Bhutto of Pakistan killed

Just reported in a special report on the news. There are conflicting reports on the internet at the moment.

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4888

 

I saw it on NBC. So many more people will die needlessly because of her death. With this happening, I can tell you right now that 2008 is going to be a turbulent year for the world.

 

That's what you get when you try to bring Democracy to a people who just aren't too ready for it yet.

Very noble though.

 

Let's also withdraw aid, think the Pakistanis would be for that?

 

Fanatics are funny people.

They'll kill you if you preach democracy, while they'll bitch at you if you even think about withdrawing aid.

Welcome to the middle east.

 

Why do we meddle in the Middle East?

 

You tell me.

I think America should stay the fuck away from anywhere that's not America.

It's not gonna happen though. Greeeeeeeeeeeeeed and pooooooooooower hunger thrive.

 

:lol:

 

with her death, things could turn very dicey in an unstable country that has nukes.

america has been meddling in other countries affairs far too long and we need to keep our fucking noses out. let the people of a country decide what they want.

 

They say the SOB who shot her then blew himself up, killing at least 22 more people. All in the name of Allah. Was he expecting his 72 virgins?

Actually most of the people there would welcome democracy but the minority who oppose it are the ones who are willing to go to any length no matter how evil.

Among other things Benazir Bhutto wanted good relations with America, and perhaps that more than anything is what doomed her.

 

This was a bad move on the part of these terrorist. What better way to turn the majority of the world against you.

 

This should make it easy for Musharraf to put off elections.

 

Bhutto buried as Pakistan unrest spreads


By ASHRAF KHAN, Associated Press Writer



GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH, Pakistan - Hundreds of thousands of mourners, weeping and chanting for justice, thronged the mausoleum of Pakistan's most famous political dynasty in a raw outpouring of grief for Benazir Bhutto. The government blamed al-Qaida and the Taliban for the assassination of the opposition leader, who was buried alongside her father.

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Furious supporters, many of them blaming President Pervez Musharraf's government for the shooting and bombing attack on the former prime minister, rampaged through several cities in violence that left at least 23 dead less than two weeks before crucial elections.

Some wept, others chanted "Benazir is alive," as the plain wood coffin was placed beside the grave of her father in the vast, white marble mausoleum in southern Sindh province near the Bhuttos' ancestral home.

Thursday's attack on Bhutto plunged Pakistan into turmoil and badly damaged plans to restore democracy in this nuclear-armed nation, a key U.S. ally in the war on terror.

Musharraf initially blamed her death on unnamed Islamic militants, but Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz told The Associated Press on Friday that "we have the evidence that al-Qaida and the Taliban were behind the suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto."

He said investigators had resolved the "whole mystery" behind the opposition leader's killing and would give details at press conference later Friday.

Bhutto's supporters ransacked banks, waged shootouts with police and burned trains and stations in a spasm of violence less than two weeks before parliamentary elections.

Soldiers patrolled the streets of the southern cities of Hyderabad and Karachi in an effort to quell violence, witnesses said. At least 23 people were killed in unrest, said Ghulam Mohammed Mohtaram, home secretary for Sindh province.

Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro said the government had no immediate plans to postpone Jan. 8 parliamentary elections, despite the growing chaos and a top opposition leader's decision to boycott the poll.

"Right now the elections stand where they were," he told a news conference. "We will consult all the political parties to take any decision about it."

Mourners traveled to Garhi Khuda Bakhsh by tractor, bus, car and jeep. Many crammed inside the mausoleum and threw petals on the coffin. Women beat their heads and chests in grief.

"As long as the moon and sun are alive, so is the name of Bhutto," they chanted.

An Islamic cleric led mourners in prayers and Bhutto's son, Bilawal, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, helped lower the coffin beside the grave of her father, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, also a popular former prime minister who met a violent death. Thousands of supporters then filed in to shovel dirt onto the grave.

Some mourners angrily blamed Musharraf, the former army chief, for Bhutto's death, shouting "General, killer!" "Army, killer."

The death of the 54-year-old Bhutto left her party without a clear successor. Her husband, who was freed in December 2004 after eight years in detention on graft charges, is one contender to head the party, although he lacks the cachet of a blood relative.

"I don't know what will happen to the country now," said Nazakat Soomro, 32.

Bhutto's funeral procession began at her ancestral residence in the southern town of Naudero. Her plain wood coffin, draped in the red, green and black flag of her Pakistan People's Party, was carried in a white ambulance toward the marble mausoleum, about three miles away, passing a burning passenger train on the way.



Violence roared through much of the country. A mob in Karachi looted at least three banks and set them on fire, and engaged in a shootout with police that left three officers wounded, police said.

About 7,000 people in the central city of Multan ransacked seven banks and a gas station and threw stones at police, who responded with tear gas. In the capital, Islamabad, about 100 protesters burned tires in a commercial district.

Paramilitary rangers were given the authority to use live fire against rioters in southern Pakistan, said Maj. Asad Ali, the rangers' spokesman.

"We have orders to shoot on sight," he said.

