Update: Police abandoned security posts before Bhutto assassination
And it just happened yesterday, too!
The fucking Zionist-controlled War Dailies can't tell the truth about anything, can they?
This will give you a good feel for the shit-shift I have to do everyday, readers.
"Turmoil grips Pakistan; 20 others die in scene of blood and anguish" by Laura King, Los Angeles Times | December 28, 2007
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - There were conflicting reports on whether there were one or two attackers.
In Washington, FBI and Homeland Security officials sent a bulletin to law enforcement agencies nationwide citing Islamist websites as saying Al Qaeda had claimed responsibility for the attack and that Ayman al-Zawahri, the second ranking leader of the group, had planned it.
FBI spokesman Richard Kolko: "[The agency] continues to work with our US intelligence community partners, reviewing the Al Qaeda claims for responsibility for any intelligence value. The validity of those claims is undetermined."
Yup, "Al-CIA-Duh" did it, as you will see, reader.
Keep reading!
The country was immediately put on a heightened state of alert after the assassination. Police and paramilitary troops poured into the streets, and long into the night, helicopters hovered over Rawalpindi and the adjoining capital, Islamabad.
And CUI BONO, readers?
Police generally gave protesters a wide berth, apparently fearful of further inflaming them.
In some ways, Bhutto's assassination was a death foretold. She had spoken often about the prospect of a violent end at the hands of Islamic extremists or other assailants. She did so again just before the attack that killed her.
She told a flag-waving crowd of supporters at the rally:
"I risked my life and came here because I believe our country is in danger."
Bhutto had said she believed that rogue elements in the government had conspired in a previous assassination attempt in October.
Yesterday's attack came at dusk (also). Those entering the gated public park encountered some security barriers. Everyone had to pass through metal detectors and undergo a body search, with female police officers frisking women.
Then WTF?!!! INSIDE JOB!!!!!!!
But the police presence was relatively light; Bhutto's private security guards hustled her on and off the stage and kept watch over the crowd, cradling automatic weapons. Once she left the rally grounds there was no police escort, only Bhutto's own force of volunteer guards surrounding her car, putting their bodies between her and any attacker.
INSIDE JOB STINK!!!!!!!!!!!
Yesterday's carefully choreographed assault cut Bhutto down without mercy.
I smell an INSIDE JOB CUI BONO stink, readers?
As she waved, gunshots sounded and she was hit in the head and neck, aides said. Bhutto sank back into her seat, just as a suicide bomber detonated explosives to the left of her vehicle. People inside the SUV said her face and neck were badly bloodied, apparently from the bullets. As blood poured from her body in the back seat she lost consciousness, aides said, and never regained it.
Screaming, weeping supporters converged on Rawalpindi General Hospital, where Bhutto was taken after the attack. Doctors performed emergency surgery but Bhutto went into cardiac arrest and her heart could not be restarted, said Dr. Abbas Hayat, head of the hospital's pathology department. She was declared dead at 6:16 p.m. Police apparently did not request an autopsy, Pakistan's Dawn TV reported.
Still with me, readers?!
Getting a clue now that what I say is TRUTH?
The hospital's plate-glass front doors were shattered by the crush of people trying to enter the building. They flooded into the foyer and up the stairs leading to the operating rooms, forcing attendants to muscle their way through the crowd bearing stretchers that carried the wounded. Some beat their chests and howled with grief.
Musharraf, in a nationally televised speech:
"This is the work of those terrorists with whom we are engaged in war. I have been saying that the nation faces the greatest threats from these terrorists. . . . We will not rest until we eliminate these terrorists and root them out."
Yeah, while he cuts deals with them and oppresses his political opponents!!!
Not buying the pile of shit you selling, Mushy!!!!!!!!!!
Bhutto's death leaves a leadership void within the Pakistan People's Party, the country's largest political bloc. Within the party she was an autocratic figure, sidelining opponents and grooming no successor. She used the title "chairperson for life."
That's Pakistan's "democratic" martyr?
