Shining Light In Dark CornersShining Light In Dark CornersI came to understand that I am not the light or the source of light. But light -- truth, understanding, knowledge -- is there, and it will only shine in many dark places if I reflect it. Comments about the news by a pragmatic progressive realist. Articles
Journalist's Daughter Falsely Accused of Contacting Al Qaeda
2008-01-28 16:37:00 Wonder why FISA disarming is bad? Why would Obama and Clinton return to Washington to vote against renewal? CQ U.S. intelligence tapped the telephone calls of Lawrence Wright, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, starting in 2002. [..]One of his intelligence sources had revealed to him that he had ?read a summary of a telephone conversation that I had from my home with a source in Egypt.? McConnell said the eavesdropping must have been triggered by getting a call ?from some telephone number that?s associated with some known outfit.? The journalist, however, had originated the call. What happened next bears repeating, not just because it has gone largely unreported, but because it?s the kind of encounter many more Americans can expect if they end up as a target of our distressingly sloppy ? some would say incompetent ? counterterrorism agencies, if Congress extends a law (PL 110-55) enacted last August, that expanded the government?s electronic surveillance a... More About: Privacy , Al Qaeda , Daughter , Al-Qaeda , Qaeda
Lebanese Army on Alert in Beirut
2008-01-28 15:20:00 Monsters and Critics The Lebanese army was on high alert in the capital Beirut on Monday a day after power cuts protests turned into clashes between opposition followers and the Lebanese army, leaving nine people dead and raising fears of an upcoming civil strife. Troops were out in force, setting up checkpoints along roads leading from the mainly Shiite neighbourhoods of southern Beirut, a hotbed of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, to Christian areas of the capital. The scene reminded many Lebanese of the beginning of the 1975-1990 civil war as the first line of demarcation at the time was in the same area. 'This is the same scene we saw in 1975 when the civil war broke out in the streets of Beirut, this is a dangerous reminder,' commented one Christian resident of Ain Roumneh, the area that witnessed heavy violence on Sunday. 'The country is now opened on all options...the situation is taking a downturn,' said analyst Nabil Haythem. Nine people were killed in Sund... More About: Lebanon , Army , Alert
A President Like My Father/Brother; Kennedy Clan Endorses Obama
2008-01-27 23:33:00 Senator Edward M. Kennedy will endorse Senator Barack Obama for President during a rally on Monday in Washington. After securing an endorsement from Senator John Kerry and a commanding win in the contentious South Carolina primary on Saturday, Obama gathers momentum in his campaign for the nomination. The Massachusetts senator had vowed to stay out of the presidential nominating fight, but as the contest expanded into a state-by-state fight ? and given the tone of the race in the last week ? associates said he was moved to announce his support for Mr. Obama. On top of that, Caroline Kennedy writes a highly emotional and personal Op-Ed today also endorsing Obama. If this keeps up, the Obama campaign could become a runaway freight train. New York Times I want a president who understands that his responsibility is to articulate a vision and encourage others to achieve it; who holds himself, and those around him, to the highest ethical standards; who appeals to the hopes of those w... More About: Election , Father
Violence Erupts on Gaza Border with Egypt
2008-01-25 15:19:00 Al Jazeera English Violence has erupted at the Rafah border after Cairo announced it would close the crossing between Gaza and Egypt . Al Jazeera correspondent David Chater said the Egyptian government had ordered guards to close the Rafah border by 13:00 GMT on Friday. Stones were hurled at Egyptian guards by Palestinians after they raised batons and shields and formed a human wall close to one of three crossings. Witnesses said guards then beat some Palestinians with clubs and fired several shots in the air. Egyptian forces began placing barbed wire near the collapsed steel wall earlier in the day and began stopping Palestinians from entering Egypt. [..]He said: "The government took heavy criticism from the West over the border opening. The United States congress has already suspended $100 million of aid to Egypt due to the border breach." More About: Palestine
Us Ready To Send Troops To Pakistan
