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Benazir Bhutto Critically Injured At Rally [Update: Bhutto has died]
Sky News ^ | Dec.27,2007

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqueda; asassination; assassinationplot; bhutto; dajjal; dhimocracy; gwot; islam; islamicjihad; jihad; martyrdom; pakistan; powerhungry; reckless; rop; taliban; trop; wot
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To: bray

“The Useless Nations were probably co-conspirators w/the terrorist organization.”

Nah. That’d require too much organization and competence

But, now that I think of it, the only thing that could REALLY get the UN riled up is Paki oil or manufacturing kickbacks drying up. I actually buy many glass and steel goods from Pakistan...


961 posted on 12/27/2007 12:39:00 PM PST by pianomikey (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. -Reagan)
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To: batter; jeffers
'AQ did it, somebody else did it. Key point in there, if AQ did it, “it”, whatever “it” happens to be that day, is ALWAYS part of a larger plan.'

Good analysis bump! We'll see if this does turn out to be a clearing the decks assessment as others here have alluded to, especially with nukes potentially in play.

Steyn (Benazir Bhutto) has also smacked the State Dept geniuses' "shotgun marriage" policy.

Whatever the case, hopefully our intel and counter-terror folks are on high alert at this point...

Nice. Thanks for the link, batter.

962 posted on 12/27/2007 12:40:28 PM PST by peterpaul12345
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To: OBXWanderer

This is the ultimate in Clintonian response, and Team Clinton ‘research.’ In their collective rush to get Hillary to the cameras, a 1995 photo op was remembered...no need to research (what they can’t even use Wiki?) how many kids BB had. No need to fact check....just let the feelings flow....


963 posted on 12/27/2007 12:42:26 PM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. Jane Austen.)
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To: bray
I don't think that the policy of "personal destruction" qualifies as murder, mayhem or "assasination."
Yet.
964 posted on 12/27/2007 12:42:46 PM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: yield 2 the right

http://www.taylorgunsmithing.com/images/SteyrS9.jpg";

Sexy, neh? Wrap a petite, 5-9 brown eyed brunette around it and you’ve got a real firecracker <3


965 posted on 12/27/2007 12:43:15 PM PST by pianomikey (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. -Reagan)
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To: All

Photos...

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Pakistan-Benazir-Bhutto-killed/ss/events/wl/081401pakistan;_ylt=Ar7psfyFk85JQTcagcfhpjWs0NUE#/071227/ids_photos_wl/r3877115909.jpg


966 posted on 12/27/2007 12:43:37 PM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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To: batter

Thanks for the link to the Mark Steyn piece; good analysis. I remember him saying earlier that she had been his next-door neighbor.


967 posted on 12/27/2007 12:43:57 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (CNN: Full of plants from the DNC Plant-ation.)
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To: COUNTrecount

PER FNC: All schools and banks in Pakistan will remain closed for 3 days to quell unrest....


968 posted on 12/27/2007 12:44:26 PM PST by yield 2 the right
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To: bray
" but a few thousand American troops in Baby Blue Berets."

I just got quizy at the thought of it.

969 posted on 12/27/2007 12:45:52 PM PST by peterpaul12345
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To: r9etb
Lest you conveniently forget, I am the one who supplied the "whom," and you are the one who complained about it.

Sorry; I don't quite grasp arabic syntax...

970 posted on 12/27/2007 12:45:57 PM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: r9etb
It is a necessity
No, it's not.

Is too!

971 posted on 12/27/2007 12:46:55 PM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: r9etb

Take it easy there with the complex, realistic thinking.... er, uh, “nuance.”
*Wink*


972 posted on 12/27/2007 12:47:00 PM PST by La Enchiladita (For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given...)
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To: yield 2 the right

from another board:

Cell phone connections and online newspapers are reportedly being shut-down in Pakistan. Cell phones, for those unaquainted with the area, is the best and most-easily available mode of communication for middle-class people. Online newspapers aren’t subjected to same degree of government censorship as print media. With those two down, the military government is in better than black-out, it can dictate the content that is still open.

Pakistani intelligence agencies, ISI, as well as Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) and Pakistani Intelligence Bureau (PIB), are clearly upto something... time will tell what it is.


973 posted on 12/27/2007 12:47:07 PM PST by jhpigott
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To: Publius6961

The guy on Hannity’s radio show now (don’t know who) saying that there’s no way AQ was responsible for this and that it was most likely Pakistan’s intelligence service.


974 posted on 12/27/2007 12:47:21 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (CNN: Full of plants from the DNC Plant-ation.)
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To: Publius6961

“one can only conclude that she had a conscious death-wish.”

One can also conclude that Ms. Bhutto lived to satisfy a higher standard than her mere physical existence in this world. She had some ideals and principles which guided her actions. She was not going to be intimidated into a life of fear. She evidently had an understanding with her God and looked beyond this life for happiness and success. May her soul rest in peace and the love of God.


975 posted on 12/27/2007 12:48:54 PM PST by conservative blonde (Let's call the Jr. Senator from Illinois by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: jhpigott

Cell phones are how terrorists operate too.....


976 posted on 12/27/2007 12:51:11 PM PST by La Enchiladita (For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given...)
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To: La Enchiladita
Take it easy there with the complex, realistic thinking.... er, uh, “nuance.”
*Wink*

Right on bro!
Glorifying nuances beats the hell out of facing facts.

Just saying...

977 posted on 12/27/2007 12:51:17 PM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Publius6961
No, you and your Al Qaeda-is-a-scapegoat "thinking" is underwhelming.

When you're right you're right. Al-Qaeda is getting all the financial and "moral" support it needs to exist (and to continue operating) from the planet Vulcan.

Weak strawman fallacy.

I never said that Al Qaeda's money sources aren't a problem, too.

Instead it was you who made "planet Vulcan" type arguments

You dismissed Al Qaeda as a Red Herring and you compared Al Qaeda to such scapegoat objects as a gun and an SUV.

978 posted on 12/27/2007 12:52:32 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: tlj18

Well, reports of riots are going around, yeesh. Almost 2AM there...when’s local sunrise?


979 posted on 12/27/2007 12:53:05 PM PST by Braak (The US Military, the real arms inspectors!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

That was Mansoor Ijaz.


980 posted on 12/27/2007 12:54:59 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Dark Knight is coming !)
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