I think I'm gonna puke!
She was a child of privilege, born into a wealthy land-owning clan, educated at Harvard and Oxford. But she knew pain and privation as well, spending years in squalid jails or in exile before making her first triumphal return to Pakistan in 1986, seven years after her father was executed. She was twice elected prime minister and twice removed on charges of incompetence and corruption.
Bhutto could be imperious, but her charisma was undeniable. At the rally, followers waited excitedly for a glimpse of her, pressing against the security fence that separated her from the crowd.
In the violence after her death, one man was killed in a shootout between police and protesters in Tando Allahyar, a town 120 miles north of Karachi, Pakistan's commercial hub, said Mayor Kanwar Naveed. At least four others, including a police officer, were killed in Karachi; two were killed elsewhere in southern Sindh province and two in Lahore, police said.
Karachi shopkeepers quickly shut their stores as protesters burned vehicles, a gas station, and tires on the roads, said Fayyaz Leghri, a local police official. Gunmen shot and wounded two police officers, he said.
Bhutto's supporters in many towns burned banks, shops, and state-run grocery stores. Some torched ruling party election offices, according to Pakistani media.
Authorities will deploy troops to stop violence, if needed, said Akthar Zamin, home minister for Sindh province."
Ready for some contradictory reporting, readers?
Feast!
"US efforts for stability in key ally are shaken" by Farah Stockman Boston Globe | December 28, 2007
WASHINGTON - With rumors of the government's hand in Bhutto's slaying running high, the elections could actually reverse progress toward a stable coalition government, analysts said. In a country rife with conspiracy theories, members of Bhutto's party are already accusing Musharraf of being unwilling or unable to protect her, stirring anger and resentment that could make cooperation between Musharraf and the party impossible.
Yeah, anyone who even suggests government involvement is a "conspiracy" theorists, according to the lying, war-promoting, shit-bag Zionist War Dailies!
Take what the Zionist papers tell you, readers, turn it inside-out, backwards, and upside-down, and then you will find the truth!
Better yet READ SOME BLOGS!!!!
Rehman Malik, Bhutto's top security adviser and a former senior official with Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency, had already accused Musharraf's government of supplying Bhutto's convoy with faulty bomb-jamming devices. Joseph Szlavik Jr., president of Scribe Strategies & Advisors and a political adviser to Bhutto, said the government initially resisted allowing Bhutto to bring in her own bullet-proof cars.
Hassan Abbas, a former aide to Musharraf who is currently at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, said the security failure was so damaging that Musharraf's political future has been gravely wounded:
"I doubt that PPP will be willing to work with Musharraf anymore."
Christine Fair, a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, a Santa Monica-based think tank:
"There will be those who hold him accountable even if he and his [security] services are innocent."
But US officials seemed to hold out hope yesterday for the best-case scenario: that elections would go forward quickly, and that a new leader of the PPP could emerge who could win a swath of seats in parliament on a moderate platform that draws on Bhutto's martyrdom - without her sometimes divisive personality or the taint of corruption that dogged her campaign.
Daniel Markey, a former member of the State Department's policy planning staff from 2002 to early 2007:
"You could imagine a rosy scenario. A much less divisive figure [could emerge] that could work with Musharraf, and work with the army."
Oh my God, the CIA REALLY DID KILL HER!!!!!!!!!!!
CUI BONO, readers?
Yesterday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made brief condolence calls to two men who are considered likely candidates to replace Bhutto: her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, and her deputy, Makhodoom Amin Fahim.
But Zardari suffers from the same taint of corruption that plagued his wife, hampering her return to politics after two previous stints as her country's prime minister. Analysts say Fahim lacks the charisma and political strength he would need to lead a party that has always had a Bhutto at its helm, but US officials did not dismiss him right away.
One official, speaking on the condition of anonymity:
"He will be tested, and tested quickly. How strong a leader was Harry Truman after Roosevelt died?"
Are you kidding? Comparing this situation to Truman's?
