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Benazir Bhutto Assasinated in Pakistan
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Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been killed in a apparent suicide bombing attack. She had just finished addressing PPP supporters when a gunman opened fire at her, then detonated his bomb.
Bhutto was 54 years old.
[Posted By Namaste_Rich]Republished from BBC
Ms Bhutto had just addressed an election rally in Rawalpindi when she was shot in the neck by a gunman who then set off a bomb.
At least 16 other people died in the attack and several more were injured.
President Pervez Musharraf condemned the killing and urged people to remain calm so that the “nefarious designs of terrorists can be defeated….
Posted by Namaste_Rich
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Was the CIA involved in killing Benazir Bhutto? The CIA has been involved in clandestine killings to support the criminal régime of Pervez Musharraf, close friend and confidant of President Bush. If history is any indicator, the CIA killed Benazir Bhutto to keep a populist leader from assuming the power.
Power to the people of Pakistan will only happen when the American stoolie, and Bush lackey, Pervez Musharraf, is forever neutralized.
Didn’t Bush want Bhutto to rule Pakistan with Musharaf in some kind of a power-sharing deal?
Sucks.
I don’t think these people have any intentions of sharing anything. It’s obvious when “W” still uses the word nuckuler to piss us off that they have an agenda that that is beyond common sense.
A populist leader?
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Benazir’s record for corruption surpassed all the previous governments as she amassed huge assets mostly in Dubai, the UK and other Western capitals plundering the assets of her country. Her government was involved in the massive human rights violations particularly in Karachi where the MQM militants had virtually brought the financial capital of Pakistan to a grinding halt. The reaction of the Benazir government was ruthless operations that killed thousands of innocent and unarmed civilians.
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The popular discourse is gravitating towards blaming “Islamic Extremists”. Of course they are. How old will that story get before it gets archived with the rest of history’s apocrypha? There’s a tremendous amount of money riding on plans to invade and keep on invading Pakistan. And it didn’t look like Benazir was going to get the reigns, did it?
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The U.S. military’s fuel vulnerabilities in Afghanistan were made clear last year during a conference sponsored by the Defense Energy Support Center, the agency that purchases and manages the delivery of fuel for the Defense Department. During a briefing on the fuel operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, Army Colonel Dan Jennings, who was overseeing fuel delivery for Afghanistan and southern Iraq, told a group of about 75 people that “Fuel support for Afghanistan operations is what keeps me up at night.”
Standing in front of a Power Point map of Afghanistan, Jennings said the agency was hauling hundreds of thousands of gallons of jet fuel per day to America’s main bases in Afghanistan. Some 700 tanker trucks were being used to deliver the fuel and some of the trucks were taking a month or more to make a round trip delivery from their starting points in Pakistan. According to Jennings, on some occasions, the U.S. military had as much as 4.7 million gallons of motor fuel in transit between Pakistan and Afghanistan. In addition to the sheer volume of fuel, Jennings and his team were dealing with pilferage, accidents, trucker strikes and cultural barriers. “We’ve had trucks show up as much as 90 days after they were initially loaded,” Jennings said.
Despite the problems, Jennings was RELENTLESSLY UPBEAT particularly about the opportunities in the fuel supply business in Pakistan and Afghanistan. “There will be a military requirement in this area for a long time to come,” he declared. “Things are changing in this region. This is the land of opportunity.”
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20 November 2007 – In the midst of public statements of support for “democracy” in Pakistan and the recent visit to Islamabad by the American envoy John Negroponte, Washington is quietly preparing for a stepped-up military intervention in the crisis-ridden country.
According to the New York Times Monday, plans have been drawn up by the US military’s Special Operations Command for deploying Special Forces troops in Pakistan’s frontier regions for the purpose of training indigenous militias to combat forces aligned with the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Citing unnamed military officials, the newspaper reports that the proposal would “expand the presence of military trainers in Pakistan, directly finance a separate tribal paramilitary force that until now has proved largely ineffective and pay militias that agreed to fight Al Qaeda and foreign extremists.”
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They’re going to do what they need to do to justify “going in” — by hook or by crook. Look for the money : that’s where the gameboard is.
