Posted on 12/30/2007 1:09:26 AM PST by HAL9000
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"Long live Bhutto," Benazir Bhutto shouted, waving to the crowd surging around her car. They were her last words before three gunshots rang out and she slumped back on to her seat."She did not say anything more," said Safdar Abbassi, her chief political adviser, who was sitting behind her.
In the first eyewitness account from inside the car, Dr Abbassi told The Sunday Telegraph: "All of a sudden there was the sound of firing. I heard the sound of a bullet."I saw her: she looked as though she ducked in when she heard the firing. We did not realise that she had been hit by a bullet."
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Thank you Hal.
Adding a link here for historical archival-updates thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1944663/posts
Photo taken with a 1911 Brownie Hawkeye?
The “shooters” arm looks a bit long and the sleeve changes color.
Well, the Pakistani government is either incompentent or they lied. They said Bhutto wasn’t shot that she hit her head, presumably from the force of the blast. Now we have an in the car eyewitness, who said Bhutto was inside the car when the blast went off.
For the record, 7-11 no longer sells Citgo gasoline.
The official Pakistani government line is that Miss Bhutto caught her head on the sunroof's catch as she ducked inside, fracturing her skull. "Absolute facts - nothing but facts," it said of its account. But Dr Abbassi leaves little room for doubt. There was too much blood, he said, and a gaping wound in her neck. She had been shot.As much as I believe we must support Musharraf, I have to shake my head in awe at how stupid dictators can be. Why lie about the cause of death? And what a stupid-sounding lie! And even if it were true -- by some billion-to-one fluke, that she killed herself by bumping her head on her sunroof -- since her ducking down was caused by the attack, why try to make it sound like an accident?
Do dictators all go to some kind of school where they're taught that they can make stuff like this up and get away with it?
It boggles my mind.
The guy looked to me like his arm was six feet long. Plastic Man?
The article linked mentions ball bearings hitting the van when the explosion occurred after she fell in. If she fell in after the bomb exploded, particles would have struck her too; there would be evidence on her clothes. If she fell in before, she cannot have exerted the force required to tear a hole in her head with the sunroof lever. (And laterally, too! Not even a direct blow.)
Not to mention the video of a gunman and how unlikely it must be to fire off several shots within spitting distance of target, and miss every time.
Does the term “controlled environment” have any meaning in the Middle East?
Now, there's a vignette that will (legitimately) find its way into many sermons.
I assume the suicide bomber was there to take out the assassin so that he would not talk, which probably means that it was an inside job.
Okay, color me confused. How many perps were there? More than one then? Last I knew the bomber and the shooter were thought to be the same guy. Does that no longer seem to be the case? And have the Pakistanis accepted any help, or are they still stiffing any offers of assistance from the US and/or UK?
There were probably a half dozen suicude bombers along the way. If this one didn’t take her out, the next one would. Besides the fact that these people carry guns like they’re breath mints.
The Rubber guy from Fantastic 4, so doubt. I didn't see Jessica Alba in the picture though, she must've been wearing a burka, or in one of her temporarily invisible states.
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