Government propaganda here at work in my Boston Globe, readers -- owned by the New York Times!
Other possible candidates include Aitzaz Ahsan, a well-respected attorney and PPP member who was at the forefront of lawyers' opposition to Musharraf. Another potential PPP leader is Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, a former Pakistan interior minister who leads a breakaway faction of the PPP. He was a target in a recent, unsuccessful, suicide attack.
Look at this list of "next-ups" -- as if the list was READY TO GO, huh, readers?
Oh, whadda STINK!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nawaz Sharif, head of another opposition party who returned from exile, announced yesterday that he would boycott the vote. Four of his supporters were killed yesterday in a separate attack.
Marvin Weinbaum, a former State Department Pakistan analyst, said the White House is still backing Musharraf. US officials are still hoping that elections will salvage Musharraf's government:
"[Elections] don't serve anyone's purpose now. [If Musharraf wins big it will only add to the suspicion he is responsible for the assassination]."
Yup, NO ELECTIONS, and a huge, steaming stinkpile of CUI BONO stink!!!!!!!!
Tom Casey, a spokesman for the State Department:
"No political system can last long without having legitimacy in the eyes of its people."
That's why the U.S. system is collapsing, and why Americans are increasingly turning to Ron Paul for President!
And look who was in town:
"US lawmakers were to meet with Bhutto; cut trip short" by Laurie Kellman, Associated Press | December 28, 2007
WASHINGTON - Two US lawmakers scheduled to meet yesterday with Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's former prime minister, and President Pervez Musharraf were advised to leave the country after Bhutto's assassination.
Representative Patrick Kennedy, Democrat of Rhode Island, and Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, were staying at an Islamabad hotel and were scheduled to dine with Musharraf and meet later in the night with Bhutto.
Specter said he heard about the attack on Bhutto as he was dressing for the dinner with Musharraf, and emotionally described her death:
"A real, real, real shock. Our foreign policy had relied on her presence as a stabilizing force. I knew her personally. . . . She was, as you know, glamorous, beautiful, smart. Her loss is a setback. But you have to face what is. And now, without her, we have to regroup."
After learning she was dead, Specter, Kennedy, and Anne Patterson, the US ambassador to Pakistan, laid flowers under Bhutto's photograph at her campaign headquarters in what they described as an unsettling atmosphere.
Specter, describing the people there:
"They were crying and they were sobbing. It's a night reminiscent of . . . Robert Kennedy's assassination."
Yeah, so was Bhutto killed by a MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE like RFK was?
Specter said he felt apprehensive about being out at night as an American. The lawmakers said they were cutting their trip by a day on the advice of the State Department. Both lawmakers said turmoil was engulfing the country.
Specter told MSNBC:
"Our concerns are about what is happening here, the stability; what's happening with the supreme court; what's happening with our fight against terrorism, our efforts to capture Osama bin Laden; and what is happening to the very substantial funding the United States has put in here; what the prospects were for the election. I've known Benazir Bhutto for the better part of two decades, having been visiting her in Karachi back in 1988, and when she was prime minister in 1995, and we were looking forward to talking to her to get to her evaluation on whether the elections would be honest and open, and to get her sense of the situation."
And CUI BONO, readers?
So WHO does the AmeriKan MSM say did it, readers?
"Threats issued by many militant groups" by Kathy Gannon, Associated Press | December 28, 2007
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Benazir Bhutto was the target of threats from virtually all of the militant groups who make Pakistan their home - from Al Qaeda to homegrown terrorists to tribal insurgents on the Afghan border.
Her assassination after a rally in the garrison city of Rawalpindi - where the country's military and intelligence services are based - also focused anger and suspicion on the government of President Pervez Musharraf.
The former prime minister had blamed Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and homegrown militants for a suicide bombing that tore through a procession welcoming her back from exile in October.
But she accused militant "sympathizers" in Musharraf's administration of backing the attempt on her life, and Bhutto's supporters chanted, "Killer, Killer, Musharraf!" outside the hospital where she was pronounced dead yesterday.
