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Rawalpindi police opposed autopsy on Bhutto's body: Lawyer
Times of India ^ | 12/30/07

Posted on 12/30/2007 2:50:55 PM PST by bjs1779

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To: FreeReign
You do realize that many autopsies involve only "external post-mortem", right?

No, I don't. It's when you get the big V on your chest with loose stitches. Plus some buzz saw marks around your head.

21 posted on 12/30/2007 4:58:38 PM PST by bjs1779
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To: Gritty
We shouldn't be too critical of the way the Pakistanis do these things. After all, Ron Brown didn't get much of an autopsy, either. For that matter, neither did Vince Foster.

Both Ron Brown and Vince Foster were never declared by our government to have been assassinated. The same is not the case with Bhutto.

So what's the caper?

22 posted on 12/30/2007 5:00:22 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: bjs1779
You do realize that many autopsies involve only "external post-mortem", right?

No, I don't. It's when you get the big V on your chest with loose stitches. Plus some buzz saw marks around your head.

You're right, you don't.

23 posted on 12/30/2007 5:02:57 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
You're right, you don't.

Got a source for your remarks about autopsies under suspicous deaths? That should be easy to find.

24 posted on 12/30/2007 5:06:07 PM PST by bjs1779
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To: bjs1779
Further, our own media is quoting the same thing

As pressure increased on Pakistan to accept an international inquiry into Ms. Bhutto’s death, the team of doctors who frantically tried to revive her Thursday said they had requested an autopsy but were rebuffed by the chief of police in Rawalpindi, according to a member of the board of the hospital where she was treated.

The question of an autopsy has become central to the circumstances of Ms. Bhutto’s death because of conflicting versions put forward by the Pakistani government of how she died.

On the night Ms. Bhutto died, an unnamed Interior Ministry spokesman was quoted by the official Pakistani news agency as saying that the former prime minister had died of a “bullet wound in the neck by a suicide bomber.”

The next day, Javed Iqbal Cheema, the Interior Ministry spokesman, said at a news conference that Ms. Bhutto had died of a wound suffered when she hit her head on a lever attached to the sunroof of the vehicle that was carrying her through a crowd after a political rally. “Three shots were fired, but they missed her,” Mr. Cheema said. “Then there was an explosion.”

The explanation was greeted with disbelief by Ms. Bhutto’s supporters, ordinary Pakistanis and medical experts outside the government.

Pakistani and Western security experts said they believed the government’s insistence that Ms. Bhutto was not killed by a bullet was designed to deflect attention from the lack of government security around her vehicle as she left the park in the city where the Pakistani Army keeps its headquarters, and where the powerful Inter Services Intelligence agency has a strong presence, Pakistani and Western security experts said.


25 posted on 12/30/2007 5:10:37 PM PST by Saberwielder
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To: FreeReign
Both Ron Brown and Vince Foster were never declared by our government to have been assassinated. The same is not the case with Bhutto.

True. But they did have the pretense of an autopsy. Somehow, you seem to argue backwards. Bluttto did not have an autopsy, correct? And you seem to be comfortable without one.

26 posted on 12/30/2007 5:14:03 PM PST by bjs1779
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To: Saberwielder

Thanks. It can get time consuming with the demands that they place on one poster.


27 posted on 12/30/2007 5:16:15 PM PST by bjs1779
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To: bjs1779
Yup, for some people, the notion that their beloved dictator is covering up a murder is anathema.More from the NYT report I posted above:
In the open letter that Mr. Minallah distributed along with the medical report to the Pakistani news media and to The New York Times, Mr. Minallah suggested the doctors felt they were being pressured by the government to back the theory that she had died by hitting her head on the lever of the car’s sunroof.

But the doctors had stressed to him that “without an autopsy it is not at all possible to determine as to what had caused the injury,” Mr. Minallah wrote in his open letter.

The chief of police in Rawalpindi, Aziz Saud, “did not agree” to the autopsy request by the doctors, Mr. Minallah added.


28 posted on 12/30/2007 5:29:28 PM PST by Saberwielder
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To: Saberwielder
The chief of police in Rawalpindi, Aziz Saud, “did not agree” to the autopsy request by the doctors, Mr. Minallah added.

Hard to believe that a little old police chief has the power to quash an autopsy of a major political figure. I am sure some here will tell us otherwise. Thanks again.

