Key Benazir Bhutto assassination witness shot dead

Telegraph ^ | 23 July 2008 | Telegraph

[BGHater]

The bodyguard of Benazir Bhutto, who was to be a key witness in an investigation into her assassination, has been shot dead.

Khalid Shahenshah, who was the former Pakistan prime minister's security chief at the time of her assassination, was killed in a drive-by shooting as he left his house in the southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, police said.

Mr Shahenshah, 45, was riding in Mrs Bhutto's bullet-proof car when she was killed in a suicide attack in the northern city of Rawalpindi on December 27.

He was expected to be called to give evidence at a United Nations probe into her death.

"He was a key witness in the case and was also interviewed by the Scotland Yard experts who came to Pakistan to investigate her killing," said Waqar Mehdi, the junior information minister of Sindh province.

"There is a possibility that his killing could be linked to his status as a witness, although investigations are still underway."

A team of Scotland Yard detectives concluded in February that Mrs Bhutto was killed by a suicide bomb and not by gunfire, backing the previous Pakistani government's claim the attack was masterminded by Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan's top Taliban commander.

The body of personal security guard of slain former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto, Khalid Shahenshah is removed from a hospital in Karachi

[Elpasser]

These random drive by shootings...

Such a huge problem.

[rusureitflies?]

“There is a possibility that his killing could be linked to his status as a witness, although investigations are still underway.”
Do ya think?

[coconutt2000]

My conspiracy minded alternate personality tells me that this is a red herring. The planners of her assassination are covering their tracks by killing a witness that knew nothing of substance. Now we’ll all wonder what he knew and when he knew it, meanwhile the real backers behind the assassination are busy hiding their tracks.

I figure the guys who killed the bodyguard are hired hacks who’ll wind up in a ditch somewhere.

[alloysteel]

There was a part of the world once in the Roman Empire, called Byzantine. And there were also the provinces of northern Italy, and the courts of the French Bourbon kings, where a great deal of this intrigue and internecine struggle went on, out of sight and for obsure objectives.

We are seeing a semi-secular Islamic state rapidly falling into the full ideology of the Caliphate, and this is merely clearing out the deadwood, so the Sacred And Nearly Demented Noble Islamic Gentlemen Granted Exceptional Respect may assume their rightful position as the spiritual, legal, and military commanders of the subjects of their domain.

[cousair]

Well of course they have to get rid of any witnesses....why are we not surprised??

[Gman]

First reported case of Pakistanicide.

[the lone wolf]

Jack Ruby was unavailable for comment.

[The_Republican]

Oh man, now we have to watch another junk movie made by Oliver Stone.

[festus]

Thus illustrating why you cannot use courts to bring justice against jihadis.