Al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahri decried Bhutto's return in a video message this month and called for attacks on all the candidates in Pakistan's Jan. 8 parliamentary elections, for which Bhutto and her opposition party were campaigning.
Bhutto once said that several Pakistanis arrested in an assassination attempt during her second term in mid-1990s had said they were following Osama bin Laden's orders.
Bhutto, who forcefully pledged to redouble Pakistan's fight against Islamic militancy, was also despised by Taliban-style radicals backed by tribes along the Afghan border.
Baitullah Mehsud, a tribal warlord in the Waziristan region, was quoted in a Pakistani newspaper as saying that he would welcome Bhutto's return from exile with suicide bombers. He later denied that in statements to local television and newspaper reporters.
Bhutto also was labeled an infidel by other groups, such as Jaish-ul Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Hezb-ul Mujahedeen, which were spawned by Pakistan's military and intelligence services to take on neighboring India in the disputed Kashmir region.
The groups later aligned themselves with Al Qaeda and have vowed to battle foreign troops in Afghanistan and wage war against the Pakistani military for its support of the US-led antiterror campaign. Some of their leaders have said Bhutto deserved to die for her threats to crush militants.
Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former senior director for South Asia on the National Security Council:
"I think by far the most likely [suspect] is the Al Qaeda organization, which has been trying to kill Bhutto for the better part of the decade. If it's not them, it's certainly one of the groups that are sympathetic with them. They all work together and share a common antipathy to Bhutto because she's a woman, an advocate of secularism, a supporter of democracy and everything they stand against."
In Washington, FBI and Homeland Security officials sent a bulletin to law enforcement agencies nationwide citing Islamist websites as saying Al Qaeda had claimed responsibility for the attack and that Zawahri had planned it.
You mean, THIS "Al-CIA-Duh?"
Also see: "Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
Did I mention the Pentagon's MSM press offices in Lincoln, the Pentagon and Langley?
And why do the "Al-CIA-Duh" sites track back to Texas or Maryland?
Retired army General Hamid Gul, a former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence secret service agency, questioned the security arrangements made for Bhutto's rally. A cordon of police surrounded the park where Bhutto spoke, yet her attacker was able to get to the rear gate, where he shot her as she was leaving and then detonated himself, according to witnesses.
Gul, in an interview, also asserted that a suicide bomber couldn't have carried out the attack without being forewarned of Bhutto's movements with a cellphone or other device, without offering specifics:
"How could they enter with so much of a police cordon. I am surprised. Why were the jammers not working? She had been begging the government after the attack in Karachi saying the jammers were faulty then. I think it is convenient to put the blame on Al Qaeda. But there are other possibilities and they have to be examined."
Really getting that INSIDE JOB STINK SMELL, aren't you, readers?
Bhutto had complained after the October assassination attempt in the city of Karachi that devices used to jam cellphone signals had not been working.
Really getting that INSIDE JOB STINK SMELL, aren't you, readers?
In an interview with the Associated Press in November, a former district leader of Hezb-ul Mujahedeen said some members of Pakistan's intelligence establishment resented both the idea of a woman leading a Muslim nation, as well as Bhutto's verbal assault against militant Muslims."
Let's see how the lead Zionist liar, the New York Times plays it (all on the turn-in, of course!):
"Bhutto Assassination Ignites Disarray" by SALMAN MASOOD and CARLOTTA GALL
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — The attack bore hallmarks of the Qaeda-linked militants in Pakistan. But witnesses described a sniper firing from a nearby building, raising questions about how well the government had protected her in a usually well-guarded garrison town and fueling speculation that government sympathizers had played a part.
Now a SNIPER got her?
WTF!???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On Thursday evening, officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin to local law enforcement agencies informing them about posts on some Islamic Web sites saying that Al Qaeda was claiming responsibility for the attack, and that the plot was orchestrated by Ayman al-Zawahri, the group’s second-ranking official.