2008-01-25 15:14:00 Consistently, US news outlets ignore the "bad" news from the world. Al Jazeera English Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, has said the United States is prepared to send troops to Pakistan to fight alongside the country's forces against Islamic fighters. "We remain ready, willing and able to assist the Pakistanis and to partner with them, to provide additional training, to conduct joint operations, should they desire to do so," Gates said on Thursday. He also made it clear that his country was open to providing more direct assistance. Asked if he envisaged US combat troops and Pakistani forces operating together, Gates said: "If the Pakistanis wanted to do that, I think we would." Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder, reporting from Islamabad, said Gates's suggestion would anger most Pakistanis. He said : "The Pakistani people believe that it is only their armed forces that are able to handle the continued violence in the tribal region. Musharraf himself said that if foreign inte... More About: Troops , Send , Ready
Good News for Afghanistan is Bad News for Pakistan
2008-01-24 19:31:00 csmonitor.com The Taliban are unlikely to launch a spring offensive in Afghanistan this year because all their energies will be focused in Pakistan , United States military officials said. But as that battle heats up, US officials added that they do not have enough intelligence on the ground in Pakistan. Taliban and Al Qaeda militants have killed more than 600 people in Pakistan in recent months, making 2007 the deadliest year for militancy in Pakistan. Although Pakistan's military has 100,000 troops stationed along the border of Afghanistan, violent extremism has spread inland to large cities like Lahore, where a suicide bomber killed 25 policemen in early January. Pakistan's government and the CIA have also blamed Taliban militants, working with Al Qaeda, for the assassination in late December of Benazir Bhutto. The deteriorating security makes Pakistan more of a viable target for the Taliban, US officials told the Associated Press. Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and other militants are ... More About: News , Good News , Bad News
Gaza: Warsaw Ghetto Redux?
2008-01-24 02:41:00 Comment to "The PR War in Gaza " | Newsweek.com The Nazi's created the infamous Warsaw Ghetto , now the Holocaust survivors have created this humanitarian nightmare in the The Gaza Strip. Aryan supremacy and Jewish supremacy .are more similar than different. The USA should disassociate, disengage and divest from the apartheid Jewish colonial enterprise. More About: Palestine
Many in Gaza Without Clean Water, Surrounded by Raw Sewage
2008-01-23 15:15:00 AKI - Adnkronos international International humanitarian groups are predicting a worsening crisis in the Gaza Strip despite a pledge by an Israeli minister late Monday to resume sending fuel supplies to the territory. Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak promised to allow medical supplies as well as diesel fuel to be shipped to the Gaza Strip for essential power supplies from Tuesday. But organisations including the United Nations relief agency warned of a worsening crisis while the area remained without power, heat or light. Amid predictions that more than a million people would soon be without safe drinking water, there were reports of raw sewage spilling into the streets because there was no electricity to fuel the local pump station. The Gaza power plant shut down its two working turbines on Sunday, leaving much of Gaza in darkness, after Israel closed border crossings on Friday. Hospitals dependent on vital diesel supplies were also predicting that they would run out of fu... More About: Palestine , Clean , Water
Voices Are Raised in Democratic Debate
2008-01-22 16:02:00 Any hope for a Hillary-Obama ticket seem remote today as the stup became personal last night. Both candidates implied the other was a liar, a hidden closet capitalist and other unrepeatable comments. They seem to be determined to take each other out at the knees. Edwards is said to have won the debate by staying out of the fray and admonishing the candidates to get back to the issues of the disenfranchised. But without any wins his campaign struggles to avoid "beautiful loser" status by being the hardest working candidate. Meanwhile, his populist message, "issues of poverty and justice are going to be talked about in a way, and with a passion, that hasn't been seen in mainstream politics for decades." Thank you John Edwards. More About: Democratic , Debate , Election
On MLK Day: Obama Addresses Homophobia, Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia Among
2008-01-21 18:57:00 Here Obama speaks with conviction and a level of honesty uncommon among politicians. Perhaps this guy is what he says he is: a uniter. Perhaps we shall see. The New York Observer Unfortunately, all too often when we talk about unity in this country, we?ve come to believe that it can be purchased on the cheap. We?ve come to believe that racial reconciliation can come easily ? that it?s just a matter of a few ignorant people trapped in the prejudices of the past, and that if the demagogues and those who exploit our racial divisions will simply go away, then all our problems would be solved. All too often, we seek to ignore the profound institutional barriers that stand in the way of ensuring opportunity for all children, or decent jobs for all people, or health care for those who are sick. We long for unity, but are unwilling to pay the price. But of course, true unity cannot be so easily won. It starts with a change in attitudes ? a broadening of our minds, and a broadening of ou... More About: Election , Discrimination , Anti-Semitism , Anti
FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft
2008-01-21 15:34:00 Hey, Murdock can't be all bad. His newspaper in London, often used as a disinformation leaker for US intelligence, has a real story today. Today, I got more information on Sibel Edmund than in any US news source. I'm guessing that what Sibel tripped over was the Bush Administration, via the Turkish ambassador and the No 3 man in the State Department, leaking nuclear secrets to Turkey to counter Iran 's nuclear ambitions. It seems that Bush is in the business of nuclear proliferation to India, and now to Turkey?? Worse yet, Turkish intelligence has a cozy relationship with Pakistani intelligence. Now doesn't that sound reassuring?? Hat tip to The Brad Blog. Times Online THE FBI has been accused of covering up a key case file detailing evidence against corrupt government officials and their dealings with a network stealing nuclear secrets. The assertion follows allegations made in The Sunday Times two weeks ago by Sibel Edmonds, an FBI whistleblower, who worked on the age... More About: Nuclear , File , Freedom of Speech
Who's to Blame For the Recession?
2008-01-20 03:09:00 New York Times - PAUL KRUGMAN In other words, the United States was not, in fact, uniquely well-suited to make use of the world?s surplus funds. It was, instead, a place where large sums could be and were invested very badly. Directly or indirectly, capital flowing into America from global investors ended up financing a housing-and-credit bubble that has now burst, with painful consequences. As I said, these consequences probably won?t be as bad as the devastating recessions that racked third-world victims of the same syndrome. The saving grace of America?s situation is that our foreign debts are in our own currency. This means that we won?t have the kind of financial death spiral Argentina experienced, in which a falling peso caused the country?s debts, which were in dollars, to balloon in value relative to domestic assets. But even without those currency effects, the next year or two could be quite unpleasant. What should have been done differently? Some critics say that the F... More About: Economics , Recession , Blame
Remaking the Middle East: The New Cold War
2008-01-18 19:26:00 The Neocon dream is for the US to dominate the word. Dubya has damaged beyond repair attempts to influence Central Asia and the Middle East by persuasion and supporting human dignity. Zbigniew Brzezinski advocated such an approach. In his book The Grand Chessboard he explains the foreign policy imperative of first Great Britain, and now the United States to dominate the work through control of Eurasia. Ever since the continents started interacting politically, some five hundred years ago, Eurasia has been the center of world power.- (p. xiii) ... But in the meantime, it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America. The formulation of a comprehensive and integrated Eurasian geostrategy is therefore the purpose of this book. (p. xiv) In that context, how America 'manages' Eurasia is critical. A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world's three most advanced and economically productive region... More About: Iran , The Middle East , Cold War , Cold
Too Many Questions in the New Hampshire Vote
2008-01-17 19:30:00 The BRAD BLOG Voting Rights attorney John Bonifaz, legal director of Vote rAction.org, was on the scene today, and just told me that he has great concerns about the transparency of both the initial election and the hand-count auditing process that got under way in earnest today. "I'm very concerned that this is not a fully transparent process that is happening there," he told me. The sensitive memory cards containing the programming and tabulation from the Diebold optical-scanners are apparently "missing in action" for the moment. Those cards, as viewers of HBO's Hacking Democracy know by now, may be used to hack an election, such that only a proper hand-count of the paper ballots afterwards will reveal the hack. (See the video of that hack for yourself right here. The same exact machine being hacked in that film was used across the state to count 80% of the ballots in NH in last week's primary.) And yet, says Bonifaz who spent time today speaking with New Hampshire Secretary o... More About: Questions , Election
Bush's Peace in Palestine: Israeli Rocket Attack
2008-01-16 19:17:00 There is no coincident. Within hours of Bush's trip to the Middle East to push his "peace" process, Israel rockets and tanks attack Gaza. Bush's trip wasn't about peace, it was about preparations for another war, with Iran . The Daily Star Israeli troops killed 19 Palestinians on Tuesday, including three civilians and the son of a former Palestinian foreign minister, as fighting erupted across the Gaza Strip a day after the start of key Middle East peace talks. The deadliest single day of violence in more than a year saw the son of former Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar, a senior Hamas official, killed. Also, during the bombardment in Gaza, a civilian just inside Israel was shot dead in a rare sniper attack. The fighting broke out a day after top Israeli and Palestinian negotiators began talks on core issues of the conflict, hot on the heels of US President George W. Bush's visit and prediction of a signed peace treaty within a year. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas brande... More About: Peace , Palestine , Saudi Arabia , Rocket
