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.
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto smiles as she sits under writing which reads 'Pakistan,' during her last public rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007. Pakistani opposition leader Bhutto was killed Thursday in a suicide attack as she drove away from a campaign rally just minutes after addressing thousands of supporters, aides said. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)
Methinks State Dept. is rather busy today... hope we (and allies) have a plan.
Though the Russian official said this would trigger more terrorist attacks
That was the one and only mention I heard of what actually happened. The gunman fired several times and then detonated.
Not necessarily unless it was one of her own bodyguard, which is not unheard of in that region.
Methinks State Dept. is rather busy today... hope we (and allies) have a plan.
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There’s a couple valleys in the Middle East and the
Northwest Frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan that ought to be brought to a superhigh heat for a short duration and turned to seas of glazed mud and rock.
.. but that is likely not a “plan” you would ever see come out of our State Dept. ;-)
Does anyone have (or has anyone posted) Hillary’s rambling stump speec—er, statement where she got the number of BB’s children wrong? Thanks!
Wrong!
A-Q and the Taliban are simply the tools.
The winner is militant [mass murdering] fundamental islam.
That’s pretty much what I saw too, but I would guess nobody would bother to up armor a Toyota. I’m just sayin.
Still making my way through the thread.
Many have speculated “inside job,” that her security detail was infiltrated.
Also, one or two pointed to Sharif. It was also mentioned he is fleeing, or has fled, the country.
The terrorists always talk about terrorist attacks in Pakistan and elsewhere but as usual nothing specific. I think the "terror chatter" is an overrated expression created by the media/some intelligence folks because there is 24/7 chatter of terrorist attacks if someone looks at the terrorist websites and forums but no intelligence value is found in the chatter.
Here’s what he said
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2243852,00.html
‘This will trigger more terror’
27/12/2007 16:29 - (SA)
Rawalpindi - A party security adviser says Benazir Bhutto was shot in the neck and chest as she got into her vehicle, after which the gunman blew himself up.
The United States on Thursday condemned the attack and Russia also said that Bhutto’s death could trigger a wave of terror in Pakistan.
“An act of terror is a bad sign,” Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov, Russia’s most senior Asia diplomat, told Itar-Tass news agency. “We hereby offer our condolences. This will for certain trigger a wave of terrorism.”
Speaking from Islamabad, Pakistan’s other opposition leader Nawaz Sharif vowed to “fight Bhutto’s war from now on” and said he shared the grief of “the entire nation”.
France also condemned the assassination, describing it as an “odious act”.
No, not likely.
I continue thinking of my airborne friend, due to deploy to OEF next month, and his parents.
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070037032&ch=12/27/2007%2010:19:00%20PM
Two shooters opened up on her AFTER she got out of the SUV...they shot her and then a third attacker moved in and set off his suicide vest.....very complex attack.
AQ.
I can't believe she did not drive around in a fully armored vehicle after the October attack that killed 50 + of her personal security guards and another 60 + bystanders and another 400 + injured.
IMHO, the largest threat at present is for a globalist agenda to seize the moment of chaos, detonate a WMD somewhere in the vicinity, creating a WMD exchange of limited scope, then inviting an international intervention to enforce a formal global regionalization ‘for the good of mankind’. IOW, there are so many players in a multiplayer, zero-sum game, with n members switching sides between players, that chaos appears the norm to all players. One way to normalize and win a good chunk of the game is to find the common goal of all players or the dual of the goal and create a play that shifts everybody’s search for strategy to a common course of action.
Likewise, considering Bhutto’s history and globalist associations, IMHO, she was simply an arrogant pawn who meant to do good in her own eyes and eyes of other globalists, but may have become an easier piece to play than to participate.
Lots of bad guys and self-made good guys hide in the fray of chaos.
Yes, mother.
This is the RESULT of State Department planning.
If you are going to hope for something, hope for David Petraeus to be named Secretary of State after Bush fires Rice.
We already have an ongoing operation for the last several years for securing the nukes in a crisis. Shortly, we will be inserting more Special Ops for the purposes of training Pakistani security forces, i.e., counter-insurgency. Although the situation in Pakistan is not similar at all to the one in Iraq.
That's what I'm thinking. AQ & T sympathizers can be found in all their parties.
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