Ishtiaq Hussain Shah, DSP city circle, sustained injuries when a suicide bomber blew himself up near Benazir Bhutto’s car on 27 December. The DSP said he got worried when he saw the walkthrough gates were not working due to power breakdown, as he feared people would get inside without security check. He said he immediately called the Rawalpindi Electricity Supply authorities and requested them to restore the power supply. Shah said, later he informed Mrs Nahid Khan [Bhutto's political secretary] and sought her help for talking to somebody and get the power supply restored. The DSP said a man in sunglasses standing about 8-10 feet from Benazir Bhutto’s car was shooting at her with a pistol. Shah said as he jumped on the shooter, and then an explosion shook the area.

http://www.individual.com/story.php?story=75797050

If this policeman survived the blast it is unlikely that the shooter was the bomber.

It is also possible that the shooter survived as well.

There is some discussion upthread about the likelihood of the bomber and the shooter being two different people.

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?rep=2&aid=417158&sid=SAS

“Pakistan’s investigation agencies” claim to have identified the shooter.

Having identified the chap using the “National Database and Registration Authority” (whatever that is were able to inform the “investigation authorities” where the suspect lived (in Swabi).

The police rushed there and arrested some folks at the suspect’s home.

So far, so Sun Hill.

But here’s the weird bit. The police fear “that the suspect died in the explosion that took place after he fired shots at Benazir”.

In other words, the police would have the world believe that Pakistan’s “National Database and Registration Authority” were able to name this individual without having any access to the body of the shooter.

Either the shooter is dead and the authorities have the body, or the shooter got away but the “National Database and Registration Authority” was still able to name him and point the police to where he lived.

Someone is telling some more whopper lies.

And the story doesn’t get any less weird.

This happened in what amounts to the Pakistani version of West Point. And they then hosed all the evidence away with firehoses.

Of course the Pakistani government killed her. Thats got to be the assumption until they prove themselves innocent. The Pakistanis are a terrorist regime.

Of course, they cannot resist a story that features a handgun.

Now it appears the black 9mm I saw in the photo, the gun seen in the videos, and the gun in the custody of the police are all the same 9mm black handgun.

The police handgun found at the crime scene … has been identified as a 9mm – Steyr M9 ..

Now guess who uses the Steyr M 9X19mm handgun exclusively – the Pakistani army – special forces division.

That may be the reason why Musharraf just wants the whole incident of Bhutto’s assassination to just disappear and go away. Because the gun used was issued to a member of the Generalissimo’s military.

http://www.winterpatriot.blogspot.com/

Oh dear, the Crusade struggle for democracy has to be put on hold.

The handle story was so ridiculous it makes you wonder why the govt bothered.

If her widower really wants to clear up the issue of her death why doesn’t he allow an exhumation. I think using Benazir’s mystique for political advantage probably explains this behaviour. Although, don’t forget that the body can be exhumed at any time before the election.

I know it’s macabre, but Benazir’s body could be the PPP’s ace in the hole, so to speak.

The latest video shown on TV news Friday 4th Jan, is taken with the much-vaunted sunroof handle in prominent view, and Benazir ducks or falls down below it BEFORE the bomb blast, so she can’t have hit her head on it (fatally) as claimed by a Pakistani Govt fantasist.

Today (5th Jan) newspeper report says Benazir’s husband took his own video of her woulds before she was buried.

But recent reports also said leaders of huge Bhutto clan have
* queried authenticity of her (political) will
* objected to her husband assuming power in PPP
* queried her son’s position too

I had assumed her family was a small group assuming dynastic power [as in Kennedy clan in USA or Kim Il Jung/Kim Song Il in North Korea]. As anti-democratic as that would be, it seems the position may be much more complicated….

I have to say I know four-fifths of zero, about Pakistan.

cheerio

My list was for President OR G-G, whichever we have. I don’t think the current situation is either untenable or unstable. Reserve powers have been used rarely. In the end it’s down to the judgement of one woman (final arbiter), be she President or G-G. Every game needs a final referee, if the participants are deadlocked. I don’t mean to demean politics by calling it a game. Every contest needs rules. Yes: I’m a petit bourgeois. As aree my fellow citizens, by and large.

But that’s no different to a final Court of Appeal in the Law, I thnk. At some stage you may need a final arbiter. In 1975 the dismissal was followed by a general election, so we voters had our say. No putsch, no High Court challenge, no troops on the streets, no assassinations; just an election. Sorry if this sounds smug, but I think empirical observations are germane.

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