Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Bhutto: two assassination plots?

Benazir Bhutto had no shortage of enemies. The strange nature of the assassination attempt(s) that succeeded suggest to me that there may have been two separate plots, either of which might have succeeded, at least one of which certainly did.

Look at this video. "Look, these are the three shots fired, and this is then the blast."



There is a gunman wearing sunglasses who shoots her, and a suicide bomber who then blows everyone up. Were their plots even related? Possibly but I doubt it. The MOs are too different. But maybe the bomber was just covering for the gunman. The whole thing should be investigated by some neutral body, whether Pakistani or international.

Meanwhile let's not forget that Pakistani Islamists blew up a suicide bomb and killed at least 48 people who were praying in a mosque on the Id festival. I don't usually make claims about who are really Muslims (I'll leave it to Muslims to argue about that) but I'll make an exception in this case. If praying in a mosque on the Id day is unbelief, what is Islam? These maniac Islamists cannot claim to be Muslims any more.

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