Bhutto's Son: 'Democracy is the Best Revenge'

Monday, December 31, 2007

Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son Bilawal was catapulted into the maelstrom of Pakistani politics yesterday, appointed leader of her party just three days after the assassination that plunged the country into chaos. "The party's long struggle for democracy will continue with renewed vigour," he said. "My mother always said, democracy is the best revenge."

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Posted by happyending at 2007-12-31 02:49 PM | Reply | Flag:

Let's see here...Bhutto was elected because of her father (former leader of Pakistan) and now that she is gone, her son wants to take over. I think even the slow learning US has figured out that a last name and lineage is not guarantee of competency. Hopefully, Pakistani voters will go against the rampant corruption that marked Bhutto's reign.

Posted by Jacque_Strap at 2007-12-31 03:56 PM | Reply | Flag:

hope this kid can dodge bullets.

Posted by CLINTONISKING at 2007-12-31 04:30 PM | Reply | Flag:

CIA-ISI Created "Qaeda Network" Blamed for Pakistan Troubles

Kurt Nimmo
Truth News
December 30, 2007
It is a familiar if not worn-out refrain: "The Qaeda network accused by Pakistan's government of killing the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is increasingly made up not of foreign fighters but of homegrown Pakistani militants bent on destabilizing the country, analysts and security officials here say."

If we are to believe the New York Times -- you know, the propaganda sheet in large part responsible for selling the "war" in Iraq, that is to say the plan to mass murder of more than a million Iraqis -- the contrived terrorist scare crow al-Qaeda has "clearly expanded their ranks and turned to a direct confrontation with the Pakistani security forces while also aiming at political figures like Ms. Bhutto," never mind there is absolutely no evidence of this and never mind as well al-Qaeda was in fact created by Pakistan's ISI, with a large infusion of CIA cash and directives.

"Al Qaeda right now seems to have turned its face toward Pakistan and attacks on the Pakistani government and Pakistani people," averred Robert Gates, one of the primary founders of al-Qaeda, a fact he willingly admitted in his memoir, From the Shadows. Of course, no mention of this slimy connection in the "liberal" New York Times, the former home of the neocon disinfo operative Judith Miller.

"The expansion of Pakistan's own militants, with their fortified links to Al Qaeda, presents a deeply troubling development for the Bush administration and its efforts to stabilize this volatile nuclear-armed country."

And yet few seem to be troubled by the fact these militants were mentored and lavishly funded by the CIA. Long ago relegated to the memory hole are uncomfortable facts: Gen. Akhtar Abdul Rahman, Pakistani ISI's head from 1980 to 1987, regularly met with bin Laden in Peshawar, Pakistan; the CIA essentially micromanaged Afghanistan's opium production; the ISI trained "militants" (i.e., patsies and useful idiots) to attack the Soviet Union proper; well over 100,000 Islamic militants were trained in Pakistan between 1986 and 1992 in camps constructed and overseen by the CIA and MI6, with the British SAS training future al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in bomb-making and other black arts, etc., on and on, ad nauseam.

Now we are expected to believe al-Qaeda, appearing out of the mist of amnesia, is a portentous threat to the poor people of Pakistan, as related by the premier propaganda sheet, the New York Times.

www.truthnews.us

Posted by JeffnDenmark at 2008-01-01 05:25 AM | Reply | Flag:

Pakistan TV channel shows Bhutto shooter, contradicts government
Posted December 30th, 2007 by Mudassir Rizwan

* Muslim World News

Islamabad, Dec 30 (DPA) A Pakistani television station released footage early Sunday claiming that opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was shot dead by an assassin before an accomplice detonated a suicide bomb, contrary to official government claims.

The new, exclusive images from the Pakistani-based DawnNews TV show a young gunman, wearing sunglasses and dressed in a light-brown sports jacket, firing at Bhutto as she stood atop the sunroof of her white security Range Rover following an election campaign rally in the city of Rawalpindi Thursday.

The footage clearly shows Bhutto collapsing into her armoured-vehicle before the suicide blast, contradicting official government claims that she recoiled only after the blast and cracked her skull on the sunroof.

The government's official version, which included only partial footage of the attack, has been met with widespread derision. Bhutto's senior aides inside the vehicle are adamant that she was shot.

On Saturday night, Pakistan Interior Ministry officials again had insisted that Bhutto died after cracking her skull off a lever of the vehicle's sunroof following recoil from the bomb blast.
www.twocircles.net

Posted by JeffnDenmark at 2008-01-01 08:02 AM | Reply | Flag:

Bhutto's 19-year-old-son?

Sounds like the Bushes, Clintons and Corleones.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2008-01-01 10:47 AM | Reply | Flag: