Because it's MSM coverage, readers, not blogs.
And I notice the articles of information flowing forth from the Zionist-controlled War Dailies just as the Week-Ender Shit-Eater is off the delivery schedule.
Hmmmmmmmm!
Of course, it is still garbage propaganda.
"New Questions Arise in Killing of Ex-Premier" by JANE PERLEZ
LAHORE, Pakistan — New details of Benazir Bhutto’s final moments, including indications that her doctors felt pressured to conform to government accounts of her death, fueled the arguments over her assassination on Sunday and added to the pressure on Pakistan’s leaders to accept an international inquiry.
Athar Minallah, a board member of the hospital where Ms. Bhutto was treated, released her medical report along with an open letter showing that her doctors wanted to distance themselves from the government theory that Ms. Bhutto had died by hitting her head on a lever of her car’s sunroof during the attack.
In his letter, Mr. Minallah, who is also a prominent lawyer, said the doctors believed that an autopsy was needed to provide the answers to how she actually died. Their request for one last Thursday was denied by the local police chief.
Pakistani and Western security experts said the government’s insistence that Ms. Bhutto, a former prime minister, was not killed by a bullet was intended to deflect attention from the lack of government security around her. On Sunday, Pakistani newspapers covered their front pages with photographs showing a man apparently pointing a gun at her from just yards away.
Her vehicle came under attack by a gunman and suicide bomber as she left a political rally in Rawalpindi, where the Pakistani Army keeps its headquarters, and where the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency has a strong presence.
The government’s explanation, that Ms. Bhutto died after hitting her head as she ducked from the gunfire or was tossed by the force of the suicide blast, has been greeted with disbelief by her supporters, ordinary Pakistanis and medical experts. While some of the mystery could be cleared up by exhuming the body, it is not clear whether Ms. Bhutto’s family would give permission, such is their distrust of the government.
Mr. Minallah distributed the medical report with his open letter to the Pakistani news media and The New York Times. He said the doctor who wrote the report, Mohammad Mussadiq Khan, the principal professor of surgery at the Rawalpindi General Hospital, told him on the night of Ms. Bhutto’s death that she had died of a bullet wound.
Dr. Khan declined through Mr. Minallah to speak with a reporter on the grounds that he was an employee of a government hospital and was fearful of government reprisals if he did not support its version of events.
The medical report, prepared with six other doctors, does not specifically mention a bullet because the actual cause of the head wound was to be left to an autopsy, Mr. Minallah said. The doctors had stressed to him that “without an autopsy it is not at all possible to determine as to what had caused the injury,” he wrote.
But the chief of police in Rawalpindi, Saud Aziz, “did not agree” to the autopsy request by the doctors, Mr. Minallah said in his letter.
A former senior Pakistani police official, Wajahat Latif, who headed the Federal Investigative Agency in the early 1990s, said that in “any case of a suspected murder an autopsy is mandatory.” To waive an autopsy, Mr. Latif said, relatives were required to apply for permission.
At a news conference Sunday, Ms. Bhutto’s husband, Asif Ali Zardari, said he had declined a request for a post-mortem examination:
“It was an insult to my wife, an insult to the sister of the nation, an insult to the mother of the nation. I know their forensic reports are useless. I refuse to give them her last remains.”
The question of an autopsy has become central to the circumstances of Ms. Bhutto’s death because of conflicting versions put forward by the Pakistani government.
Don't you wish the Times had been more like this surrounding what happened on 9/11, readers?
The new images of the men who appear to have been Ms. Bhutto’s assassins showed one dressed in a sleeveless black waistcoat and rimless sunglasses, and holding aloft what appeared to be a gun. He had a short haircut and wore the kind of attire reminiscent of plainclothes intelligence officials, though Al Qaeda and other militants have also been known to dress attackers in Western-style clothing in order to disguise them.
The Pakistani versionof the Zapruder film, huh?
Yeah, "Al-CIA-Duh" likes to dress up!
Pfffffttttt!
That man is seen standing in front of another whose head is covered in a shawl in the style of Pashtun men from the Pakistan’s tribal areas, where Al Qaeda has regrouped in the past year. He is described in the newspaper Dawn as the suicide bomber.
Or not, ha-ha! So "Al-CIA-Duh" and the ISI pulled this off TOGETHER, huh?