29 posted on 12/30/2007 5:44:04 PM PST by bjs1779
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To: bjs1779
You do realize that many autopsies involve only "external post-mortem" using X-rays, right?

Somehow, you seem to argue backwards. Bluttto did not have an autopsy, correct? And you seem to be comfortable without one.

No, somehow you seem not to get it. What part of my above (in bold) comment are you having difficulty with?

Perhaps I can expound on it further for you.

Meanwhile I still await the quote that you said you were going to supply which shows that the Paki government said that they didn't do an autopsy.

30 posted on 12/30/2007 5:46:31 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: bjs1779
I spoke an old friend of mine who was in the Pakistani military. He tells me that the police have the right to conduct an autopsy before they hand over the body to the family. After that, unless a court orders it, the next of kin will have to grant permission for an autopsy.
31 posted on 12/30/2007 5:48:02 PM PST by Saberwielder
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To: Saberwielder
The chief of police in Rawalpindi, Aziz Saud, “did not agree” to the autopsy request by the doctors, Mr. Minallah added.

Three words? Not even a full sentence? What an absolutely pathetic quote.

Maybe the chief of police "did not agree" that a full V section cut of the entire body was needed since all she had was a head wound.

32 posted on 12/30/2007 5:51:27 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
Meanwhile I still await the quote that you said you were going to supply which shows that the Paki government said that they didn't do an autopsy.

Do me favor, show me where the Pakistan government did do an autopsy. You are not up to date my friend. No autopsy was done.

33 posted on 12/30/2007 5:52:39 PM PST by bjs1779
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To: Don Corleone
Lets get out that Excellent Warren Commission gang again and see what they can come up with. /sarc

We had boots on the ground there if they needed help. - Tom

By WILL BUNCH Philadelphia Daily News

PENNSYLVANIA Sen. Arlen Specter was in a hotel room last night in Islamabad, where he'd traveled to meet the top leaders of Pakistan, including opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, whom he was supposed to have dinner with at 9 p.m. local time.
As the world now knows, Bhutto never made it.

Less than three hours before she was supposed to join the Philadelphian and his traveling companion, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., Bhutto was assassinated by an attacker who shot the former prime minister as she left a campaign rally, then blew himself up, killing at least 20 others.

34 posted on 12/30/2007 5:57:59 PM PST by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse the Bushies with the dumb Republicans - Capt. Tom)
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To: bjs1779
Don't bother with this person. He/she has their head so far up Musharraf's rear that they will disbelieve it even if Musharraf goes on Fox News Sunday and accepts that he ordered the hit.

For the rest of the world, it is clear that the Pakistani authorities chose not to do an autopsy prior to handing over Bhutto's body to the family - for whatever reason.

35 posted on 12/30/2007 5:59:15 PM PST by Saberwielder
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To: Saberwielder
For the rest of the world, it is clear that the Pakistani authorities chose not to do an autopsy prior to handing over Bhutto's body to the family - for whatever reason.

That is correct. Let them state otherwise.

36 posted on 12/30/2007 6:02:15 PM PST by bjs1779
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To: Saberwielder
Don't bother with this person. He/she has their head so far up Musharraf's rear that they will disbelieve it even if Musharraf goes on Fox News Sunday and accepts that he ordered the hit. For the rest of the world, it is clear that the Pakistani authorities chose not to do an autopsy prior to handing over Bhutto's body to the family - for whatever reason.

Actually I've come to no conclusions about who killed Bhutto. It could have been Musharraf or more likely it could have been Al Qaeda.

You Saberwielder on the other hand apparently take the same side as The New York Times, The Times of India, Hillary Clinton and Al Qaeda on this as you now defend and spread the same propaganda that they spread.

37 posted on 12/30/2007 6:09:37 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
You Saberwielder on the other hand apparently take the same side as The New York Times, The Times of India, Hillary Clinton and Al Qaeda on this as you now defend and spread the same propaganda that they spread.

What a joke. Where do you get your propaganda from?

38 posted on 12/30/2007 6:12:09 PM PST by bjs1779
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To: bjs1779
What a joke. Where do you get your propaganda from?

I don't. but I know where you get yours.

39 posted on 12/30/2007 6:14:10 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
I don't. but I know where you get yours.

Does this mean that you are not quite all there?

40 posted on 12/30/2007 6:16:09 PM PST by bjs1779
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