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Benazir Bhutto dead
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Benazir Bhutto 'killed in blast'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7161590.stm
I had an inkling some months ago that some bastard would get to her .... :impissed:
This world is so f*cked up.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7161590.stm
I had an inkling some months ago that some bastard would get to her .... :impissed:
This world is so f*cked up.
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RIP
it was predictable imo.
The worst case scenario does not bear thinking about though: civil war in a nuclear country...
Why do people only care when there is nukes or oil involved?
When a country has neither the rest of the world is happy to do very little
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide
"The realities of Rwanda in 1994 were staggering and are no less horrific in retrospect. A recent census confirms that over 900,000 men, women and children were murdered, most of them hacked to death with farm implements wielded by people they knew. ....The conventional wisdom of U.S. foreign policy is that resources are allocated and risks are taken in direct proportion to measurable security or economic interests. Possessing no oil and posing no threat to America's security, Rwanda simply did not meet the U.S. interests test."
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/kfiles/b44516.html
Because a nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India would frankly make Rwanda look like a playground fight.
The Rwandan incident, while a shameful part of Western history due to our lack of activity in resolving this, was contained. A nuclear war would have far more wider effects like nuclear fallout etc.
Although it's a shame she also didn't seem to think things ahead and plan very well with regards to personal security of herself and those around her.
The day she returned to Pakistan there was loads of trouble and people died - all of that was quiet foreseeable.
The fact she was a target is no great surprise .. I'm sure she knew that already each time she went out in public .. but I wonder why if not for her own sake - she didn't take more precautions for the people around her .. it's not just her that died today but herself plus many people standing around her - I believe another 20+ people died in that explosion.
It's also part of the reason I think all major world leaders should have their own means of transport such as their own assigned planes and not travel by regular scheduled air planes with average people because they are potential targets for being attacked by bombs and so putting ordinary people at risk.
Fuck Rwanda, that'd already happened. How about Darfur that's going on as we speak? As soon as a British teacher is given 15 days in prison in the same country though, and it makes front page news all over the world for a week.
If it makes you feel any better, they only have the regular kind :razz:
Rest in peace.
RIP.
These kinda atrocities and killings are happening on a daily basis in countries like Pakistan. This one only grabbed the headlines because it killed an ex-PM.
It's just another one to add to the list.
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All in all a very worrying situation for the country.
It's in the second group of 'suspects' listed in the article, under 'The Military'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,2232736,00.html
I wonder what she meant by them being behind "extremism and fanaticism". In a secular or Islamist context?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIO8B6fpFSQ
That reference to who killed Osama Bin Laden .. surely that must be a mistake?
Some news sources are reporting she actually died by hitting her head on the handle to the sunroof on her car
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7161666.stm
hmm, wonder what will happen?
There were two opposition leaders.. Nawaz Sharif, who was recently disqualified from taking part in Pakistan's upcoming elections, and Benazir Bhutto, who has just been murdered.
And to be fair, it is obvious that Musharaff didn't even need to do the deed himself, all he had to do was nothing. Al-Qaeda were already openly threatening to assassinate her, and she was largely dependent on Pakistan's military for her security.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2007/dec/28/benazir.bhutto.gun.video
This is pretty rare in itself (it's usually the other way- Al Qaeda claims anything it can) and together with the bullshit story about Bhutto dying from a knock to the head while dodging the bullets, it makes me suspect of government/intelligence services involvement.
Although they may have been taken aback by the wide, cross-political abbhorrence of the Pakastanis to this murder.
Just because they deny it, does not mean it is so. Remember they denied the killing of all those schoolchildren in Iraq a couple of years ago - when it was quite plainly them?
If there was government involvement, who would want to kill/sacrifice themselves in the process, for the sake of Musharraf? I wouldn't rule the governement out completely - but I certainly don't dismiss Al Qaeda yet.
The some high rank officers in the Pakistani army as corrupt as fuck and not exactly fans of democracy. Many would have seen Bhutto's elimination as beneficial to their goals and beliefs.