Mr. Minallah, the hospital board member, said Ms. Bhutto’s doctors raised the likelihood of a bullet killing her in their report, when they wrote:
“Two to three tiny radio-densities underneath fracture segment are observed on both projections. [We tried for 41 minutes to revive her]. The patient was pulseless and was not breathing] when she arrived at the hospital]. A wound was present on the right temporoparietal region, through which blood was trickling down and whitish material which looked like brain matter was visible in the wound."
Oh, God!
Ms. Bhutto’s colleagues who were in the vehicle with her said the interior was covered in blood, and the doctors wrote that “her clothes were soaked with blood.”
Bruce Riedel, an expert on Pakistan at the Brookings Institution in Washington, and a former member of the National Security Council in the Clinton administration:
"[An account of her death that did not involve a gunshot wound was the optimal explanation for the government]. If there is a gunshot wound, the security was abysmal. [The government did not want to be exposed on its careless approach to security]."
So the guy is basically admitting an INSIDE JOB COVER-UP here!
I only got one thing to say: NINE-ELEVEN!!
On Sunday, Ms. Bhutto’s husband, Mr. Zardari, said he received a call from the Punjab home secretary on Thursday evening with a request for his permission for a post-mortem examination. He said he refused because he did not trust the government investigation to prove the cause of her death.
In ordinary circumstances, an autopsy runs counter to Islamic belief that a body should not be tampered with and should be buried as quickly as possible. But several Pakistanis said that in certain classes of Muslim society, particularly the better educated and more urban people, autopsies were not ruled out on religious grounds."
American and British officials, as well as an increasing number of Pakistanis, said that an investigation under the United Nations or some other international effort would restore confidence in the Pakistani government.
On Sunday a conference of Ms. Bhutto’s party, the Pakistan Peoples Party, called for an inquiry led by the United Nations.
Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the United States Congress, said Saturday that the Bush administration should condition its future aid to Pakistan on its willingness to undertake an independent international inquiry.
Would the U.S. stand for an international inquiry over 9/11?
Did we?
Then SHADDUP!!!!!!!!
David Miliband, the British foreign secretary, said Britain was ready to offer whatever help was needed.
Brig. Javed Iqbal Cheema, the Interior Ministry spokesman, made clear Sunday, however, that an international inquiry was not in the cards:
“At this point in time we are quite confident with the kind of progress that is going on with our inquiries. [Foreign experts do not have the expertise to deal with the peculiarities of tribal areas that are the base of the nation’s terrorist activities]. This is not just an ordinary criminal case where you only need forensic expert. We understand the dynamics better.”
Well, you guys are certainly doing a tremendous job so far!
NOT!!
"U.S. Experts Criticize Bhutto Post-Mortem" by LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Proper examination of the autopsy material, the clothing Ms. Bhutto wore when she was killed and the debris in the area surrounding the explosion could also help determine which extremist group made a bomb or fired a bullet, if either caused her death.
Ms. Bhutto’s case recalls that of President John F. Kennedy, who was slain in 1963. Controversy still swirls around the assassination, in part because of a flawed autopsy.
Would that the NYT would take an investigative look at so many horrors of AmeriKan history!
Instead, they bring in the Kennedy cover-up M.E.!
Pfffffttttt!
Dr. Michael M. Baden, who is a top forensic official for the New York State Police as well as a former New York City chief medical examiner and chairman of the forensic pathology panel of the House of Representatives select committees on the assassinations of Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr:
“With Kennedy, the treating doctors were wrong about the entrance and exit wounds” [of the bullet-damaged skull]."
This is an INSULT!!!!!!!!
Yeah, right, the treating doctors were wrong.
BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!!!!
Dr. Baden said he suspected that Ms. Bhutto died from a bullet that left two or three tiny fragments seen on X-rays before it exited the skull through a wound that the Pakistani doctors did not notice in part because they apparently did not shave the bloodied thick scalp hair.
Dr. Werner U. Spitz, former chief medical examiner in Detroit, said he could not understand why the government did not try to quench “the thirst of the Pakistani people to know the facts, because they are all angry, and if you confronted them with the facts, maybe the anger” would disappear.
Dr. Spitz said he suspected that Ms. Bhutto died after being hit by a bullet fired from a high-powered rifle."
So a SNIPER, not a GUY in the CROWD got her?!?!
Well, THAT REALLY STINKS!!!!!
Of course, the NYT and the rest then turn to bullshit politics!
Yeah, never mind asking those tough questions and doing some investigating on these assassinations.
