New Video of Bhutto's Assassination Raises Questions

Do see the video for yourself here at this webpage. Do see the assassins. Do hear the gunshots fired. Do see Benazir Bhutto's head scarf go flying. Do see her fall back inside her bomb-proof vehicle BEFORE the explosion of the suicide bomber. None of the other persons inside that vehicle were killed.

And the official Pakistani version of events says there were no bullet wounds on Benazir Bhutto. The official government version says that Benazir Bhutto was "accidentally" killed when she hit her head on the sunroof of her vehicle.

Video proof and eyewitness accounts show otherwise. It is obvious the Pakistani government is lying.

WHY?

See the article and the video

And this: Meanwhile, The Chicago Tribune had a good rundown yesterday on the government's "bizarre" inquiry into Bhutto's assassination. Beyond the now-infamous decision not to perform an autopsy, there was the decision to cordon off the crime scene and wash it down with fire hoses afterward. [item found on TPM Muckraker]

Sources: Bhutto was to give U.S. lawmakers vote-rigging report

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- On the day she died, Benazir Bhutto planned to hand over to visiting U.S. lawmakers a report accusing Pakistan's intelligence services of a plot to rig parliamentary elections, sources close to the slain former Pakistani prime minister told CNN Tuesday.

Bhutto was assassinated Thursday, hours before a scheduled meeting with Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-Rhode Island, and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania.

A top Bhutto aide who helped write the report showed a copy to CNN.

"Where an opposing candidate is strong in an area, they [supporters of President Pervez Musharraf ] have planned to create a conflict at the polling station, even killing people if necessary, to stop polls at least three to four hours," the document says.

The report also accused the government of planning to tamper with ballots and voter lists, intimidate opposition candidates and misuse U.S.-made equipment to monitor communications of opponents.

"Ninety percent of the equipment that the USA gave the government of Pakistan to fight terrorism is being used to monitor and to keep a check on their political opponents," the report says.

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This could grow into a nasty problem for the United States and President Bush. Musharraf is an "ally" who plays both ends against the middle but he's still our guy in Islamabad. They can't all be our bestest buddies.

However, if evidence mounts that Musharraf was behind Bhutto's assassination, how will that affect Pakistan's instability and its vulnerability to terrorists and how will it ultimately affect its relationship to the United States and the role it plays in helping us as an ally?

If Musharraf gets his ticket punched due to scandal, will the replacement dictator also be our ally?

Two Items on Benazir Bhutto

...both from "The Huffington Post."

First, Arianna Huffington's personal recollection of Benazir Bhutto who might have preferred to be a housewife and mother but who put aside her personal wants to serve the people of Pakistan.

Then, a startling email from Benazir Bhutto herself, read on-air by Wolf Blitzer and which had been kept secret, to be revealed only in the event of her assassination. Ms. Bhutto makes the point in her email that any assassin who could get past all the protection and security that surrounded her would have to have official help and so she points the finger at Musharaff in the event she is killed.