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.
They are reporting that Sharif was also "shot at" in an apparent second assasination attempt. Sounds suspicious to me. They took no chances with Bhutto. If they wanted Sharif dead, he would be dead.
Correct. His idea of her security was to place her under house arrest.
If that is the case, why has AQ tried to assassinate him multiple times?
But suspicions immediately centered on Pakistani militants, on members of Al Qaeda or a combination of the two. The twin attacks came two months after the release of an audiotape purportedly from Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, that urged Pakistanis to overthrow President Musharraf. A senior Pakistani intelligence official said several men from Arab countries were believed to have entered Pakistan and to be operating in four teams carrying out attacks. The official said members of two Pakistani militant groups, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Muhammad, were believed to be in contact with the foreigners.
Thank you both.
Here’s where the DUmmies start claiming it was a Rovian plot.
What was our new policy?
That was a confluence of competing interests. This is an internal affair. I don't see this amounting to much. It didn't take Nostradamus to predict this woman would be killed.
Kinda reminds me of that old joke about how Mussolini died. Looks like a group effort to me.
In a situation like this, you don't get that close without help. A suicide bomber isn't exactly the most mobile of weapons; he has to know exactly when and where to be. Everybody in the security detail would know that. So I can't help but conclude that this was most likely a high-level job rather than a lone attacker, and there are a host of possible motives.
Global communists want chaos.
So does AQ.
ISI hates populists.
Musharraf doesn't want competition.
Neither does Sharif.
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It's a really sick part of the world, with nukes.
Her assassination has less to do with being a woman as it does with being part of a power struggle.
I am sick... all I can see is Arch Duke Ferdinand all over again. This could be the morning WWIII started — although a lot of people would say it started 30 years ago with the first terrorist attacks.
What will Hillary do with this news???
bump
Exactly. If Sharif was a target today he would be on a slab too. They may well have created a phony attack to divert suspicion from Sharif, who is just as likely to have killed Bhutto as Musharraf, or more so.
Mush had her under arrest and then under house arrest only a month ago or so. He could have killed her anytime he wanted to.
Besides, he has the entire Pak military/security apparatus at his disposal. He wants someone dead, he'll kill them. No need for suicide bombing.
If not Al Q then this was other fundamentalists. The place crawls with them.
From an earlier post by Mewzilla
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22977630-2703,00.html
Musharraf met with Karzai yestrday. I have to believe AQ was behind this. Pray for our troops, especially those ‘first responders’.
The U.S.A. could easily slip into an “accidental empire” stretching from Pakistan to Syria, with Magog looking on in jealousy.
You consider it a rant to state the facts?
Santa must have been very bad to you this year.....
Perhaps you haven’t heard the Muslim Cleric’s proclamation that “uncovered” women from the West are “fair game” for the horny little bastards...
This was the stated justification for the widespread rapes being committed my Muslims THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, even in countries hosting them as “refugees”...
Markets have seemed remarkably calm about this so far.
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