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Row breaks out over Benazir Bhutto's death (Government's explanation a "pack of lies" ON Drudge)
Telegraph. uk ^
| 18-28-07
| Isambard Wilkinson, Pakistan Correspondent, and Bonnie Malkin
Posted on 12/28/2007 3:08:58 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
The burial of Benzair Bhutto was today marred by heavy violence across Pakistan as a bitter row broke out over how she died.
As hundreds of thousands mourned the murdered opposition leader, the country's Interior Ministry claimed she had died from hitting her vehicle's sunroof when she tried to duck after a suicide attack.
However, one of Miss Bhutto's aide rejected the government's explanation of her death as a "pack of lies".
Brigadier Javed Cheema, a ministry spokesman, said Miss Bhutto had died from a head wound she sustained when she smashed against the sunroof's lever as she tried to shelter inside the car.
"The lever struck near her right ear and fractured her skull," Mr Cheema said.
But the explanation was ridiculed by Farooq Naik, Miss Bhutto's top lawyer and a senior official in her Pakistan People's Party.
"It is baseless. It is a pack of lies," he said.
"Two bullets hit her, one in the abdomen and one in the head. It was a serious security lapse........"
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bhutto; pakistan; wot
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I don't see how she could be hit in the abdomen when that was not exposed as she stood in the sunroof of the armoured car.
To: Anti-Bubba182
I don’t see how she could fracture her skull by ducking into the sunroof and hitting her head. She was either hit by shrapnel or one of her security guards clubbed her in the head.
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posted on
12/28/2007 3:12:25 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: Anti-Bubba182
Sounds like a magic bullet....
Check the grassy knoll.
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posted on
12/28/2007 3:12:49 PM PST
by
y6162
To: Anti-Bubba182; jeffers
Bingo....you picked it up also.
I think the Pakistanis are making it their mission just to piss me off...I have never seen a people who can't get a story straight.
Black is white...white is black......grrrrrrrrr.
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posted on
12/28/2007 3:13:18 PM PST
by
Dog
To: Dog
You mean, besides Democrats?
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posted on
12/28/2007 3:14:34 PM PST
by
Dr.Deth
To: Ditter
The thing is there is no angle for an abdomen shot. If Bhutto was ducking she would have to pass the handle and hitting her head on that is at least possible.
To: Ditter
Perhaps the kilos of Semtex going off moved something.
Not to be worried, madam Senator Clinton has called for an International investigation. The UN guy and the EU guy who got booted from Afghanistan will help Bill Clinton with it.
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posted on
12/28/2007 3:18:09 PM PST
by
colonialhk
(Harry and Nancy are our best moron allies)
To: Anti-Bubba182
I don't see how she could be hit in the abdomen when that was not exposed as she stood in the sunroof of the armoured car.If I could see your video or photographic evidence of the actual event, just prior to her dropping down inside the vehicle, I might be able to make a comment.
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posted on
12/28/2007 3:22:36 PM PST
by
dragnet2
To: Anti-Bubba182
And I talking about video or photographic evidence of the
*actual* event, just prior to her dropping down inside the vehicle, I might be able to make a comment.
I too have seen images of her sticking out of the sun roof, but that is not an image of the *actual* event where her upper abdomen area might have been exposed.
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posted on
12/28/2007 3:27:31 PM PST
by
dragnet2
To: y6162
According to your story, Hernandez passes you and starts walking up the ramp. Then you say you were struck on the right temple. The spit then proceeds to ricochet off the temple, striking Newman between the third and the forth rib. The spit then came off the rib, made a right turn, hitting Newman in the right wrist... causing him to drop his baseball cap. The spit then splashed off the wrist, pauses -- in mid-air, mind you -- makes a left turn and lands on Newman's left thigh. That is one magic loogie.I find the Paki explanation just as absurd as the Seinfeld scenario.
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posted on
12/28/2007 3:30:53 PM PST
by
steveo
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
To: y6162
She was killed by her security detail. (As was a certain president.)
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posted on
12/28/2007 3:35:10 PM PST
by
Publius
(A = A)
To: Publius
She was killed by her security detail. (As was a certain president.)So you know the truth about McKinley.
To: dragnet2
To: Publius
also another female PM from that part of the world....Indira Gandhi
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posted on
12/28/2007 3:54:34 PM PST
by
xp38
To: Anti-Bubba182
Sounds like the intended assassin didn’t get the job done, so she was driven away to a secure location where it was done properly.
Or maybe I just need a tin foil hat...
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posted on
12/28/2007 3:56:32 PM PST
by
airborne
(Proud to be a conservative! Proud to support Duncan Hunter for President!)
To: airborne
I read that was a bullet proof vehicle....and bomb resistant.
To: y6162
Well, Arlen was in town to meet her yesterday.
To: airborne
Sounds like the intended assassin didnt get the job done, so she was driven away to a secure location where it was done properly.No, you're confusing Bhutto with Princess Diana.
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posted on
12/28/2007 4:03:22 PM PST
by
Publius
(A = A)
To: Anti-Bubba182
Yeah, I've seen that photo. That is not an image of the actual event.
However, if you look closely at the photo you provided, under the white object on the roof, possibly the sunroof or some type a light bar, you can clearly see her clothing underneath it, and it would appear her upper abdomen area was exposed.
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posted on
12/28/2007 4:03:56 PM PST
by
dragnet2
To: Anti-Bubba182
No one in the car was even injured. Bhutto is dead because she was stupid and careless when it came to her own security. She routinely ignored or rejected recommendations from her security details, such as 5 days ago, when she refused a "Popemobile"-style bulletproof glass enclosure in a dangerous area where she had received death threats. It is amazing she wasn't shot at there.
Her death was inevitable. Perhaps she even wanted it. She seemed to have a martyr complex. All very sad for a very educated woman with a long history in the region.
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