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2/2/2008

Benazir Bhutto names her Killers

Filed under: International — DRJ @ 10:59 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

In a posthumous autobiography excerpted in the Times of London, Benazir Bhutto names four groups that she was told intended to kill her. One group included Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden. Another includes Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud, who is reported to be behind her assassination:

“The former Pakistan prime minister, who was assassinated as she left a rally in Rawalpindi in December, reveals she was warned by both President Pervez Musharraf and a “friendly Muslim government” that Hamza Bin Laden was planning her murder.

The naming of Bin Laden’s teenage son appears to bolster intelligence claims that Hamza is being groomed as a future leader of Al-Qaeda.

In her new autobiography, Bhutto writes: “I was told by both the Musharraf regime and the foreign Muslim government that four suicide bomber squads would attempt to kill me. These included, the reports said, the squads sent by the Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud; Hamza Bin Laden, a son of Osama Bin Laden; Red Mosque militants; and a Karachi-based militant group.”

There is speculation that Hamza bin Laden is being groomed to act as his father’s successor. The Times’ article describes him as follows:

“Little has been heard of Hamza since he featured in a joint Taliban and Al-Qaeda video, shot in 2001, of a militant attack on a Pakistan army camp in South Waziristan, a militant stronghold near the Afghan border.

Last September Hamza was described in reports as a senior Al-Qaeda leader who had been waging jihad in the lawless tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.”

Bhutto also provided details of an earlier suicide bomb attack on her motorcade when she returned to Pakistan last October:

“Bhutto’s book also describes how a suicide bomb attack on her motorcade in Karachi when she returned home last October may have been carried out by a would-be assassin who lined the clothes of a toddler with plastic explosive to turn the child into a bomb.

She says a man gestured to her to hold the child, before trying to hand it to police in a nearby van, which exploded soon afterwards.”

As horrible as the last two paragraphs are, it’s important to know this so we understand what our enemies are willing to do to win … and so we know why we can’t let them.

— DRJ

2 Responses to “Benazir Bhutto names her Killers”

  1. But, but, they do it for the children.

    davod (5bdbd3)

  2. As a nation we have become an “instant gratification” society. We can not comprehend 10 years of war or even having troops involved in one. Though Korea continues to be supported by US troops stationed there. We have bases in Germany as well. The nation has grown weary of the war, place a big chunk of that feeling on the backs of the MSM, they only show the problems and not the pluses often enough.

    Complicating matters is the “feeling” society has about how wars are fought and WON! You do not win by occupying, you will by total domination! Genghis Kahn hit the same area with a vengeance and there was peace for 1000 years following!

    Benazir Bhutto sacrificed her life in the hope that both Pakistan and the US would wake up! Vain as such seems, she knew she was an open target.

    Now lets target all the bin Ladens! Allowing any of them to depart our reach after 9/11 was a mistake! Allowing any more of them to roam free is but providing the means and the money for us to watch more domestic terrorism. If his relatives fear then they will handle the problem. If not, well line up some virgins for a bunch of the same name.

    Harsh? Sure as hell is! Effective, sure as hell is!

    Actually it can be much easier, just tell the Saudis they have 90 days or Meca disappears into dust or glass. That family is their problem! Deal with it or kiss off selling their oil to anybody! Though it will still flow outward, there will be no income from it.

    But that won’t happen. Even if it should.

    TC (1cf350)


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