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To: blam
"The Sunday Telegraph is not revealing their names for legal reasons" The names are as follows:

Retired Brigadier Ejaz Shah (he is head of the Intelligence Bureau, which is a part of the Interior Ministry) (like our FBI)

Ijaz-ul-Haq, he is the Religious Affairs Minister and is son Zia-ul-Huq, who hanged Bhutto’s father.

And an unknown official of the National Accountability Bureau who has been investigating Bhutto and her husband Zardari for corruption.

The Sunday Telegraph is keeping the names secret in a cheap attempt to bolster the effect of their news story of "un-named conspirators" (were they on the grassy knoll, too?)

It is known that there was only one main bomber as only one striker sleeve was found, the vest had about 40 pounds of C4 and ball bearings. AQ has a number of these vests ready to go, are very afraid and hate Bhutto and probably got a lower level Taliban commander to do the dirty work, my guess: Commander Haji Omar of Waziristan.

Here is the cynical aspect: Bhutto could have taken a helicopter instead of an entourage surrounded by 100,000 supporters that traveled only 12 km. in 10 hours, speeches along the way, etc.

She immediately talked of conspiracies against her. She was well aware of AQ/Taliban desires to kill her. What did she think was going to happen? Duh, a bomber showed up and now she can garner political sympathy and gin up a them vs. us scenario to get more votes, "I'm an outsider", "restoring democracy", on and on. The people she named are not that well organized with roaming hit squads, come on.

Lastly, the ISI is now headed by a trusted Musharraf loyalist, Nadeem Taj who is going to root out the Taliban supporters. The real ISI connections to the Taliban are through retired ISI officers who still have a lot of ISI intel access and influence. Musharraf wants them out worse than Bhutto, she will have little to do with it, but plenty to say about it.

Understand that Bhutto is a clever and capable politician, a Pakistani patriot and a friend to America. We cannot kill bin Laden without her, but will have to hold our noses from time to time for her political gamesmanship.

8 posted on 10/21/2007 5:16:35 PM PDT by gandalftb
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To: gandalftb; Carry_Okie

Bhutto’s IQ is off the charts. She’s also a “slit your throat while you sleep” type of gal.

She’ll eat the ISI for breakfast, and she’ll do so while keeping Musharraf in a position of power for himself, as well.

Sadly, her husband is corrupt...though in his favor he actually gets things done for the cut that he takes from each deal.

We could do worse.


10 posted on 10/22/2007 9:49:00 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: gandalftb
Re post 8: your comments are welcome and insightful. My only question is why it took so long for Mushie to reign in the ISI.
15 posted on 10/23/2007 6:06:02 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (How do I change my screen name after Harper's election?)
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