Why? Presumably because Mu and George Bush and others of that ilk have it in for Al Q and have been warning about them and fighting them, and lordie be we can't admit there was anything to that, now can we? Wake up people. It is all blown smoke, Al Q did this precisely to prevent the people and army in Pakistan from working together against them, and wants everyone to fight over it instead of going after them.
I’m not saying it’s not plausible. I am saying that I’m a bit surprised there was no shrapnel in her head, since it seems to be standard AQ procedure to load a suicide vest up with metal on the outside to enhance its killing power, like a fragmentation grenade. It’s also sad for her and her family that she took an unnecessary risk like standing up out of the sunroof when leaving the rally.
The real problem is that the rapid contradictory reports (gunshots, then no gunshots but shrapnel, now no shrapnel but basically blunt force trauma) are playing right into AQ’s hands, because they’re going to increase the suspicion among Bhutto’s supporters that the Pakistani government offed her—and considering how heavily infiltrated the ISI is, it may not be an inaccurate conclusion. That doesn’t mean Musharraf did it. He can’t control all the elements in the ISI.
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Amen to that. Unfortunately for Pakistan the fly trap will have to be moved. The DUmmie Richardson almost got it right. Musharraf needs to step aside rather than step down. We should turn those border mountains to dust.