Posted on 12/30/2007 10:12:16 AM PST by neverdem
They have killed a woman. A beautiful woman. A visible, indeed a conspicuously, spectacularly visible woman.
A woman who made a point not only of holding rallies in one of the world's most dangerous countries, but did so with her face uncovered, unveiled--the exact opposite of the shameful, hidden women, the condemned creatures of Satan, who are the only women tolerated by these apostles of a world without women.
They killed a Jew, Daniel Pearl. They killed Ahmed Shah Massoud, the great guerilla leader against the Taliban, a moderate Muslim, a cultivated man and free spirit. They tried for years to kill a man, Salman Rushdie, who dared say that to be a man is also sometimes to choose your own destiny.
And now they have killed Benazir Bhutto--killed her because she was a woman, because she had a woman's face, unadorned yet filled with an unswerving strength, because she was living out her destiny and refusing the curse that, according to the new fascists (the jihadists) floats over the human face of women. They killed this woman incarnation of hope, of spirit, of the will to democracy, not only in Pakistan, but in all the lands of Islam.
Pervez Musharraf has been a false adversary of al Qaeda. But if Benazir had won the election, if she had lived, she would certainly not have ceased to say, by dint of her mere presence, her being, her speaking out, that she was their resolute and absolute adversary, a hard-liner. For these men she was more than a political threat; she was an ontological threat. She would have been merciless. They knew it, and they killed her.
I remember her on an afternoon in December 2002, in London, while I was investigating the death of Daniel Pearl, and therefore the powder...
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As long as were naming decent democratic world leaders who ‘Rats couldn’t care a rats ass about, lets include Rafik Hariri of Lebanon, struck down by the usual islamofascist crowd.
The Islamofascists killed one of their own and all they can do is follow the party line and condemn US allies.
Pathetic!
I will never vote for anyone in that corrupt commie infested party as long as I live!
Smug..ignorant controlling b@stards.
Bhutto was a crook who took millions in bribes.
New York Times
January 9, 1998
Bhutto Clan Leaves Trail of Corruption in Pakistan
By JOHN F. BURNS
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A decade after she led this impoverished nation from military rule to democracy, Benazir Bhutto is at the heart of a widening corruption inquiry that Pakistani investigators say has traced more than $100 million to foreign bank accounts and properties controlled by Bhutto’s family.
Starting from a cache of Bhutto family documents bought for $1 million from a shadowy intermediary, the investigators have detailed a pattern of secret payments by foreign companies that sought business favors during Bhutto’s two terms as Pakistan’s prime minister.
The documents leave uncertain the degree of involvement by Bhutto, a Harvard graduate whose rise to power in 1988 made her the first woman to lead a Muslim country. But they trace the pervasive role of her husband, Asif Zardari, who turned his marriage to Bhutto into a source of virtually unchallengeable power.
In 1995, a leading French military contractor, Dassault Aviation, agreed to pay Zardari and a Pakistani partner a $200 million commission for a $4 billion jet fighter deal that fell apart only when Bhutto’s government was dismissed. In another deal, a leading Swiss company hired to curb customs fraud in Pakistan paid millions of dollars between 1994 and 1996 to offshore companies controlled by Zardari and Bhutto’s widowed mother, Nusrat Bhutto.
In the largest single payment investigators have discovered, a gold bullion dealer in the Middle East was shown to have deposited at least $10 million into one of Zardari’s accounts after the Bhutto government gave him a monopoly on gold imports that sustained Pakistan’s jewelry industry. The money was deposited into a Citibank account in the United Arab Emirates sheikdom of Dubai, one of several Citibank accounts used by Zardari.
Together, the documents provided an extraordinarily detailed look at high-level corruption in Pakistan, a nation so poor that perhaps 70 percent of its 130 million people are illiterate, and millions have no proper shelter, no schools, no hospitals, not even safe drinking water. During Bhutto’s five years in power, the country became so enfeebled that she spent much of her time negotiating loans to stave off default on more than $62 billion in public debt.
A worldwide search for properties secretly bought by the Bhutto family is still in its early stages. But the inquiry has so far found that Zardari went on a shopping spree in the mid-1990s, purchasing among other things a $4 million, 355-acre estate south of London. Over eight months in 1994 and 1995, he used a Swiss bank account and an American Express card to buy jewelry worth $660,000 — including $246,000 at Cartier Inc. and Bulgari Corp. in Beverly Hills, Calif., in barely a month.
In separate interviews in Karachi, Bhutto, 44, and Zardari, 42, declined to address specific questions about the Pakistani inquiry, which they dismissed as a political vendetta by Bhutto’s successor as prime minister, Nawaz Sharif. In Karachi Central Prison, where he has been held for 14 months on charges of murdering Bhutto’s brother, Zardari described the corruption allegations as part of a “meaningless game.” But he offered no challenge to the authenticity of the documents tracing some of his most lucrative deals.
A) This is a spectacular example of an IslamoFascist misogeny “honor killing” of an uppitty woman.
B) This is a spectacular example of abject dhimmi cowardice by the pitiful excuses for leaders in the West, in the face of aforementioned IslamoFascism.
Could it be that the Bhutto family are crooks and most of the world doesn’t like their stench?
Where there is bribery you can generally find the French. Its how they work.
Anyone know the real reason France stayed out of Iraq? It was because Chirac was paid millions to stay out.
John
The Author’s most famous work till date-
http://www.amazon.com/Killed-Daniel-Pearl-Bernard-Henri/dp/0971865949
& a must-read for anyone trying to understand what Pakistan is all about.
I’m not very well informed on this whole Pakistan situation. Was Bhutto brought back into the country at the behest of the Bush administration?
They’re ascared.
Are you really trying to excuse the American Communist party(Dems) or are you just not paying attention to how rich they are all getting?
What do the american socialist dems have to do with a crooked policitan in Pakistan?
John
Muslim civilization (so called) is a shining example of what society becomes without the powerful influence of women!
Imagine there is no country and no religion too. It's easy if you try.
Sad but true.
Hence...my permanent tagline.
Yeah...that's the reason.
I’ve posted on FR that my oldest and dearest friend is a radical, left wing, lesbian. She and I are POLAR opposites on just about everything.
This past week she was home visiting her parents for Christmas (she hasn’t come out to them BTW). During one of our conversations she told me that the MSM is TOO conservative. That they aren’t liberal at all. That Hitlery would make a GREAT president. When I told her that Demonrats and Libs are nothing but Marxists she totally denied it.
Also, when I reminded her that I was once a Lib and a hard core feminist (we were estranged during those years) she couldn’t handle that someone with those beliefs could become a hard right conservative and anti feminist.
The Bhuttos were crooks. But in that part of the world, its no surprise.
She was a threat to the Taliban and radicals.
She was not really our friend though, she was a socialist and a Muslim.
The most disappointing part of all this the action of the current incompetent in the White House and his puppet, Rice, in foolishly engineering the return of this individual at this particular time. It guarenteed the Taliban and Al Quaida a publicity triumph. And they took it.
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