Who Killed Benazir Bhutto?

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Who did it?

The (UK) Times has an article
out that casts a very dark cloud of suspicion over the Pakistani
government’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). While they make sure
not to implicate Prime Minister Musharraf in their accusations they
really don’t have much to base their accusation on other than innuendo.
If the ISI did do this then Pakistan can absolutely not be trusted.
But, we really don’t know.

The (UK) Times is doing a great disservice by reporting what amounts to a rumor, especially considering al Qaeda seems to have already taken credit for the attack. So you can see it here, here’s the piece from the Times:

The main suspects in Benazir Bhutto’s assassination are
the Pakistani and foreign Islamist militants who saw her as a heretic
and an American stooge and had repeatedly threatened to kill her.

But fingers will also be pointed at Inter-Services Intelligence, the
agency that has had close ties to the Islamists since the 1970s and has
been used by successive Pakistani leaders to suppress political
opposition.

Ms Bhutto narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in October, when
a suicide bomber killed about 140 people at a rally in the port city of
Karachi to welcome her back from eight years in exile.

Earlier that month, two militant warlords based in Pakistan’s
lawless northwestern areas, near the border with Afghanistan, had
threatened to kill her on her return.

One was Baitullah Mehsud, a top commander fighting the Pakistani
army in the tribal region of South Waziristan. He has close ties to al
Qaeda and the Afghan Taleban.

The other was Haji Omar, the “amir” or leader of the Pakistani
Taleban, who is also from South Waziristan and fought against the
Soviets with the Mujahideen in Afghanistan.

After that attack Ms Bhutto revealed that she had received a letter
signed by a person who claimed to be a friend of al Qaeda and Osama bin
Laden threatening to slaughter her like a goat.

She accused Pakistani authorities of not providing her with
sufficient security and hinted that they may have been complicit in the
bomb attack. Asif Ali Zardari, her husband, directly accused the ISI of
being involved in that attempt on her life.

Mrs Bhutto stopped short of blaming the Government directly, saying
that she had more to fear from unidentified members of a power
structure that she described as allies of the “forces of militancy”.

Analysts say that President Musharraf himself is unlikely to have
ordered her assassination, but that elements of the army and
intelligence service would have stood to lose money and power if she
had become Prime Minister.

The ISI, in particular, includes some Islamists who became
radicalised while running the American-funded campaign against the
Soviets in Afghanistan and remained fiercely opposed to Ms Bhutto on
principle.

Saudi Arabia, which has strong influence in Pakistan, is also
thought to frown on Ms Bhutto as being too secular and Westernised and
to favour Nawaz Sharif, another former Prime Minister.

From UK Times

The whole purpose of this article is to cast aspersions on
Musharraf. Things may have already passed the tipping point for this
country and the (UK) Times is doing everything it can to give it a big
push.

And why would the Pakistani government want her dead? In death she
is going to be a bigger hindrance to Musharraf’s rule than she ever
could have been in life. Now she and her corrupt past are all but
forgiven in many people’s minds. To even talk about it, implying her
motives were anything but pure, will get you some dirty stares and very
few will listen to what you have to say.

Musharraf has spent the last couple of months ensuring he will
retain his political power. He had it all set up; the judiciary was
chastened, the opposition’s politicians were neutered, basically
everything was set up so he would remain the leader of his country. So
why do something that would significantly destabilize your country and
put your authority in question? I don’t think he would do that.

I don’t think anyone who wants what is best for Pakistan would even
consider this. The people behind this most likely are not partisan
political nuts who don’t want her in power. The people behind this
attack are most likely those who want to see Pakistan devolve into a
country without a state. That leaves us with the terrorists.

Al Qaeda has stated in the past few months that they want to bring
down Pakistan’s government. What better way to do that then to kill the
West’s favorite opposition leader and have the West level the blame on
the leader of Pakistan? That would seem to be the best option for al
Qaeda or some other terrorist organization.

Pakistan is circling the drain right now. Anything that the Western
media does to undermine the Prime Minister will only help the
terrorists destroy our ally. If they have evidence that implicates the
Pakistani government, then everything changes and the media should
report it. But until they have real evidence implicating the Pakistanis
in this assassination the media should not recklessly implicate our
ally. Doing so would be playing into the hands of the terrorists. BigT