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Musharraf in heated denials over Bhutto
Beijing News.Net
Thursday 3rd January, 2008
Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf has angrily denied allegations that his government orchestrated the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
In a 90-minute session with foreign journalists, he said Ms Bhutto was repeatedly warned about threats from Islamic militants.
President Musharraf, in an emotional conference, said there was no cover-up of Bhutto's slaying and the Western press was unfairly labelling Pakistan as violent and unstable.
He assured the press members that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal was completely safe.
In response to a question about whether his government had blood on its hands in Bhutto's gun-suicide attack, he said: 'I'm not a feudal, I am not a tribal; I have been brought up in a very educated and civilized family, which believes in values, which believes in principles, which believes in character'.
'My family is not a family that believes in killing people, in assassinating, intriguing', he said, adding Islamic militants linked to the Taliban and Al Qaeda had attempted to kill him on several occasions.
He said: 'I am not a fraud. I am not a liar. Please understand Pakistan. It is a different country than your own'.
Musharraf spoke at length about Bhutto's government-provided security in the weeks leading up to her death, saying he and his administration had repeatedly warned her of suicide bomb plots.
The president said Bhutto had picked her own security detail leader and key officers from a list provided by the government.
On the day she was assassinated, he said, there were 1,000 policemen deployed around her.
In the aftermath of Bhutto's murder, government officials made contradictory statements about whether she had been shot or died after cracking her head on the sunroof of her security vehicle.
Rumours of a government cover-up after the blast site was immediately cleaned by fire hoses following the attack prompted Musharraf to invite British investigators from Scotland Yard to join the case.
He acknowledged it was wrong to scrub the crime scene before forensic work could be done, but denied that intelligence agencies had ordered local street cleaners to do so.
Pakistan has been reeling since Bhutto's death, which forced the country's national election commission to postpone crucial polls scheduled for next week until Feb 18th.
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Richard 2
01-03-08, 10:10 PM |
Musharraf in heated denials over Bhutto
Of course he had her killed.
She would have beaten him at the polls. HOwever, did he have her killed under orders from an outside force is the real question. Remember, it was a Pakistani who gave Iran nuclear secrets under the careful eyes of the Chinese. That dude (Khan what’s his name) was immediately pardoned. Musharrif is playing a game of survival by playing both the islamist and all moslems (may they all die horrible deaths) and the US and the money they pay hime to keep some semblance of order. THe us also does not want unrest in Pakistan. Even though Bhutto was the best leader that country has had in years and would have been a more honest broker with the US, she would have destabilized the country for a while. So at least 4 factions needed her gone. Musharrif, islamists, China, and US.
The world is never as simple as it seems.
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ChineseJew
01-03-08, 10:53 PM |
Musharraf is the usual suspect in this case. The allegation can never be cleared with the assassins dead. Look for the onces who are dead silent.
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Anonymous
01-04-08, 12:40 AM |
Irans hand behind middleast continued upheavel....Russia agrees middleast region is crazy....the world watches these lunatics daily...a totally hopeless region of nuts......like bad reruns on TV....BORING... Blutto was nuts to think she would not die.she had a death wish for history books..she wanted history book fame nothig else...
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well wisher
01-04-08, 01:07 AM |
kal yug
were this world is goin ,are we humans, is dis a good society. think ppl thkn
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Anonymous
01-04-08, 01:41 AM |
Before Bhutto died, she warned the people and the press that if she died they need look no further than the Pakistani government... and now the doctors who tried to save her life are being warned “stay silent or lose your life - or worse”... it all adds up...
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jack113
01-04-08, 03:51 PM |
I’m sure if the puppet leader of Pakistan didn’t have her murdered that he also didn’t do anything to prevent it. He had a lot of reasons to get her out of the way and has shown that he is nothing but a terrorist puppet of Bush anyway. What was the penalty for selling nuclear technology to Iran? he was pardoned by the decider saying “he has changed his ways and is now a good citizen." I believe the chimp still calls Lockerbe bomber his friend also.
The only way to win the war on terrorism is to get the terrorist supporters out of the American government as well as their terrorist puppets.
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Sammy
01-04-08, 04:30 AM |
The butler
The death of Benazir Bhutto will remain a mystery for years to come, but I think the butler did it.
So just look for the butler and you will have the killer.
For this reason the Pakistani government has called Scotland Yard to investigate this case, they are experts in catching butler killers.
Sammy
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WWD
01-04-08, 07:01 AM |
Pakistan
will survive,all factions will survive.This is the game of political factions in pakistan.Benazir was a threat to survival of certain factions in pakistan politics.She should not have been too much against any faction foes in her policies,that would have made her pro-peace/anti-no one/save with all factions/live to old age.
Living to old age is good,she should have stopped her unwise ways and just live happily in pakistan.This type of unwise politics that has brought untimely deaths of many past leaders worlwide in history.History repeats itself from those who do not learn/wise up with its lessons.
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