Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
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it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Fri, 12/28/2007 - 21:12.
Kudos to Raw Story for picking this one up. From a Dec. 27 McClatchy Newspapers first-person account by Saeed Shah (emphasis added):
I was standing near the rally stage, about 30 to 40 yards away from the scene of the shooting. There was pandemonium. On hearing the shots, I started running toward the scene. Then came the explosion. I ran back a bit. I didn't see the killer, and by the time I got to the gates, Bhutto's SUV was driving to a Rawalpindi hospital. She didn't have a chance.
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Police officers had frisked the 3,000 to 4,000 people attending Thursday's rally when they entered the park, but as the speakers from Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party droned on, the police abandoned many of their posts. As she drove out through the gate, her main protection appeared to be her own bodyguards, who wore their usual white T-shirts inscribed: "Willing to die for Benazir."
Which recalls the similar claims Bhutto herself made following the Oct. 18 attempt on her life, which claimed 136 lives in Karachi.
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Police abandoned security posts before Bhutto slaying?
Kudos to Raw Story for picking this one up. From a Dec. 27 McClatchy Newspapers first-person account by Saeed Shah (emphasis added):
Which recalls the similar claims Bhutto herself made following the Oct. 18 attempt on her life, which claimed 136 lives in Karachi.