Benazir Bhutto Assassinated

By borges, Section News Stand
Posted on Thu Dec 27, 2007 at 06:35:30 AM CST

I admired Benazir Bhutto over the years and thought she might craft some compromises in Pakistan with her recent return. Such a sad world now she is gone.

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From an AP Story via CapTimes:

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan -- Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated today in a suicide bombing that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, a party aide and a military official said.
"At 6:16 p.m. she expired," said Wasif Ali Khan, a member of Bhutto's party who was at Rawalpindi General Hospital where she was taken after the attack.
A senior military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment, confirmed that Bhutto had died.
Her supporters at the hospital began chanting "Dog, Musharraf, dog," referring to Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf. Some of them smashed the glass door at the main entrance of the emergency unit, others burst into tears.

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Benazir Bhutto Assassinated | 2 comments (2 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

U.S. Special Forces to Expand Presence in Pakistan (none / 0) (#1)
by Edward Barlow on Thu Dec 27, 2007 at 04:09:46 PM CST

This assasination is very sad - and very scary. Pakistan a country of 165 million people has Nuclear Weapons.
This following is a news clip from the Dec 27 show Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman.

U.S. Special Forces to Expand Presence in Pakistan

In other news on Pakistan, the Washington Post reports U.S. Special Forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan beginning in early 2008. The U.S. troops will reportedly take part in an effort to train and support Pakistani counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counterterrorism units. While the U.S. expands its presence in Pakistan, questions are being raised over how Pakistan has spent five billion dollars in U.S. aid sent since the Sept. 11 attacks. According to the New York Times, the money was supposed to have been spent to fight Al Qaeda and the Taliban. But now U.S. officials are admitting that funds were diverted to help finance weapons systems designed to counter India, another U.S. ally

NYT Sunday report (none / 0) (#2)
by borges on Mon Dec 31, 2007 at 08:14:30 AM CST

The Sunday Times had an interesting article about how she networked in Washington DC over the years and used that to become Prime Minister, and her recent come-back. She had an appeal in the West that apparently did not translate well further East. I think she really did care about her people more than herself and if given a chance might have made a difference. What next? is the question now.

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