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Bhutto Was to Give U.S. Senator “Secret” Document on Day She Was Slain

CNN reports that Benazir Bhutto was to give U.S. officials a “secret” document on the day she was killed. The document details measures by which Pakistan’s intelligence services would allegedly rig the elections. Bhutto intended to give the dossier first to Sen. Arlen Specter then to presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

The choice of these American politicians is interesting. It suggests that Bhutto believed they would be more effective than elements in the Bush administration. Specter, who was in Islamabad ready to visit Bhutto later Thursday evening, often diverges with the Bush administration despite being a Republican. Clinton and Obama are leading Democratic contenders who would relish an opportunity to throw a blow at the Bush administration’s foreign policy. Pakistan provides such an opportunity given the perceived success of the Iraq surge and its integrality to the Afghanistan problem — the primordial post-9/11 U.S. national security issue.

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Category: Arlen Specter, Barack Obama, Benazir Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto's Assassination, Hillary Clinton, Pakistan, 2007

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5 Responses

  1. Corey H. says:

    The one thing that is certain here is that the situation in Pakistan is a mess. The truth is, all sides are at fault here. Benazir Bhutto made several mistakes by ignoring government warnings that suicide bombers had infiltrated Rwalpindi. She assumed that the warnings were nothing more than a conspiracy theory to silence her, which unfortunately she was very wrong about, and it sadly cost her her life. Musharraf is at fault for failing to reach out to the opposition parties in Pakistan and make the case that unity and stability are the most imporant things at the time.

    C.H.
    http://www.unitedworldforpeace.blogspot.com

  2. Ayub says:

    Well God knows what is the reality. Arbaba Rahim has said that she has been murdered by ones who could be benefitted from her property…

    Well Billions of rupees are lost in the riots which erupted after the 27th December garguantun tragedy in which former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a gun-and-bomb attack in Rawalpindi. Have it at:

    http://www.chowrangi.com/sagacity-needed.html

  3. She gave three names to Musharaff before coming to pakistan. Why they are not considered important?
    In my view a highly trained Sniper with Gyro stabillsed rifle killed her and he was sure she will show her head out of the hatch. The pakistan authorities did the xray only to find out there was no bullet inside the head which will act as a evidence.The cleaning of the area is also highly suspicious. To me those two guys shooting are actually using toy pistols and they are a backup to do the coverup for the SNIPER.
    She was killed because she was COURAGEOUS ENOUGH TO PROVE EVERYTHING ABOUT PAKISTAN WAS WRONG.Ordinary pakistanies want food,security,peace and job with honour.They want education which will provide the jobs.

  4. Sonia says:

    ohoo
    muhtarma had died in suside bombbing and master gang attack killiing.
    soryy to say but in my point of view that no terarisim attack on muhtarma it was planing to cut of from the politic.

    how it can possoable that others hand can involve in this
    attack.

    It is thinking point
    think and give me urs views about this artical

    http://www.forumpakistan.com

  5. Naeem Iqbal says:

    Mrs. Bhutto embodied the hopes of many Pakistanis for a democratic, secular future. Her death is a profound loss for the country and its people.

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