Reply #13: She hand-picked the officer in charge of security, according to Musharraf [View All]

"Bhutto had been given four mobile police squads comprising 30 personnel led by an officer she had hand-picked, he said."
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080037645&ch=1/3/2008%2010:06:00%20PM

Unfortunately, she was "discouraged ... from hiring American or British private security firms" by "diplomats and security experts at the American Embassy":

"The State Department official said diplomats at the United States Embassy in Islamabad, including Ambassador Anne W. Patterson, were in daily contact with officials from Ms. Bhutto’s party. The Americans passed along information and specific advice on private security contractors to hire, counsel that Ms. Bhutto and her aides apparently spurned, the official said.

Diplomats and security experts at the American Embassy, for example, discouraged Ms. Bhutto from hiring American or British private security firms, fearing that a Western guard detail would draw too much attention to her and become a target.

Security officers at the embassy instead recommended the names of half a dozen Pakistani security companies that the United States and other Western countries had used to protect their personnel, the State Department official said. “The local companies employed guards who spoke the language and knew the landscape,” the official said.

But Ms. Bhutto and her husband rejected that suggestion, the official said, apparently fearing that even the reputable Pakistani firms might be infiltrated by extremists."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/world/asia/02inquiry.html