Army soldiers patrolled the streets of Hyderabad and Karachi, witnesses said. In Hyderabad, the soldiers refused to let people out of their houses, witnesses said.

Earlier, mobs burned 10 railway stations and several trains across Bhutto's Sindh province, forcing the suspension of all train service between the city of Karachi and the eastern Punjab province, said Mir Mohammed Khaskheli, a senior railroad official.

The rioters uprooted one section of the track leading to India, he said.

An Associated Press reporter saw nine cars of a train completely burned. Witnesses said all the passengers were pulled out before the train was torched.

About 4,000 Bhutto supporters rallied in the northwestern city of Peshawar and several hundred ransacked the empty office of the main pro-Musharraf party, burning furniture and stationery.

Protesters shouted "Musharraf dog" and "Bhutto was alive yesterday, Bhutto is alive today." Dozens of police in riot gear followed the protesters but did not intervene.

In other violence, a roadside bomb killed a local leader from the ruling party and six of his associates as they drove through Swat in northwestern Pakistan, where troops have been fighting followers of a pro-Taliban cleric in recent months, said Mohib Ullah, a local police official.

Many cities were nearly deserted as businesses closed and public transportation came to a halt at the start of three days of national mourning for Bhutto.

A coalition of opposition parties called for a general strike, said Mohammed Usman Kakar, a leader in the All Parties Democratic Movement, which comprises small anti-Musharraf groups.

"The repercussions of her murder will continue to unfold for months, even years," read a mournful editorial in the Dawn newspaper. "What is clear is that Pakistan's political landscape will never be the same, having lost one of its finest daughters."

Bhutto was killed after a suicide attacker shot at her and then blew himself up as she left a rally, police and witnesses said. Authorities initially said she died from bullet wounds, but Dr. Mussadiq Khan, a surgeon who treated her, said Friday that she died from shrapnel that hit her on the right side of the skull.

Bhutto had no heart beat or pulse when she arrived at the hospital and doctors failed to resuscitate her, he said.

Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said he saw the medical report, and it, too, said she died from a shrapnel wound and was not shot. "No bullet was found in her body," he said.

Soomro, the prime minister, told the Cabinet on Friday that Bhutto's husband did not allow an autopsy, according to a government statement.

After the killing, Nawaz Sharif, another former premier and leader of a rival opposition party, announced his party would boycott the elections.

"I am worried about the country, about the people. Nobody is secure, there is total insecurity," Sharif said.

Opposition politician and former cricket star Imran Khan blamed Musharraf for Bhutto's death, saying he did not give her proper security. Speaking to reporters in Mumbai, India, where he was on a private visit, he called on the president to resign and for an independent judicial probe into her death.

Bhutto, whose party has long been popular among Pakistan's legions of poor, served two terms as prime minister between 1988 and 1996. Both elected governments were toppled amid accusations of corruption and mismanagement, but she was respected in the West for her liberal outlook and determination to combat Islamic extremism. She had been vying for a third term if her party fared well in the Jan. 8 parliamentary elections.


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I found myself only speculating at this point that perhaps the lower ranking service men in the Inter Services Intelligence of Pakistan did it, I then again speculated that islamic fanatics infiltrated the lower rankings of the Inter Services Intelligence or some service men in the Inter Services Intelligence could quite possibally be in tune with or have ties to Al-qeada or Taliban. So, my speculation at this point is she was set up by islamic fanatics who infiltrated or had connections to the lower rankings of the Inter Services Intelligence.

Bhutto being assassated could also have a disastrous cause and effect because there is nolonger any opposition with as much political sway nor anyone bold enough to stand up and work toward a real reform for pakistan. Hell, she lost her life over it. Also the nuclear weapons could fall right into fantical hands espeically if Murshariff decides to step down. Pakistan will have utter chaos which will create a power vacuum possibally resulting in a civil war if such an action is decided.

A more devious thought I decided not to go with was perhaps Murshariff could be the one who had her assassinated so he wouldn't have to lose money, lift the state of emergency, or share power with her if she won the election and became prime minister. But then I remembered Murshariff granted her amnesty and rigs the elections anyway so it wouldn't make any sense for him to have her assassinated.

That's just what I thought after hearing about it I'm more than likely dead wrong.

It probabally would have been more accurate of me to just speculate Al qeada did it without any ISI involvement at this point and time since nothing has been confirmed yet.

 

Excellent point. We were not surprised when the news hit the wire. We knew there were going to be more assassination attempts, and there was a general consensus that it was going to happen. Security was something of a questionable nature.

 

she was harvard educated. you act like she is a savage living among savages.

 

Are we starting to realize the type of people the world is dealing with?

 

IMO she was one brave lady who -in the face of almost certain death- still came out to offer her people a chance at democracy, equal rights, and freedom from theocratic, patriarchal, dark-age fuckwits.

 

One less zillionaire bloodsucking war profiteer.

 

Each and every one of them is a savage? Yeah right. Whatever little credibility you may have had was lost when you made that ridiculous statement. You're an ignorant jerk.