Musharraf Rejects U.N. Inquiry on Bhutto

Source: NYT/Reuters

By REUTERS
Published: January 12, 2008

PARIS (Reuters) - Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf ruled out a U.N. inquiry into the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, as demanded by her party, saying that Pakistan should not be compared to Lebanon.

"It is not possible. Is another country involved?" he said in an interview with Le Figaro newspaper published on its Web site on Friday. "Pakistan is not Lebanon."

Bhutto's party has called for a U.N. inquiry into her death comparable to one into the 2005 killing of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, whose death was blamed by many Lebanese on Syria. Damascus denies involvement.

Musharraf said Pakistan had its own institutions to manage the inquiry into Bhutto's assassination, and noted they would also be helped by British police....

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Musharraf should start complying, he's been making people suspicious ever since this happened.

Muslim fanatics, who hate women, were responsible. The policeman in charge of clearing the streets has now stated that an alleged Bhutto-supporting crowd appeared suddenly out of nowhere (after he had secured the way) and just magically happened to materialize just where the gunman and the suicide bomber (now in heaven with the virgins surrounding his foolish body)were situated. Oh, sure, some supporters. Before the policeman could clear them she was struck.

or is he suggesting another country closer to his own is responsible for killing pro western politicians?

"It is not possible. Is another country involved?" he said in an interview with Le Figaro newspaper published on its Web site on Friday. "Pakistan is not Lebanon."

The Pakistani government has offered to exhume her body and conduct an
autopsy, but Bhutto's family says it will only agree if Musharraf allows
a UN-led inquiry into the murder, which he has ruled out.

"There cannot be a UN investigation," Musharraf told Newsweek.
"There are not two or three countries involved. Why should there
be a UN investigation? This is ridiculous."


"Yes, exhume it. A hundred percent. I would like it to be exhumed," he told Newsweek.

....
BLITZER: But there is a fear that if you lose President Musharraf, who might come in
his place, it could be so much worse. The jihadists and Islamist fundamentalists with
a nuclear bomb, because Pakistan is a nuclear power.

BLACK: That's, in essence, the problem. On the one hand, we can threaten
withholding aid. On the other, if we push too hard, it is possible that
his regime could be challenged. And the alternative for the United States, western
interests, global war on terrorism would certainly be worse by virtually any replacement.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/01/sitroom.02.html

I was gone the week Bhutto was assassinated, but I wondered whether anyone was connecting the dots back to Musharraf. He had the most to gain from her death, after all.

Heh. Ironically, it will be us that will block the UN investigation, much as we blocked intervention in Lebanon while Israel was test running our invasion plans for Iran there.

Our PR people are really letting our image as "The light of the world" get s***canned.