Posted on 01/01/2008 9:36:44 PM PST by Lorianne
BILAWAL Bhutto Zardari will receive 24-hour security at Oxford University from now on, as the institution and British intelligence services grapple with the danger of having one of the world's top assassination targets strolling around the campus.
The 19-year-old son of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto wants to spend the next three years studying history at Oxford before taking full-time control of his mother's political party, and continuing Pakistan's most fabled and endangered political dynasty.
The question being faced by university officials, local police and British intelligence is whether they can allow such a high-profile target to remain on campus without endangering his life and the safety of his fellow students.
Apart from the risk of Islamic extremists and other enemies of his family sending hitmen from Pakistan, there may be a threat to Mr Zardari from within the British community. Three of the four killers who blew up three London trains and a bus on July 7, 2005, were of Pakistani descent.
Mr Zardari has moved around the university without bodyguards or any obvious protection in the three months since he enrolled at Christ Church, the university's largest college, but that is now out of the question if he is to be allowed to stay at the university at all.
Scotland Yard's Diplomatic Protection Group will carry out a risk assessment and talk to PPP officials, while the university is reviewing its own security for the teenager and his fellow students.
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If Bilawal had a ha’penworth o’ brains he’d tell them what they could do with their coronation.
Of course, if the late Rajiv Ghandi had a lick o’ sense he would have stayed an airline pilot.
I wonder if he could still have life at Oxford campus even if he widely known nowwww
He had sent peacekeeping troops to Sri Lanka in the ‘80s. The separatists in that nation, which suffered losses because of that intervention, sought revenge for it, by assassinating him.
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The kid must be a moderate Muslim because the name of his college is Christ Church.’
Not exactly the Merry Olde of old.
What I was saying was that Rajiv Ghandi should have declined the throne when his mother got offed by her Sikh bodyguards during the Amritsar pogrom of 84’. He was not the heir apparent but his older brother Sanjay had been killed crashing his airplane earlier.
This dynastic politics is abhorrent to a democracy. Needless to say, we should not be going down that road ourselves.
thanks KG.
At least he’s not waving the ACLU card to have the college name changed...and regardless of his major, he already knows what his post college job will be.
How would I go about taking full control of the Republican Party? Hillary has more political experience than this kid, but someday he will no doubt either be the leader(dictator)of Pakistan or assassinated like his mother.
Case-in-point, Ronald Reagan Jr.
Interesting.
I need to read up on the Bhutto family — from what the Enemedia says, this is a good family. But I have heard Pakistanis on various conservative talk shows saying otherwise. Admittedly I know very little, and I need to learn more.
“”I’d say so.
Not exactly the Merry Olde of old””
Not a cat in hells chance of actually happening.
Are all political parties in Pakistan owned by individuals, as this statement suggests? Is Bhutto’s party akin to a monarchy and thereby considered royalty?
I do understand the tribalism that controls the north, but I don’t get how these political parties operate. Help!!
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