
The Pakistani interior ministry has released the transcript of what it claimed to be a telephone conversation between Mehsud and another militant, in which he congratulated a "tremendous effort" by "really brave boys" in the assassination of Miss Bhutto.
       
The inside of Benazir Bhutto's vehicle after her death
Benazir Bhutto's shoes lie on the floor of her vehicle's bloodstained interior
 
The Pakistani Taliban are mostly Pashtun tribesmen who were influenced by al-Qa'eda after they helped its leaders seek refuge following September 11, 2001.
 
At the behest of the US, Pakistan's army conducted a policy of capturing or killing Arab members of al-Qa'eda. However, it left the Afghan Taliban alone, as it distrusted the regime of President Hamid Karzai, which it accused of being pro-Indian.
 
The military wanted to keep the Afghan Taliban as a potential proxy force. And after 2004 the army even gave up the chase against al-Qa'eda, once it realised that the US focus was on Iraq rather than on Afghanistan.
 
The Pakistani Taliban became more dangerous after they began to train militants from Islamist extremist groups in the nation's cities. It is these educated urban militants who, it is believed, exploded the bombs that killed 134 in Karachi as Miss Bhutto returned home from exile in October.
 
The Pakistani Taliban has also used the Pashtun tribal network to develop well-placed supporters inside the army and the Pakistani intelligence services.
 
Several recent suicide bombings which have killed hundreds of army personnel in barracks within Pakistan's cities could only have taken place with inside knowledge.
 
The US has given Pakistan �5 billion since 2001, three quarters of which has been spent on the country's military.
 
In the future, it will need to link such aid to targets on dealing with terrorists if its money is not to be squandered.
 
This is a translation from the raw transcript of the alleged telephone conversation between Baitullah Mehsud, a senior al-Qa'eda leader, and another militant, which the Pakistan interior ministry said had been intercepted after the assassination.
 
Maulvi Sahib (MS): Asalaam Aleikum (Peace be with you).
 
Baitullah Mehsud (BM): Waaleikum Asalaam (And also with you).
 
MS: Chief, how are you?
 
BM: I am fine.
 
MS: Congratulations, I just got back during the night.
 
BM: Congratulations to you. Were they our men?
 
MS:: Yes, they were ours.
 
BM: Who were they?
 
MS: There was Saeed, there was Bilal from Badar and Ikramullah.
 
BM: The three of them did it?
 
MS: Ikramullah and Bilal did it.
 
BM: Then congratulations.
 
MS: Where are you? I want to meet you.
 
BM: I am at Makeen (town in the South Waziristan tribal region). Come over, I am at Anwar Shah's house.
 
MS: OK, I'll come.
 
BM: Don't inform their house for the time being.
 
MS: OK.
 
BM: It was a tremendous effort. They were really brave boys who killed her.
 
MS: Mashallah (Thank God). When I come I will give you all the details.
 
BM: I will wait for you. Congratulations, once again congratulations.
 
MS: Congratulations to you.
 
BM: Anything I can do for you?
 
MS: Thank you very much.
 
BM: Asalaam Aleikum.
 
MS: Waaleikum Asalaam.

Yes. But it is also true that her party has a lot of genuine support in urban areas.

She was no democrat. She never was that. A feudal through and through.

She hit her head due to the force of the blast on the armoured sides of the jeep. She was not shot. If she had been half her face would have been missing due to the exit hole.

So how did Bhutto die? From what I've gathered from reading here is there was an explosion and she just hit her head on something from the blast, is that what happened?

Actually, Pakistan's nukes can only effect the Asian continent. The Indians and Iranis have alot more to fear than the Americans.

Edited by Mughaal - 30-Dec-2007 at 04:22

Time for Conspiracy Theories. Yay! a favorite Pakistani pastime.

Edited by Mughaal - 30-Dec-2007 at 08:57