Ayatollah Huckabee Condemns US Constitution with new Fatwa
2008-01-16 05:29:00 Informed Comment Mike Huckabee says he wants to amend the US constitution to bring it into line with the divinely revealed law of the living God: "I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution . But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that's what we need to do -- to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view." More About: Christian Right , Election , Fatwa
Musharraf?s Last Stand
2008-01-14 14:44:00 Newsweek.com By clinging to power, the president is making Pakistan fight the wrong battle?against him, rather than the extremists destabilizing the nuclear-armed nation. Pakistan worries everyone. Commentators talk of rising instability and national peril. Proliferation experts like Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, warn that the country's nuclear weapons could fall into the wrong hands. Presidential contenders threaten to get tough with Islamabad. And to add urgency to these discussions come periodic terror attacks, including one last Thursday, outside the Lahore High Court, that killed 19 policemen and bystanders. In the past year Pakistan has suffered its worst violence since the riots that followed its founding in 1947. And in the past six months it has careered from one political and constitutional crisis to another, none of which has been resolved, or is likely to be resolved by parliamentary elections scheduled for Feb. 18. . . . In f... More About: Musharraf , Stand
Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007
2008-01-13 03:11:00 Clearly, we have to watch Democrats as well as Republican about retaining our Civil Liberties . The House, in a wave of paranoia, passed a law against promulgating any "extremist ideology" on the internet or other means. Homeland Security gets to decide what is extremist. Here is the voting breakdown. Click on the link to see where your Representative voted. GovTrack: H.R. 1955) Totals & Party BreakdownTotalDemocratRepublicanIndepende ntAyes:404(94%)2191850Nays:6(1%)330No Vote:22(5%)10120Required: 2/3 of 410 votes (274) The ACLU Blog doesn't sound too shrill at this point since they have the Senate and the Conference process to intervene. Clearly my (MN) House delegation didn't understand what they were voting on. Internet censorship also was spurred on under the false illusion of making us safer from terrorists. H.R. 1955, a bill creating a seemingly innocuous commission to study so-called "homegrown terrorism," contained several troubling provisions. Instead of focus... More About: Terrorism , Prevention , Violent , Radicalization
Kucinich Calls for a Recount in New Hampshire
2008-01-11 19:44:00 The BRAD BLOG Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich , the most outspoken advocate in the Presidential field and in Congress for election integrity, paper-ballot elections, and campaign finance reform, has sent a letter to the New Hampshire Secretary of State asking for a recount of Tuesday?s election because of ?unexplained disparities between hand-counted ballots and machine-counted ballots.? This man is not just crying wolf or grabbing headlines. There is very good reasons to want to check the accuracy of the count. Obama-Clinton: remarkable opscan v. handcount results Analysts at the Election Defense Alliance (EDA) have confirmed that based on the official results on the New Hampshire Secretary of state web site, there is a remarkable relationship between Obama and Clinton votes, when you look at votes tabulated by op-scan v. votes tabulated by hand: Clinton Optical scan 91,717 52.95% Obama Optical scan 81,495 47.05% Clinton Hand-counted 20,889 47.05% Obama Hand-c... More About: Calls
Business Interests Fear an Edwards Presidency
2008-01-11 19:00:00 The Guardian Ask corporate lobbyists which presidential contender is most feared by their clients and the answer is almost always the same -- Democrat John Edwards . The former North Carolina senator's chosen profession alone raises the hackles of business people. Before entering politics, he made a fortune as a trial lawyer. In litigious America, trial lawyers bring lawsuits against companies on behalf of aggrieved individuals and sometimes win multimillion-dollar settlements. Edwards won several. But beyond his profession, Edwards' tone and language on the campaign trail have increased business antipathy toward him. His stump speeches are peppered with attacks on "corporate greed" and warnings of "the destruction of the middle class." He accuses lobbyists of "corrupting the government" and says Americans lack universal health care because of "drug companies, insurance companies and their lobbyists." Despite not winning the two state nominating contests completed so far, with ... More About: Business , Election , Fear , Interests
