Posted on 12/27/2007 5:12:06 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has been critically injured after a suspected suicide attack at a political rally in Pakistan.
It was believed to be a suicide attackShe is undergoing emergency surgery at a nearby hospital, Sky News sources say.
The explosion went off just after Ms Bhutto left the rally in Rawalpindi, minutes after her speech to thousands of people.
I can’t say this news comes as any type of surprise.
Why is that obvious to you?
What is a blone haired, blue eyed American girl doing in Pakistan with a war on its border and political unrest over Christmas? Bad choice. Hope the girl has gone straight to the U.S. embassy.
I wrote here about a year ago that there would be some event, somewhere in the world, that would have a huge effect on the 2008 election here at home..this could be it..
It won’t be that easy. you can bet we know where those weapons are and have HUMINT among other things in place there.
Obama may have been unwittingly prophetic when he opined the US should “invade Pakistan.”
How close did the assassin actually get, anyone know? Did he use a long gun, or a hand gun? And if he got close, did she know the guy?
Mods? Now that we know Bhutto is dead can we change the title of the thread?
How long before the moonbats blame President Bush? Ya know....putting the WOT on the front page again & everything....../sarc
US State Dept has already released statement condeming attacks
I just hope that nobody blames those radical Islamics or the CAIR guy will be crying all over the media. Radical Islam is really not violent, HONEST!
God rest her soul.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3099534.ece
Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani opposition leader and former Prime Minister, has been killed in a suicide bombing on her political rally today.
Ms Bhutto had been addressing crowds at the garrison city of Rawalpindi, ahead of Pakistan’s general election next month, when the bomber detonated his explosives, killing at least 15 people. She was taken to hospital, but could not be saved.
“At 6:16 p.m. she expired,” said Wasif Ali Khan, a member of Ms Bhutto’s party who was at Rawalpindi General Hospital.
“It may have been pellets packed into the suicide bomber’s vest that hit her,” Javed Cheema, an interior ministry spokesman said.
Her supporters at the hospital began chanting “Dog, Musharraf, dog,” referring to Pakistan’s President, Pervez Musharraf. Some of them smashed the glass door at the main entrance of the emergency unit, others burst into tears.
Islamic militants have vowed to kill Ms Bhutto, who returned to Pakistan in October. Today’s bombing is the second major attack on her since her return.
A suicide bomber killed nearly 150 people on October 18 as Ms Bhutto paraded through the southern city of Karachi after returning home from eight years in self-imposed exile.
The latest bombing was the second outbreak of political violence in Pakistan today. Earlier, gunmen opened fire on supporters of another former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, from an office of the party that supports President Musharraf, killing four Sharif supporters, police said.
Mr Sharif was several kilometres away from the shooting and was on his way to Rawalpindi after attending a rally.
Ms Bhutto, 54, served twice as Pakistan’s prime minister between 1988 and 1996. She was born on June 21, 1953, into a wealthy landowning family. Her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founded the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and was president and later prime minister of Pakistan from 1971-77.
After gaining degrees in politics at Harvard and Oxford universities, she returned to Pakistan in 1977, just before the military seized power from her father. She inherited the leadership of the PPP after her father’s execution in 1979 under military ruler General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq.
First voted in as prime minister in 1988, Bhutto was sacked by the then-president on corruption charges in 1990. She took power again in 1993 after her successor, Nawaz Sharif, was forced to resign after a row with the president.
Bhutto was no more successful in her second spell as prime minister, and Mr Sharif was back in power by 1996. In 1999, both Bhutto and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, were sentenced to five years in jail and fined $8.6 million on charges of taking bribes from a Swiss company hired to fight customs fraud. A higher court later overturned the conviction as biased.
Ms Bhutto, who had made her husband investment minister during her period in office from 1993 to 1996, was abroad at the time of her conviction and chose not to return to Pakistan.
Mr Sharif meanwhile was deposed by General Pervez Musharraf in a military coup, and went into exile from which he too only returned in the last few weeks.
In 2006 Ms Bhutto joined an Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy with her arch-rival Mr Sharif, but the two disagreed over strategy for dealing with President Musharraf. Ms Bhutto decided it was better to negotiate with him, while Mr Sharif refused to have any dealings with the general.
Thats just when boston.com reported it. The blast was reported here at 7:27 and her death at 8:24.
are you not reading the same title we are?
Given what I've heard of the ISI the hospital might have finished the job.
The USDOS is at least partly culpable here. Watch the mediots stir this pot for all they can get.
My guess is that Hillary will exploit this tragedy for her own ends and say something along the lines of “See how other countries kill women in power, and this is our opportunity to show how different we are. . .”
It’s the perfect opportunity for Hillary to use her gender and for the most grasping woman of all to grasp back the lead with misplaced sympathy.
This is Hugh!
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