Benazir Bhutto Murder: Important Updates
Since I wrote my last post “Benazir Bhutto Murder: US Intelligence Warnings Went Unheeded”?”, there have been two important developments. One, Pakistan government has “apologised” for claiming that former premier Benazir Bhutto died of a skull fracture after hitting the sunroof of her car during a suicide attack. Second, media reports have begun to circulate that Benazir Bhutto was assassinated “on orders of lower- and middle-level officers of the Pakistani army and air force.”
The Hindustan Times reports: “(Pakistan’s) Caretaker Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz Khan has asked the media and people to ‘forgive and ignore’ comments made by his ministry’s spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema which were slammed by her Pakistan People’s Party as ‘lies’ and led to an uproar at home and abroad.
“The government’s apparent damage control exercise on Cheema’s comments made at a news conference a day after Bhutto was assassinated at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on December 27, came after TV channels aired privately shot photos and video footage which showed a gunman shooting at Bhutto.
Here’s the United Press International editor’s comment: “According to a source who asked to remain unnamed, members of the Pakistani armed forces involved in Thursday’s killing of the former prime minister and leader of the opposition are sympathizers of the ultra-conservative Islamists with ties to the jihadis.
” ‘It’s worrying when half of your lower or mid-level Pak intelligence analysts have bin Laden screen savers on their computers,’ a former official of the CIA was reported to have commented.
“More than one analyst is of the opinion al-Qaida and other jihadis have managed to successfully penetrate Pakistan’s armed forces and security services. Given the fact Pakistan is in possession of nuclear weapons, the possibility of a pro-al-Qaida regime replacing President Pervez Musharraf would radically change the entire geopolitical alignment in southwest Asia, and it would have a spin-off effect on the Middle East, as well, primarily in regards to the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
Interesting games being played by the Pakistani establishment by giving different versions in the hope of confusing the public…well for quite some time now this has been an ongoing story!!!
