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deminks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-11-08 09:03 PM
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Mysterious crowd suddenly stopped Bhutto's car, officer says
Source: McClatchy

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two new reports on the assassination last month of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto suggest that the killing may have been an ambitious plot rather than an isolated act of violence and that the government of President Pervez Musharraf knows far more than it's admitted about the murder.

A police officer who witnessed the assassination said that a mysterious crowd stopped Bhutto's car that day, moving her to emerge through the sunroof. And a document has surfaced in the Pakistani news media that contradicts the government's version of her death and contains details on the pistol and the suicide bomb used in the murder.

The witness was Ishtiaq Hussain Shah of the Rawalpindi police. As Bhutto's car headed onto Rawalpindi's Liaquat Road after an election rally Dec. 27, a crowd appeared from nowhere and stopped the motorcade, shouting slogans of her Pakistan Peoples Party and waving party banners, according to his account.

Bhutto, apparently thinking she was greeting her supporters, emerged through the sunroof of the bulletproof car to wave.

It was Shah's job to clear the way for the motorcade. But 10 feet from where he was standing, a man in the crowd wearing a jacket and sunglasses raised his arm and shot at the former prime minister. "I jumped to overpower him," the deputy police superintendent said later. "A mighty explosion took place soon afterwards."

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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-11-08 10:03 PM
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1. Needs a
:kick: for truth!
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cascadiance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-11-08 10:22 PM
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2. There are a lot of "unexplained" events/factors in this situation...
Apparently, Bhutto had wanted to call PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, who'd had supporters that were attacked on the same day...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2664453.cms

Also note that coincidentally on New Years Eve, the wife of Benazir Bhutto's cousin, Nahid Bhutto, who according to this link, was working on Benazir Bhutto's campaign, died along with three others in a car "accident" when they were returning from her funeral... Kind of suspicious, no?

http://www.regionaltimes.com/01jan2008/frontpage/threeincluding.php

My earlier thread on this when I first noticed it at the beginning of the year.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2569657

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TacticalPeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-11-08 10:23 PM
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3. Needs a
:kick: for truth!

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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-11-08 10:48 PM
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4. Dictator takes over country in a military coup
Country suddenly becomes a "democracy".
Dictator calls himself "President" to give himself "legitimacy".
Popular past president of country comes back to be welcomed by throngs of supporters.
Dictator and past president don't get along.
Past president killed by clean-shaven lone assassin.

Look over there! It's Al Qaeda!

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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-12-08 03:23 AM
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5. we here in the US
Wouldn't know about any mysterious mobs appearing, now would we?





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