151,000 Iraqis killed since U.S.-led invasion-WHO
2008-01-10 14:49:00 Reuters About 151,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the three years following the U.S.-led invasion of their country, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) research published on Wednesday. The new study, which said violent deaths could have ranged from 104,000 to 223,000 between March 2003 and June 2006, is the most comprehensive since the war started. But Juan Cole says it's 250,000 A new World Health Organization study estimates the excess numbers of civilians killed in violence in Iraq from April 2003 through June 2006 at between 101,000 and 224,000. They settled on 151,000 or so as the most likely number. This number is an estimate of how many people died of violence beyond what you would have expected from the 2001-2002 baseline. Violent deaths increased 17 times over once the Bush administration invaded the country. As I read the AP article, the study actually found more like 302,000 excess deaths, but only attributed 151,000 to violence. It seems to me possible t... More About: Invasion , Killed
A Health Care System to Die For
2008-01-10 01:41:00 Remember the right wingnut warnings about "socialized medicine" when Hillary was pushing for health care reform in the first Clinton Administration? Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog Giuliani: You have got to see the trap. Otherwise we are in for a disaster. We are in for Canadian health care, French health care, British health care. The numbers don't lie. More About: Health , Republicans , System , Health Care , Healthcare
Hillary Eeks Out A Win From the Obama Freight Train
2008-01-09 19:23:00 Hillary is appropriately relieved after a week that was all Obama . Recognizing she has to change her tactics, she has reached towards the center and progressive wing of the Democratic Party by adopting Edward's populist themes. I think she will find that to be the only way to slow or stop the Obama freight train. Or perhaps there was something like the "Bradley Effect" going on in New Hampshire. White voters may not admit publicly to pollsters and caucus goers that they are prejudiced, but act on it behind the election curtain. AlterNet In her victory speech last night, Hillary Clinton probably nailed the underlying reason for her remarkable comeback in New Hampshire. In the last three days, Clinton had changed her pattern, spending far more time taking questions and comments and less time delivering the same old stump speech. "I listened to you," she told the voters of New Hampshire, "and in the process, I found my own voice." "Too many have been invisible for too long; you'... More About: Democrats , Train , Election , Hillary
Justice Department has "No Comment" on Halliburton/KBR Rape Case
2008-01-09 15:12:00 Jamie Leigh Jones has had no justice since alleging rape by her Halliburton -KBR co-workers. She says Army doctors turned the results of her "rape kit" to Halliburton-KBR security officials in Baghdad. Not surprisingly, the evidence disappeared. There have been many alleged rapes in a Halliburton-KBR atmosphere of "rampant sexual harassment", but only Jones has had the courage to go public to force an investigation. AlterNet Last month, after ABC News reported that former Halliburton/KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones had been gang-raped by her co-workers while working in Baghdad, multiple lawmakers -- including Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) -- pressed the Bush administration to reveal the state of the case and to explain how an earlier investigation "had not resulted in any prosecution." The Bush administration has been anything but cooperative. Both the State and Justice departments refused to give Poe "answers on the status" of the inv... More About: Justice Department , Department , Case
Bhutto?s Assassination: Who Gains?
2008-01-07 02:58:00 Despite all the news that says that both the US and Musharraf are hurt by the Bhutto assassination, there is good reason to believe that she was killed by someone in the military government. Now whether the cover-up was exposed by an opponent of Musharraf, one wonders how anyone could have made such a mess guaranteed to lose credibility. From GlobalResearch.ca, here is a non-mainstream view of what happened. Informed intelligence sources say there was a cynical deal cut behind the scenes between Washington and Musharraf. Musharraf is known to be Cheney?s preferred partner and Cheney we are told is the sole person running US-Pakistan policy today. Were Musharraf to agree to stationing of US Special Forces inside Pakistan, ?Plan B?, the democratic farce with Bhutto could be put aside, in favor of the continued Musharraf sole rule. Washington would ?turn a blind eye.? On Dec. 28, one day after the Bhutto assassination, the Washington Post reported that in early 2008, ?US Special Fo... More About: Asia , Assassination , Hutto
New Footage of Bhutto Assassination Proves Musharraf Is Lying.
