Over the past few days, I’ve been keeping on eye on the developments in Pakistan with the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of that country (1988-1990 and 1993-1996). Both times the president fired her for allegations of corruption.
Eventually, she exiled herself from the country for 8 years, and in October, returned. Her entrance back into the country, however, was met with an assassination attempt, killing 136 people in the process, but, miraculously, she was spared.
Since then, she has blamed the current sitting president, Pervez Musharraf, for not doing enough to ensure her security. On Wednesday, after leaving a rally, shots were fired at her vehicle and a bomb on a nearby motorcycle exploded. Today, however, more information was released as to how she died.
It wasn’t the gunshots (all 3 missed her). It wasn’t the bomb (directly, at least). Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto killed herself when she ducked back inside the sunroof she was standing through and hit her head on one of the latches for the sunroof. Apparently, the force of hitting that latch was enough to fracture her skull.
Man knows not his time- nor the means.
That’s an interesting twist to what some of the media is saying…It’s funny how they let some of those minor details slip past them!
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/28/clinton.obama/index.html
Its sad that Obama “politicized” this whole thing. Then Hillary makes it worse by openly calling him out on it and politicizing that.
CNN had an entire article detailing responses and quotes from each candidate, separating them by party lines. It seems, however, that that article has been pulled.
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Hm, reminds me of the monk Rasputin’s death…
The “ducked back inside the sunroof” link says
“The opposition leader’s family — her husband Asif Ali Zardari and three children — accompanied the body…”
I checked Both Zardari and Bhutto are in the “Pakistan Peoples Party” so they can’t be the “opposition.” Does opposition mean they’re opposing the other parties or the terrorists involved in the attacks?
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Lol, well that link did point to the right page…
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