And the New York Times doesn't even care!
"Pakistan Seen as Likely to Delay Elections" by JANE PERLEZ
LAHORE, Pakistan — Elsewhere in the country, there were only scattered reports of violence on Monday, primarily in Hyderabad and nearby Nawabshah, the hometown of Ms. Bhutto’s husband."
"Bhutto Spouse, Divisive Figure, Asserts Himself" by CARLOTTA GALL
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Asif Ali Zardari, a former member of Parliament who served as a minister in his wife's governments and who had been jailed on corruption charges, for the past three years has lived in a lavish apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Ms. Bhutto was clearly grooming her son for a political career at some point. She brought him to an interview with reporters for The New York Times at the Algonquin Hotel in New York in August."
"In Reversal, Pakistan Welcomes Outside Help With Inquiry on Bhutto" by ERIC SCHMITT
WASHINGTON — Senator Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee who met Mr. Durrani on Monday to pay his respects, said he told the ambassador that it was essential for Pakistan to open its investigation to outside help to quell conspiracy theories and accusations of a cover-up.
Mr. Hagel, in a telephone interview:
“Openness and transparency here is critical. The Pakistani government wants an optic that says, ‘We have nothing to hide.’”
So what about NINE-ELEVEN, Chuck?
Daniel S. Markey, a former South Asia expert at the State Department, said Monday that the Pakistani government had lost credibility with its shifting version of events of Ms. Bhutto’s death:
“The government has been reluctant to bring in anyone because it suggests they can’t conduct an investigation and it makes them look weak. But as long as they continue to bungle it, it makes them look weak and, even worse, it makes them look complicit.”
Well, if the shoe fits...
If allowed in, international forensic experts would have several hurdles. Ms. Bhutto has been buried and her family for now has ruled out exhuming her body for an autopsy. The fiery crime scene itself was hosed down by the authorities after the attack, washing away evidence, American officials said."
They WASHED AWAY EVIDENCE?
And why doesn't the Times cover this aspect of the assassination, readers?
"Doctors pressured on Bhutto death; Medical records were confiscated" by Emily Wax and Griff Witte, Washington Post | January 1, 2008
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - Pakistani authorities have pressured the medical personnel who tried to save Benazir Bhutto's life to remain silent about what happened in her final hour, and have removed records of her treatment from the facility, according to doctors.
In interviews, doctors who were at Bhutto's side at Rawalpindi General Hospital said they were under extreme pressure not to share details about the nature of the injuries the opposition leader sustained in an attack here Dec. 27.
A visibly shaken doctor who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue:
"The government took all the medical records right after Ms. Bhutto's time of death was read out."
The doctors now find themselves at the center of a political firestorm over the circumstances of Bhutto's death. The government has said Bhutto, 54, was killed after the force of a suicide bombing caused her head to slam against the lever of her vehicle's sunroof. Bhutto's supporters have pointed to video footage, including a new amateur video released yesterday, as proof that she was killed by gunfire.
The truth about what happened has serious implications in Pakistan. The ability of a gunman to fire at Bhutto from close range, as alleged by her supporters, would suggest that an assassin was able to breach government security in a city that serves as headquarters of the Pakistani military, bolstering her supporters' claims that the government failed to provide her with adequate protection.
If a gunman were to blame, it would also raise questions as to why the government has for days insisted otherwise. The government has repeatedly dismissed allegations of a coverup, and some US medical specialists, when asked to review an official hospital description of her wounds, speculated that a skull fracture and not a bullet wound killed Bhutto.
A newly released video that was obtained by Britain's Channel 4 and broadcast yesterday cast doubt on the government's assertions and appeared to corroborate witnesses' stories. The footage appeared to show a gunman and a suspected suicide bomber approaching Bhutto's sport utility vehicle. Seconds later, the video showed gunfire and Bhutto's hair and scarf being blown back just as a bomb explodes.
Jameel Yusuf, a lead investigator in the 2002 disappearance of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi, said the Pakistani government had blundered badly by not sealing off the crime scene. Moments after Bhutto was killed, workers hosed down the blood at the blast site before any evidence could be collected.
Yusuf: "When you're dealing with a murder of this nature, you need to have forensics."
Several witnesses say they have yet to be interviewed by police.
Kamran Nazir, 19, was badly injured at the rally by shrapnel. Yesterday, he was at Rawalpindi General, his father at his bedside. His breathing was labored, and the top layer of skin on his face was singed off. He said he was shocked that police had not questioned him.
Mr. Nazir, as his father's eyes watered: "Why is no one asking me what happened?"
Babar Awan, a top official in Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party who said he saw Bhutto's body after the attack and identified two clearly defined bullet wounds - entry and exit points:
"The truth is, there really is no investigation at all. [The principal professor of surgery at the hospital, Muhammad Mussadiq Khan, was] extremely nervous, but eventually told me that Bhutto had died of a bullet wound. He told me firsthand he was under pressure not to talk about how she died."
Reached at his home in Islamabad, Khan declined to comment, saying he worked for a government hospital and was trying to "do my duty and remain a doctor." Over the weekend, Athar Minallah, a board member at Rawalpindi General, e-mailed journalists Bhutto's medical report. The report, which was separate from documents that doctors say have been confiscated, describes a deep wound in Bhutto's head that was leaking brain matter.
No "foreign body" was found in the wound, the report says, and no exit wound was recorded. But in an X-ray of Bhutto's skull, the doctors identified "two to three tiny radio-densities." Minallah said in an interview that the report suggested those were bullet fragments.
US medical specialists said the "radio-densities" were probably not bullets.
Thomas Scalea, physician in chief of the shock trauma center at the University of Maryland Medical Center, said that while there was no evidence of a bullet wound, he was also perplexed by how the blunt force of Bhutto's head against an object could have caused brain damage severe enough to kill her so quickly:
"The whole thing strikes me as very unusual."
In the understatement of the year so far!