One counterterrorism official in Washington said that the bulletin neither confirmed nor discredited these claims. The official said that American intelligence agencies had yet to come to any firm judgments about who was responsible for Ms. Bhutto’s death.
But the AMERIKAN MSM SURE HAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Musharraf went on national television on Thursday evening, describing the killing as “a great national tragedy,” announcing a three-day period of national mourning, calling it a terrorist attack and vowing to continue to fight to root out the terrorists:
“I appeal to the nation to remain peaceful and show restraint.”
There were differing accounts of the attack. Zamrud Khan, a member of her party, said Ms. Bhutto was shot in the head from gunfire that originated from behind her car in a building nearby. Seconds later a suicide bomber detonated his bomb, damaging one of the cars in her motorcade and killing some 15 people on the ground, Mr. Khan said.
The Interior Ministry spokesman quoted by the state news agency, The Associated Press of Pakistan, said that the suicide bomber first fired on Ms. Bhutto and then blew himself up.
Amid the confusion after the explosion, the site was littered with pools of blood. Shoes and caps of party workers were lying on the asphalt. More than a dozen ambulances pushed through crowds of dazed and wounded people at the scene of the assassination.
Witnesses described hearing gunfire barely a minute before the loud explosion.
Sajid Hussain, who had a shrapnel wound on his left hand, said he had heard at least three shots fired:
“Then there was a big explosion, the earth seemed to tremble, I fell down. And everything was covered in black smoke.”
Tauqir Zia, a retired general who recently joined Ms. Bhutto's party, said he was sitting in a car ahead of Ms. Bhutto before the blast:
“A leader has to come out and lead and she did exactly that, but I would ask where was the security? How did they allow people to come so close to her? It is inconceivable. There is a definite lapse of security.”
Dr. Abbas Hayat of Rawalpindi General Hospital said that doctors had tried for 35 minutes to resuscitate Ms. Bhutto, who he said had wounds to her head as well as shrapnel injuries.
Dr. Mohamed Mussadik, head of the medical college in Rawalpindi and a top surgeon who attended to Ms. Bhutto at the hospital, said she was clinically dead on arrival, according to Athar Minallah, a lawyer who had served in the Musharraf government but who has since helped lead the movement against him. In a telephone interview, Mr. Minallah said Dr. Mussadik had told him that the bullet wound was in the head.
Mr. Minallah said an independent, credible investigation into the assassination was critical, perhaps in partnership with an outside country, and a precedent for this was the investigation into the murder of Ms. Bhutto’s brother 11 years ago:
“The government has to allow it, because the entire blame is on the government. Everyone I have spoken to believes it is the government that has done this. That makes the investigation of utmost importance.”
Yeah, right! Did the U.S. ask for outside help on the 9/11 thing?
Apparently no autopsy was done, because the police did not request one, Dawn TV reported. Lawyers calling for an international neutral investigation are raising questions about the speed with which Ms. Bhutto’s body was moved. The body arrived in her southern home province, Sindh, before dawn, party officials told Agence-France Presse.
Yeah, like them wisking JFK out of Texas that day!
The assassination is likely to deepen suspicion among Ms. Bhutto’s supporters of Pakistan’s security agencies. Ms. Bhutto has long accused parts of the government, namely the country’s premier military intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, of working against her and her party because they oppose her liberal, secular agenda.
In a letter she sent to Mr. Musharraf just before her return to Pakistan in October, she listed “three individuals and more” who should be investigated for their sympathies with the militants in case she was assassinated.
An aide close to Ms. Bhutto said that one of those named in the letter was Ijaz Shah, the director general of the Intelligence Bureau, another of the country’s intelligence agencies, and a close associate of Mr. Musharraf’s.
The second official was the head of the country’s National Accountability Bureau, which had investigated Ms. Bhutto on corruption charges. The third was a former official in Punjab Province who had mistreated her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, when he was in jail awaiting trial on corruption charges.
In an interview after Ms. Bhutto released the letter, a close aide to Mr. Musharraf said the people named in the letter were all political enemies of Ms. Bhutto. He said they did not have sympathy with militants and the government was doing all it could to protect Ms. Bhutto.
