It's how all governments handle "investigations" (read: COVER-UPS)!!!
"Bhutto says officials obstructing probe; Some 'protected' in suicide attack" by Griff Witte/Washington Post October 23, 2007
KARACHI - Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan charged yesterday that government officials are seeking to obstruct a thorough investigation into last week's devastating suicide attack on her convoy because "some people are being protected."
The allegation came after the government rejected her request that international experts be brought in to assist with the investigation.
Bhutto told reporters at her family compound in Karachi:
"If people have nothing to hide, they will be open to working with experts from all over the world. I would be simply appalled if the government of Pakistan declined [to bring in international experts]."
Bhutto narrowly survived an assassination attempt late Thursday that killed 140 others during a massive procession to mark her homecoming from eight years of exile. She has said she believes Islamic extremists were behind the attack. But she has also suggested they had help from current and former government officials, including members of the nation's influential army and intelligence services.
Bhutto: "There are very powerful figures behind the assassination attempt on me."
Deputy Information Minister Tariq Azim Khan dismissed the accusation and criticized Bhutto for suggesting that Pakistan is not up to the job of investigating:
"It's very sad to hear a former two-term prime minister for Pakistan doubt the integrity and the efficiency of the country's own institutions. Every time there's an incident, are we just going to invite people from all over the world to investigate?"
[Well, YEAH!]
Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said earlier:
"[I would] categorically reject [Bhutto's request for foreign investigators]. We are conducting the investigation in a very objective manner."
The exchange highlighted the deep mistrust that remains between Bhutto and members of the government. Although Bhutto has been negotiating a power-sharing arrangement with President Pervez Musharraf, many officials below Musharraf are vehemently against her return to her old job.
Musharraf has said investigating the attack against Bhutto would be a priority. But so far, no major breakthroughs have been announced. Police have said they have detained three people for questioning, although it is unclear whether they are considered suspects.
A Western diplomat in Karachi said it was "too soon to speculate" who exactly might have been responsible for the attack.
[Gee, we tagged bin-Laden within an hour!
Your ISI must suck, huh, Mushy?]
Bhutto said yesterday that the threat against her remains. She is weighing a trip to her ancestral home of Larkana this week, but security could be a significant impediment. She said she had received a call from a government official Sunday informing her of a plot to attack her in Larkana. Bhutto said she had known about that threat even before she flew back from exile in the United Arab Emirates last week.
The government has insisted that it is giving Bhutto all the security she needs but that she has been reckless in making public appearances that place her at risk."
[Yeah, it is ALL HER FAULT!!!
Sort of like a RAPE VICTIM, right?
She was ASKING for it, right?]
"Qaeda Link Suspected in Pakistan Blasts" by CARLOTTA GALL
[Cover story is already out, see?]
KARACHI, Pakistan, Oct. 22 — The explosions aimed at the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto last week resembled attacks by Al Qaeda and their allied Pakistani militants and were the work of two suicide bombers, the provincial governor said in an interview.
[Yeah, whatever!
Looks like Pakis dine on what Amurkns do.
You eat it out of a bowl, Pakis?]
Ishrat ul Ebad Khan, the governor of Sindh Province, said investigators have found the heads of two men that were not claimed by relatives and almost certainly belong to the bombers.
[Yeah, must be them then! Pfffffffftttttt!!!!]
The explosions, detonated close to Ms. Bhutto’s fortified truck as supporters flocked to welcome her home after eight years of self-imposed exile, were the deadliest of more than 50 suicide attacks in Pakistan in recent years.
The governor said the death toll had risen to 140, and included a couple with their 1-year-old child who had come on a motorbike to see Ms. Bhutto’s procession through town. More than 500 people were wounded, he said.
The Pakistani police have said that a grenade caused the first, smaller explosion on Thursday night, and that a lone suicide bomber caused the second, larger blast.
[But you said it was TWO suiciders? WTF?!!!!!!!!!!!!]
But Mr. Ebad said the police had found no traces of a grenade, and had now pieced together the head of a second man:
[How CON-VEN-IENT!!!!]
“Certainly these are extremists. They are the people who want to sabotage the political process. In their perspective, it would be a lethal combination for all moderate democratic forces to come together so they wanted to sabotage, disrupt and derail this process.”
[Yeah, the "extremists" would want to derail the process, which is EXACTLY WHAT Musharaff would like to do, too!
