Benazir Bhutto assassinated

speechlesstx · Dec 27, 2007, 06:55 AM

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Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed Thursday in a suicide attack as she drove away from a campaign rally attended by thousands of supporters, aides said.

The attacker struck shortly after Bhutto addressed the crowd in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. There were conflicting accounts over the sequence of events. Rehman Malik, Bhutto's security adviser, said Bhutto was shot in the neck and chest by the attacker, who then blew himself up.

Party supporter Chaudry Mohammed Nazir said that two gunshots rang out when Bhutto's vehicle pulled into the main street and then there was a big blast next to her car.

But Javed Iqbal Cheema, spokesman for the Interior Ministry, told state-run Pakistan Television that Bhutto died when a suicide bomber struck her vehicle.

At least 20 others were killed in the blast, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.

Bhutto was rushed to the hospital and taken into emergency surgery.

"At 6:16 p.m. she expired," said Wasif Ali Khan, a member of Bhutto's party who was at Rawalpindi General Hospital.

What now for Pakistan?

speechlesstx · Jan 5, 2008, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by shygrneyzs

So... what you think about Hilary trying to align herself with Bhutto's legacy? I saw where she (Hilary) was interviewed and said glowing things about Bhutto and called her a friend and more.

Evita was just trying to take advantage of the situation, the latest in her continuing quest to "soften" her image, relate to women, expand her foreign policy resume...just another campaign moment.



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