2008-01-04 01:36:00 Bob Cesca More About: Pakistan , Musharraf , Lying , Assassination , Bhutto
Musharraf Needs to Resign
2008-01-03 15:22:00 The credibility and stability of Pakistan is at grave risk. If Pakistan destabilizes any further, bin Ladin will set up shop openly. Pakistan/India relations will sour and nuclear war will again become thinkable. International Crisis Group Gravely damaged by eight years of military rule, Pakistan?s fragile political system received a major blow on 27 December 2007, when former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. Her murder, days before the parliamentary elections scheduled for 8 January 2008 and now postponed to 18 February, put an end to a U.S. effort to broker a power-sharing deal with President Pervez Musharraf which the centre-left Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader had already recognised was unrealistic. Her popularity and the belief Musharraf and his allies were responsible, directly or indirectly, have led to violent countrywide protests. Stability in Pakistan and its contribution to wider anti-terror efforts now require rapid transition to legitimate civilian... More About: Resign , Needs
Rudy Surrogate: "I Don't Subscribe To The Principle That There Are Goo
2008-01-02 17:14:00 Talking Points Memo John Deady, the co-chair of New Hampshire Veterans for Rudy , is standing by the comments he made in the controversial interview with The Guardian we posted on below, in which he said that "the Muslims" need to be chased "back to their caves." In an interview with me, Deady confirmed that when he made the comments, he was referring to all Muslims. "I don't subscribe to the principle that there are good Muslims and bad Muslims," Deady told me by phone from his home in New Hampshire. "They're all Muslims." [..]In the earlier interview with The Guardian, Deady said of Muslims: "We need to keep the feet to the fire and keep pressing these people until we defeat or chase them back to their caves or in other words get rid of them." When I asked Deady to elaborate on his suggestion that we need to "get rid" of Muslims, Deady said: "When I say get rid of them, I wasn't necessarily referring to genocide. What I was referring to is, stand up to them every time they s... More About: Election , Subscribe
Bhutto Was To Expose Musharraf's Plan to Rig Elections
2008-01-02 16:39:00 One of the reasons Musharraf gets along so well with Bush is that he's part of the "Democratic" process Bush supports in Pakistan . Bush wanted to set him up to rig elections and monitor his political opponents just like Bush does in the US. But Bhutto was going to spoil Musharraf's fun by exposing his voting corruption to the visiting US Congressman and Senator. Pakistan government delays elections - CNN.com Pakistan's parliamentary elections have been postponed until Februrary 18 because of the unrest following the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The elections were originally scheduled for January 8, but that would have been "impossible" because of the time needed to re-do burned ballot papers and repair ransacked election offices, Chief Election Commissioner Justice Qazi Muhammad Farooq said on Wednesday. Provincial officials also wanted the elections delayed until after the Muslim holy month of Muharram, which will begin around January 9 and end a... More About: Elections , Expose , Plan
Pakistan Military Complicit in Bhutto Assassination?
More articles from this author:2008-01-01 23:44:00 Juan Cole has a great analysis of events in Pakistan . Informed Comment It looks increasingly as though someone in the military government in Pakistan may have been somehow complicit in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto . [..]You could construct a speculative scenario in which the shooter used a standard army issue revolver (I'm not a hardware guy, but I think that would be a .38) because he saw a target of opportunity, but that Plan A had been to detonate a belt bomb. If he used a service revolver, that would raise the question of who gave it to him and why. What if the bullet were found, say at the crime scene? If Benazir were not struck by a bullet, then the army could always maintain that it was fired by a soldier on the scene in the midst of the chaos, and was aimed at the perpetrators. But if she was killed by the army bullet, then it could not be explained away. (In fact, the bullet has not been found, but someone may have been afraid it would be). Motive? Well, the mil... More About: Military , Assassination , Hutto 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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