Ahem. CUI BONO, readers?]
Ms. Bhutto has also said militants were set on preventing a return to democracy. But an argument is brewing over how her arrival and procession through the city were handled.
Ms. Bhutto has blamed the government for turning off the streetlights, making it difficult for security guards to spot potential attackers, and has suggested that officials in the government did not act on information she had passed on of planned attacks.
[You mean, like NORAD STANDING DOWN on 9/11?!]
Mr. Ebad said that despite being aware of serious threats, Ms. Bhutto had not taken necessary precautions.
[Yeah, it was HER FAULT!!!
Like a RAPE VICTIM!]
The governments of Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates had warned her that suicide bombers were intending to attack her cavalcade.
[Gee, got ALL THESE WARNINGS, huh -- like on 9/11!]
Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, had asked her to delay her return until investigators could find those planning the attacks, but she had refused, Mr. Ebad said.
[Yeah, so it is HER FAULT!!!!]
Security officials meanwhile had tried to persuade her to take the standard precautions that they employ for all official and political visits — such as not revealing the route of her procession, the vehicle she was traveling in or the time of her arrival, and moving as fast as possible from one place to another — but Mr. Ebad said she had not accepted their suggestions.
Mr. Ebad: “They wanted a rally, they wanted to announce the time and the vehicle for political reasons. They had decided to take 18 hours to travel to the mausoleum. The Home Department constantly asked they reduce the time, but they did not accept this.”
He also denied that the street lights were turned off at the time of the blasts, saying that video showed they were on.
[They sure didn't look on, sir!]
Mr. Ebad, who has overseen investigations into seven suicide bombings in Karachi during his five years as governor, said Ms. Bhutto had made well-publicized statements before her return to Pakistan that would have caused extremists to make her a target.
[The guy has a lot of experience in cover-ups then, huh?
Her fault!]
In particular she had hailed the government’s military action against militants in the Red Mosque in Islamabad in July, and she had said she would allow American forces to conduct operations in Pakistan.
The governor: “It was quite serious if you look at the forces of the extremists and terrorists. It was quite threatening to them.”
[Of course, Musharaff welcomed her with open arms and kissed her!
That's why he was telling her to stay away!
I just DON'T BUY the BULLSHIT, anymore!]
The carnage of her return procession has already significantly curtailed Ms. Bhutto’s plans for rallying supporters.
[And CUI BONO, readers?!
The "Al-CIA-Duhs" weren't going to win the 'elections."
I smell a Mushy stink!]
Since the attacks she has only ventured outside her home in Karachi twice, on brief trips to visit the wounded in a hospital and to offer prayers. Neither visit was publicized and each was conducted rapidly with heavy security.
[Oh, you were able to protect her then, huh? Pfffffftttttttt!!!!!!]
The government meanwhile has moved to curb political rallies and processions before the two-month parliamentary election campaign that will begin Nov. 15.
[Need I even say it, readers?]
The interior minister, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, said the government had prepared a code of conduct, which it wanted political parties to adopt. The code would prohibit rallies and processions but would allow gatherings at specific places, he said.
[Need I even say it, readers?
Sort of like a declaration of martial law without declaring martial law, huh?]
Mr. Sherpao told reporters in Islamabad:
“Elections are just two months away and we would want peaceful and conducive elections. We do not want to postpone elections but we have made a draft of code of conduct.”
[And preferably, the rigged kind!]
The Pakistan Peoples Party led by Ms. Bhutto has already objected to the restrictions because staging huge rallies has always been the traditional way of campaigning for elections in Pakistan, especially among the illiterate and rural communities.
[Called restricting the vote, folks!]
The bombers have not been identified, but an investigator who was briefing the governor on Monday evening said the men were “100 percent” Pakistani. The investigator asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to comment.
[WTF?!!
Ya published their body parts in the papers, though, and you know which families didn't claim people?
How? They your ISI agents? Is that why?
WTF is with the LIES, MSM?!]
The attack was similar in style to previous suicide bombings in Karachi and elsewhere, he said. The bombers used C4 plastic explosive, the same type used in the bombing of a United States consulate vehicle in Karachi in March 2006, he said."
The police estimated that the first bomber was carrying 17 to 22 pounds of explosives and the second 33 pounds, the investigator said."
[They even know all about the EXPLOSIVES, huh?
Whadda fucking INSIDE JOB STINK!!!!!!]