U.S. Troops to Head to Pakistan
6min 12sec into the interview Bhutto states that Omar Sheik murdered Osama Bin Laden
Remember, Congress has given the Shock Doctrine Posse permission to bleed the US taxpayer for over a trillion dollars — but it has to be done with acts of war. There ain’t nobody there to collect the windfall if the United States “government” were to spend that kind of money on Health Care for Vets, for instance, or addressing the threats of Global Warming — or helping its victims to get back to square one.
Apparently she was shot by a rooftop sniper, in the neck. Maybe they used the same one that picked off the “security consultants” in Falluja — you know, the ones whose martyrdom justified the razing of Falluja to the ground which subsequently inflamed the Iraqi Resistance.. . and justified milking the US taxpayer for over a billion dollars a day ever since.
Did we hear of any superdooper snipers in action in Iraq before or after that incident? Have we heard of any superdooper snipers in Pakistan? Much less Waziristan?
I don’t think so.
BUT. Gotta have the “Suicide Bomber” though — otherwise it wouldn’t carry the signature of “Muslim Extremists”.
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A rally organized by the other major opposition party, which was to have been addressed by deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif, also came under attack Thursday. Snipers reportedly killed four supporters of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and injured five more.
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Junior shooters in training. Where oh where is that finger trying to point? Who do the Shock Doctrine People want to see win this election coming up in January? By a landslide?
Mushie Mushie?
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I don’t THINK so.
Do we think El Junior Shooteros couldn’t have taken out Nawaz if that had been part of the plan?
Hmmmm . . . .
Note note note : This all happened in Rawalpindi —headquarters of the Pakistani military and supposedly the safest place in Pakistan, if you really have to stick your head out of an armored car to wave at adoring crowds.
Are we looking at incredible competence or incompetence or both. Who’s who? What’s what?
How new are we to this game?
Amazing how NOT shy Frost is about just reading “his” questions to the camera. I wonder if he’s a technophobe. Admittedly those tele-prompters take some getting used to.
Poor George.
The story coming out of Pakistan stated that the powerful bomb blast that killed twenty Pakistani nationals was ignited some twenty meters from the vehicle that Bhutto was in when she was shot at close range.
Conspiracy is defined as the agreement of two or more individuals to commit a crime. That being said, when one sees the video that shows the gunman on the back of the vehicle firing on Bhutto, and only seconds afterwards – a bomb then explodes some twenty meters away is beginning to make this claim of conspiracy more likely.
We know that ISI most likely would have been privy to the information that disclosed Bhutto’s route. If the ISI has been infiltrated by AQ, we can only speculate until new information becomes known.
~ Posted by: plainfacto | December 28, 2007 03:03 AM”
Pakistani official: Al Qaeda claims responsibility for Bhutto’s death
Sometimes no Peace
All proxy states take note : the Shock Doctrine is looking for wars to wage on terror. Is your back yard on the to do list?
Assassination of a public figure appears to be on their multiple choice list of catalyzing events. This may be your golden opportunity to go down in history as a glorious martyr.
Can we all think of 2 Latin American states that are probably currently under consideration by Team Zbiggy? For potential remunerative conflagrations? If Pakistan doesn’t let them in and Iraq and Afghanistan succeed in pushing them out?
Peru’s too new to the mix to be of near term utility, but you can bet plans are afoot to give it some of the same “problems” the other two have been “fighting” for years.
The new Free Trade Agreement will certainly help.
They could also, obviously, drum up something domestically. Don’t think that’s not on the table.
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All options are on the table
How many police/military personnel were killed? If the number is high, then it’s possible that officials did not know this was going to happen. However, if the number is low, then it is an indicator that there may have been prior knowledge and secret warning for police/military personnel to stay away from the motorcade. Is there any information on the number of police/military personnel present at Bhutto’s motorcade? A report by ANTENNA-TV claims she was shot with a Kalashnikov. Anyone hear about that?
Bhutto died trying to duck from blast, not bullet or bomb: ministry
The plot thickens…
Bhutto sent Blitzer security e-mail
– Bhutto email blames Musharraf for assasinationIt was a story CNN’s Wolf Blitzer hoped he’d never have to report — an e-mail sent to him through an intermediary by Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto complaining about her security. Conditions of use: only if she were killed.
I’ve heard rumors that Pakistan was actually founded by the CIA, and that the moon on the Pakistani flag is a reference to the fact that the CIA is the force that makes the Moon orbit the Earth.