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2007-12-29 India-Pakistan
Baitullah dunnit
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Posted by Fred 2007-12-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
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#1 ...I call bullsh*t. Awfully convienient that they pick up this call almost immediately.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-12-29 00:04||   2007-12-29 00:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Does seem to suggest a certain efficiency that heretofore has been lacking in that country ...
Posted by Steve White">Steve White  2007-12-29 01:18||   2007-12-29 01:18|| Front Page Top

#3 They didn't once mention eggplant.
Posted by Seafarious 2007-12-29 01:28||   2007-12-29 01:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Baitullah dunnit

PLUS EXTRA, *Secretes*

Boyz and Girlz, the Olde Commies still hanging on inside the [Striking] HollyWeird Writers A$$ociation are so Damn Desperate for sum Agit-Prop work, that they've Rented Out Their #2 Pencils to the ISI and sold them dressed up portions of the olde Climatic Camelot Crumble to fit poor Benazir Bhutto's recent untimely ending.
Posted by RD">RD  2007-12-29 02:17||   2007-12-29 02:17|| Front Page Top

#5 olde Climatic Camelot Crumble
Damn, Go dawg go!
Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-12-29 06:18||   2007-12-29 06:18|| Front Page Top

#6 I wonder if they also have the local fire department hose down the radio intercept tapes....
Posted by john frum 2007-12-29 06:42||   2007-12-29 06:42|| Front Page Top

#7 A top aide to slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Friday rejected the government’s explanation of her death as a “pack of lies”.

The Pakistan interior ministry said Ms Bhutto died when she hit her head on her vehicle’s sunroof as she ducked after a gun and suicide attack on a campaign rally, and that no bullets or shrapnel were found in her.

“It is baseless. It is a pack of lies,” Farooq Naik, Ms Bhutto’s top lawyer and a senior official in her Pakistan People’s Party, told AFP.

“Two bullets hit her, one in the abdomen and one in the head,” Mr Naik said. “Bhutto’s personal secretary Naheed Khan and party official Makhdoom Amin Fahim were in the car and they saw what happened,” he said.

“It is an irreparable loss and they are turning it into a joke with such claims. The country is heading towards civil war.” Interior ministry spokesman Javed Cheema said earlier that the post-mortem on the populist opposition leader found her mortal wound came when she tried to duck after the bomber attacked.

“The government is now claiming that Baitullah Mehsud is responsible,” Mr Naik told AFP. “What is the evidence?”

He added: “She was taken to hospital. She was bleeding. It was a serious security lapse.”—AFP
Posted by john frum 2007-12-29 06:56||   2007-12-29 06:56|| Front Page Top

#8 top aide who helped bathe Benazir Bhutto's body after her death said it was clear that the former Pakistani prime minister suffered bullet wounds to her head, contrary to a government report that she died because she hit her head on a sunroof lever.

Pakistan People's Party information secretary Sherry Rehman, who was riding in the car behind Benazir's when it was attacked, called the government's conclusion that Benazir was not shot "the most bizarre, dangerous nonsense."

"It's beginning to look like a cover up to me," Rehman said in a CNN interview.

Rehman said Benazir was hemorrhaging on the way to the hospital and that the two cars used to get her there were blood-soaked.

"There were clear bullet injuries to her head," said Rehman. "When we bathed her we saw that."
Posted by john frum 2007-12-29 07:12||   2007-12-29 07:12|| Front Page Top

#9 






Posted by john frum 2007-12-29 07:14||   2007-12-29 07:14|| Front Page Top

#10 In a new twist to the killing of former premier Benazir Bhutto, the Taliban commander blamed by the Pakistan government for masterminding the assassination on Saturday denied any involvement in the attack.

Maulvi Muhammad Omar, a spokesman for Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud, told reporters in Peshawar on phone from an undisclosed location that the government was trying to implicate Mehsud to cover up its "failure" to provide security to Bhutto.

"We are sad over Benazir Bhutto's death. We do not have any enmity with Pakistani leaders and are only opposed to the US," Omar said and described the government's claims about Mehsud's involvement in the suicide attack as "propaganda".

Mehsud was recently chosen as chief of the Tehrik Taliban-e-Pakistan, a coalition of pro-Taliban groups from Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas.

Maulvi Omar said it was against tribal culture and traditions to attack a woman.

Omar also said a transcript released by the interior ministry of a purported conversation in which Mehsud apparently congratulated another person for the attack on Bhutto was "fabricated".

"Mehsud never congratulated anyone for the killing of Benazir Bhutto," he said
Posted by john frum 2007-12-29 07:24||   2007-12-29 07:24|| Front Page Top

#11 I vote RD as most likely successor to Joseph Mendiola.

Damn. And I've tried, and failed, to imitiate Army Man's KCNA dispatces without success. Meh, some guys are unreplaceable.
Posted by Ptah">Ptah  2007-12-29 08:11|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]  2007-12-29 08:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Been on travel. What happened to Joe Mendiola?

Is he in Pakistan?
Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back!  2007-12-29 09:06||   2007-12-29 09:06|| Front Page Top

#13 The plot thickens, talibunnies in denial, further 'evidence' of skull fracture (even after the shooter video has been released). Curiouser and curioser....
Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-12-29 10:23||   2007-12-29 10:23|| Front Page Top

#14 Who knows who did it?
I'd take no chances and shoot everybody...
Posted by tu3031 2007-12-29 11:12||   2007-12-29 11:12|| Front Page Top

#15 Up to and including the manufacturer of the door handle.

Posted by Seafarious 2007-12-29 11:27||   2007-12-29 11:27|| Front Page Top

#16 Our beloved JosephM is safely on Guam, Jack. He posted today on some of the other threads. Oh, and welcome home!
Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife  2007-12-29 11:29||   2007-12-29 11:29|| Front Page Top

#17 Joe's fine, although there *was* an eggnog incident over Christmas...
Posted by Seafarious 2007-12-29 11:37||   2007-12-29 11:37|| Front Page Top

#18 Those images are like no xray I've ever seen, especially the second one.

She could have been shot in the head and whacked by the handle as she dropped, possibly assisted by the subsequent explosion. If she was shot in the abdomen, then there should be at least one bullet hole in the vehicle. Or shrapnel penetration.
Posted by KBK 2007-12-29 12:03||   2007-12-29 12:03|| Front Page Top

#19 I believe the 2nd photo is of Nancy Pelosi's brain and it's inner workings.
Posted by Slappy 2007-12-29 12:33||   2007-12-29 12:33|| Front Page Top

#20 Those are not X-ray images.

The first might be a photocopy of an X-ray. The second might be a photograph (with flash reflection) of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of an X-ray.

But neither of those are X-rays. That simple.
Posted by Steve White">Steve White  2007-12-29 12:47||   2007-12-29 12:47|| Front Page Top

#21 This whole thing is starting to smell like the Benino Aquino murder under Marcos.
Posted by Gabby Cussworth 2007-12-29 13:19||   2007-12-29 13:19|| Front Page Top

#22 Steve, that makes sense.
Posted by KBK 2007-12-29 14:23||   2007-12-29 14:23|| Front Page Top

#23 Looks like I was right about a seperate shooter and boomer. And it looks like the shooter got away.
Posted by phil_b 2007-12-29 16:05||   2007-12-29 16:05|| Front Page Top

#24 You can clearly see the shooter firing the pistol 3 times from BB rear left in this video

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6be_1198938194
Posted by Woozle Uneath8763 2007-12-29 16:20|| http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6be_1198938194]">[http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6be_1198938194]  2007-12-29 16:20|| Front Page Top

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