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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2007/12/pakistan_implicates.php

“Pakistan implicates Baitullah Mehsud in Bhutto assassination”
By BILL ROGGIODecember 28, 2007 3:54 PM

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The Pakistani government has directly implicated the commander of newly created Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, or Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema claimed the government intercepted a phone conversation between none other than Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, and Maulvi Sahib, one of Mehsud’s underlings.

The Telegraph has the transcript of the alleged recording. Baitullah congratulates Sahib, who explains the attack was carried out by three of their own operatives.

Maulvi Sahib: Congratulations, I just got back during the night.
Baitullah Mehsud: Congratulations to you, were they our men?

Maulvi Sahib: Yes they were ours.

Baitullah Mehsud: Who were they?

Maulvi Sahib: There was Saeed, there was Bilal from Badar and Ikramullah.

Baitullah Mehsud: The three of them did it?

Maulvi Sahib: Ikramullah and Bilal did it.

Baitullah Mehsud: Then congratulations.

Yesterday, Mustafa Abu al Yazid, al Qaeda’s commander in Afghanistan, boasted to a Pakistani journalist that al Qaeda was behind the attack. “We terminated the most precious American asset which vowed to defeat [the] mujahadeen,” Yazid said in a phone call to Syed Saleem Shahzad.

The Pakistan government’s claim that Baitullah Mehsud is behind the attack and al Qaeda’s claim of credit for the strike are not mutually exclusive. The Bhutto assassination also was very likely carried out with support from inside the police, military, and intelligence agencies.”


1,158 posted on 12/28/2007 2:01:45 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

I have no doubts Al qauda was behind the attack.

My concern is how deep within the Pakistani Government
they are.


1,159 posted on 12/28/2007 2:19:38 PM PST by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)
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To: Cindy; All

I get tired of people wondering why this should even matter.

It goes beyond the point of how she died. Which is speculative at best.

We have a 3rd world country, as my husband dryman would say, on the verge of civil war, sitting on 100 nukes.

That is why it matters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


1,160 posted on 12/28/2007 2:23:25 PM PST by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019357.php
(DAILY TIMES.com.pk)

December 28, 2007

“’In Shariah, democracy is un-Islamic. Our movement is completely against what you call democracy’”


1,166 posted on 12/28/2007 2:50:41 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Thanks for all the links regarding the Bhutto assassination. I do appreciate your efforts Cindy.


1,211 posted on 12/29/2007 12:22:38 PM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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