Just run with the LIE of CONVENTIONAL MYTHS you helped promote and build, MSM!
Pffffffffttttt!
"Opposition Parties Vow to Proceed With Jan. 8 Election" by SOMINI SENGUPTA
NAUDERO, Pakistan — Asif Ali Zardari, Ms. Bhutto's husband, said he would manage the chairmanship of the Pakistan Peoples Party. Mr. Zardari said that his wife had expressed the wish in her will that he be left in charge of the party.
Mr. Zardari, in an interview:
“It’s not an easy chair to sit on. A, she leaves me. B, she ties me in this. To say the least, it’s overbearing.”
WTF?! Like the whole thing is her fault?
At the news conference, the elder Mr. Zardari said he would not run in the election and therefore would not be the party’s prime ministerial candidate.
So WHO is this guy?
"Bhutto's husband, new party leader, is former convict with shady reputation" by Sadaqat Jan, Associated Press | December 31, 2007
Uh-oh!
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Benazir Bhutto's husband, who took effective control of his slain wife's party yesterday, is a former Cabinet minister who spent eight years in prison on corruption accusations and is known as "Mr. 10 Percent" for allegedly taking kickbacks.
Oh, greeeeeeeeaaaaattt!
In her will, read yesterday, Bhutto named Asif Ali Zardari her successor as head of the Pakistan Peoples Party in case of her death. But Zardari, who is viewed with suspicion by many Pakistanis. Zardari is a prominent figure in Pakistani politics, earning a checkered reputation because of allegations that he made big money during Bhutto's government.
Oh, no!
Asif Ali Zardari, 54, who comes from a feudal family, shot to fame after his arranged marriage to Bhutto, who become prime minister for the first time in 1988, fewer than three months after giving birth to her son. Bhutto's husband is generally blamed for many of her political misfortunes, with her twice being forced out of the prime minister's office over allegations of corruption and misrule.
The elder Zardari was jailed for the first time in 1990 on charges ranging from murder to bank fraud when Bhutto's first government was dismissed. He was released in 1993 and acquitted of the charges, including the accusation that he tried to extort several million dollars from a British businessman by attaching a bomb to his leg. Asif Ali Zardari and his supporters said the charges were politically motivated.
The elder Zardari became investment minister in Bhutto's second government. He was nicknamed "Mr. 10 Percent" for allegedly skimming off commissions on government contracts. He was also accused of spending state money on ponies and the apples to feed them at the prime minister's residence while the poor lacked food.
And yet, Bhutto was going to be the savior of the poor?
Sigh!!!!
He was jailed a second time in 1996 over corruption allegations and alleged involvement in an attack on Bhutto's brother, Murtaza, who died in a shootout near his home in Karachi.
After years in prison, facing marathon trials in different courts in the country, the elder Zardari was freed in December 2004 and left Pakistan to live with his family in the United Arab Emirates.
Asif Ali Zardari has several ailments, including a heart problem."
How come every single leader the West backs is as corrupt as shit?
"US Seeks Free, Fair Pakistan Elections" by Larry Margasak Associated Press | December 30, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration and presidential hopefuls from both parties said Sunday that it's crucial for Pakistan to hold free and fair elections either as scheduled or fairly soon. Pakistan's Election Commission is to announce Monday if the vote will be postponed.
"Bhutto's party picks son, spouse to lead; Bloc voices intent to compete in vote" by Griff Witte, Washington Post | December 31, 2007
"That election, scheduled for Jan. 8, appears likely to be postponed. Tariq Azim Khan, spokesman for the party of President Pervez Musharraf, said that voting may be delayed for as long as four months because of the turmoil after Bhutto's assassination.
The election commission was expected to convene an emergency meeting today to decide whether to postpone the long-awaited vote. Rioters have targeted the commission's offices, and several have been burned to the ground."
So what is happening ON THE GROUND in Pakistan, readers?
"Karachi paralyzed by days of violence; Residents struggle to find food, fuel" by Burt Herman, Associated Press | December 31, 2007
KARACHI - Residents of Pakistan's largest city cautiously emerged from their homes yesterday and struggled to find food and fuel amid the blackened buildings, shattered glass, and burned-out vehicles on the streets of Karachi.
With police and troops patrolling, the city appeared quiet for the first time since Benazir Bhutto's assassination Thursday sparked a wave of rioting. The previous three days of clashes and looting had left at least 40 people dead across Sindh Province, where Karachi is located, provincial Home Minister Akhtar Zemin told the Associated Press.