A former senior Pakistani intelligence official said he did not believe that the country’s intelligence agency was involved. He blamed militants for the assassination, but said government-provided protection was far too lax and the area surrounding the rally should have been better secured.
Yeah, back to the COVER-STORY LIE!!!!
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity:
“For sure, the government was complicit in the security aspects. I think the security arrangements of the police, they were not professionally handled.”
I've about had it with the MSM lies, readers.
How about you?
"Salvaging U.S. Diplomacy Amid Division" by HELENE COOPER and STEVEN LEE MYERS
WASHINGTON — The assassination of Benazir Bhutto on Thursday highlighted, in spectacular fashion, the failure of two of President Bush’s main objectives in the region: his quest to bring democracy to the Muslim world, and his drive to force out the Islamist militants who have hung on tenaciously in Pakistan, the nuclear-armed state considered ground zero in President Bush’s fight against terrorism, despite the administration’s long-running effort to root out Al Qaeda from the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
That's the Zionist-controlled version of history your textbooks will later record, 'Murkn!
Like eating Jew shit for history, readers?
Foreign policy analysts and diplomats said that if there were one thing that Ms. Bhutto’s assassination has made clear, it was the inability of the United States to manipulate the internal political affairs of Pakistan. Even before the assassination, the United States had limited influence and did not back Ms. Bhutto to the hilt.
First of all, these are such bullshit lies, I don't know where to begin.
Notice the tone, readers.
Like the U.S. has a right to interfere in other nation's politics!
Why are we a "player" in Pakistan's politics at all?
The U.S. is to Pakistan as ISRAEL is to the U.S., huh?
Wendy Chamberlin, a former United States ambassador to Pakistan, adding that as such, the United States was partly to blame for Mr. Musharraf’s dip in popularity:
“We are a player in the Pakistani political system. This is Pakistan. And Pakistan is a very dangerous and violent place.”
Sigh!
The Bhutto assassination upends the plan, but Bush administration officials on Thursday had still not given up hope that Mr. Musharraf may be able to strike a ruling coalition with whoever becomes Ms. Bhutto’s successor in her Pakistan Peoples Party.
Yeah, let's just go ahead!
Bury that dead ladies body, quick!
The problem with that scenario, though, is that Pakistani political parties are much more about strong, powerful individuals — like Mr. Musharraf, Ms. Bhutto, or Mr. Sharif — than about the parties themselves.
And that is different from AmeriKa how?
Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, was in Islamabad with Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, Democrat of Rhode Island, on a scheduled trip and preparing to meet Ms. Bhutto at 9 p.m. Thursday when the news of the bombing broke. They watched the news in their hotel, with initial reports that she had escaped injury giving way to confirmation of her death.
Mr. Specter told reporters by telephone:
“I think our foreign policy relied on her personality as a stabilizing force. Now, without her, we have to regroup.”
Yeah, yeah, back to the political bullshit my shit sheets focus incessantly on:
"Musharraf’s Political Future Appears Troubled" by DAVID ROHDE
At the core of Mr. Musharraf’s problem is a widespread perception that he did too little to protect Ms. Bhutto or that his government carried out the killing itself, analysts said.
On Thursday, members of Ms. Bhutto’s party accused Mr. Musharraf’s government of exactly that. And Mr. Musharraf’s own supporters blamed the government for lax security.
Ikram Sehgal, a Pakistani security expert who served in the military with Mr. Musharraf:
“The government had responsibility to ensure that she was safe. There was a concerted effort to get her.”
As it has been for decades, the arbiter of power in the end will be Pakistan's army, analysts said.
Teresita Schaffer, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington:
“An awful lot depends on how the army reacts. Do they clamp down? Are they reluctant to clamp down? Do they blame Musharraf?”
They will do what their U.S. masters tell them to do.
Duh!
And here is a question:
Why was there video footage right up until the attack, then right after the attack?
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