Fatal Bomb That Destroyed Bhutto Homecoming Rigged To Baby
If you wanted to get an idea of the ruthlessness of the enemy that the United States and countries battling terrorists are facing, just read this:
The bomb that ravaged Benazir Bhutto’s homecoming processional in October appears to have been rigged to the clothes of a baby who was held up for the former prime minister to embrace, Mrs. Bhutto said.
A man approached her armored truck, Mrs. Bhutto recounted, and was trying to hand across a small child as her motorcade inched through the thronged streets of Karachi. She remembers gesturing for the man to come closer.
“It was about 1 or 2 years old, and I think it was a girl,” Mrs. Bhutto told The Washington Times in her first public remarks about the baby.
“We feel it was a baby, kidnapped, and its clothes were rigged with explosives. He kept trying to hand it to people to hand to me. I’m a mother, I love babies, but the [streetlights] had already gone out, and I was worried about the baby getting dropped or hurt.”
Between the snuff films that masked as politically-motivated decapitations of terrorized (mostly Western) prisoners and this, you get an idea: there IS NO LINE. The Washington Times piece goes on:
Mrs. Bhutto would have been killed, she said, if she hadn’t stepped back to loosen the shoes on her swollen feet.
“The baby, the bomb, it went off only feet from me; there was nothing between us but the wall of the truck,” she said.
And, so, a little baby never got a chance to live because it was held by someone whose hatred overcame any semblance of humanity.
6 Responses to “Fatal Bomb That Destroyed Bhutto Homecoming Rigged To Baby”
Joe, I have to admit I was horrified – right up until I realized it was Bhutto herself making the claim, and in the Washington Times.
In light of someone thrusting a baby at her – which she took time to clearly ID as a female, “one or two years old,” does “Mrs. Bhutto would have been killed, she said, if she hadn’t stepped back to loosen the shoes on her swollen feet,” stand up to the smell test (given the credibility of the two sources involved)?
That’s not to say these aren’t ruthless, disgusting people that may well be capable of such things, only that Bhutto and the Times are well known for having their own specific agendas.
And so, I wonder.
I don’t doubt her on this. We had to make some decisions on TMV when those awful decapitation videos came out. I had to suffer through two of them…and that was enough. Terrorism experts have long warned that babies might be used so this isn’t a claim that’s outlandish at all. I see more reason to believe her on this than to doubt her.
I’ll defer to your experience and judgement here Joe, since I respect both in your case. But still I have to say I’m uncomfortable with the story and its sources.
Were I an editor presented with it, I’d surely want additional, well… more credible sourcing before publishing.
Just don’t join the truly polarizing element in our society, the rabid anti-Bush element, who would blame this on Bush, naturally.
I have long been in the squishy middle when it comes to torture. But this horrific tragedy in Pakistan, if true, would give weight to the argument of using some forms of torture in certain situations.
DLS, you’re the first person I’ve seen mention any blame of Bush about this.
And brerol, I’m not following your reasoning. What about this incident would make torture on our behalf the right thing to do?