Hundreds of bank branches were destroyed and 950 vehicles burned. The normally bustling port city remained a virtual ghost town, shocked by Bhutto's death. Nearly all shops were closed and streets normally packed with traffic were empty, save for boys playing cricket.
Mohammed Umar, 60, a retired government official, left his apartment to buy flatbread at one of only two shops open in a main market area. He said his wife normally bakes bread at home, but that they had run out of flour, sugar, and milk.
Umar said the night before he had watched looters cutting locks off shops and questioned why authorities were not taking more aggressive steps to stop the chaos:
"The government is purely responsible for this."
Next door, Mussarad Nasim Albert bought some laundry detergent from a supermarket where the shopkeeper peddled goods from beneath a metal door and through bars usually open during business hours. The 49-year-old nurse said she had been unable to get to work for the past few days.
Ms. Albert lamented that goods were now being sold at nearly double normal prices, and bought just a few necessities like potatoes and onions because of the crisis-spawned inflation:
"There is nothing in the house, I am searching for things."
Makeshift barriers surrounded almost every gas station, including one where 18-year-old Mohammad Shoaib was waiting in hope of filling up his small motorcycle, who had been set to take an entrance exam to earn a bachelor's degree in computer science, but the test was indefinitely postponed because of the violence.
Mr. Shoaib, of those who caused the destruction:
"These are the stupidest people who are doing this. We will have to rebuild it again."
Police with assault rifles were stationed on street corners across Karachi, and military patrols in armored vehicles rode through the rougher parts of the city, such as the notorious Lyari slums that have seen the most unrest.
Hundreds of Bhutto supporters gathered for memorial prayers at a party office, chanting "Benazir is innocent!" before marching into the streets. They were trailed by a police truck with an officer on top wielding a tear gas grenade launcher.
At Bhutto's house in the city, supporter Masi Mehru's tears welled behind her eyeglasses as she clasped her hands on her head and pounded her chest, saying she had not eaten because of grief since the former prime minister was killed at a campaign rally in the northern city of Rawalpindi.
Mehru, who is in her 70s: "I would rather have died instead of her."
She and her 40-year-old daughter, Husan Banu, wanted to pay their respects at the house, but had become stranded there because most transport in the city was shut down.
The military said in a statement that it was giving shelter to more than 5,000 people in the province who were stranded because of vandalized trains, taking some to their destinations via buses after clearing blocked roads."
"Bhutto's party picks son, spouse to lead; Bloc voices intent to compete in vote" by Griff Witte, Washington Post | December 31, 2007
KARACHI - The political announcements yesterday followed widespread rioting after Bhutto's death.
In Sindh Province, rioters had left a wide swath of destruction Saturday, with still-burning fuel tankers and smoldering tires littering the highways. And young men wearing Peoples Party head scarves had set up dozens of impromptu checkpoints along the major roads, looking for targets.
A spokesman for the Interior Ministry, retired Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema, said 174 banks had been burned and billons of rupees worth of property had been destroyed across the country. The violence drew threats of a stiffer government response.
Cheema: "We are warning people to stay calm and restrain themselves. They will be punished in the toughest way if it does not stop."
The army was out in force in many areas of Sindh on Saturday and appeared to be regaining control there. Elsewhere, however, unrest intensified. In Rawalpindi, riot police and Peoples Party supporters clashed near the spot where Bhutto was killed.
In the eastern city of Lahore, workers slept in their offices because public transportation was shut down and many were unable to get enough gas in their cars to go home. Families brought blankets and pillows to the airport, where they waited for flights that never left. All cafes, movie theaters, and markets remained closed in Lahore."
Did you get all that, reader.
What a GREAT SITUATION for the Pakistani people, huh?
How long until this sort of crap touches American society, shit-chewing 'Murkn?
WAKE the FUCK UP!!!!!!
Oh, and do you think Roger Cohen was on Bhutto's list, readers?
"Although Ms. Bhutto was twice expelled from office on charges of corruption, she kept up her visits to Washington, usually several a year. She would call on administration officials and members of Congress willing to see her as well as reporters and editors at The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Soon her American Christmas card list, excluding people in government and Congress, was up to 375 names."
No wonder we get the "democratic martyr" out of the "chairperson of the party for life" in our newspapers.
