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Detective Quits Bhutto Bomb Case

Ex-PM charges bias, says he attended husband's torture

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(Newser) – The detective probing last week's bomb attack on Bhutto quit today, after the two-time PM accused him of bias, the BBC reports. Bhutto claimed that Manzur Mughal attended her husband's torture eight years ago, and Pakistan did not deny it. “The investigation team will be formed anew,” an official said, "in view of the objections raised by Benazir Bhutto on the chief investigator's credentials."

Pakistan also made a show of  force against militants today by sending 2,500 troops to fight a cleric who seeks Taliban-style rule in Pakistan, the Washington Post reports. But the move instilled little apparent fear as 6,000 supporters of cleric Maulana Fazlullah rallied near the deployment. Militants also bombed an army convoy and injured four, officials said.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, second from left, arrives at the tomb of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, under tight security, Monday, Oct. 22, 2007, in Karachi, Pakistan. A senior government official on Monday rejected a call from Bhutto for foreign experts to help investigate the suicide attack...
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, second from left, arrives at the tomb of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, under tight security, Monday, Oct. 22, 2007, in Karachi, Pakistan. A...   (Associated Press)
Supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto chant slogans at a rally to condemn Thursday night's suicide bombing, Monday, Oct. 22, 2007 in Multan, Pakistan. A senior government official on Monday rejected a call from Bhutto for foreign experts to help investigate the suicide attack on her homecoming procession...
Supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto chant slogans at a rally to condemn Thursday night's suicide bombing, Monday, Oct. 22, 2007 in Multan, Pakistan. A senior government official...   (Associated Press)
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto addresses the media at her residence in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007. Bhutto said that she had received a new death threat but will start campaigning in Pakistani cities in the next couple days, avoiding mass rallies, five days after the suicide bombing...
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto addresses the media at her residence in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007. Bhutto said that she had received a new death threat but will start campaigning...   (Associated Press)
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto addresses the media at her residence in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Raul Gallego Abellan)
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto addresses the media at her residence in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Raul Gallego Abellan)   (Associated Press)
An unidentified bodyguard of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, left, helps carry an injured man from the site of a bomb explosion that targeted Bhutto's procession, in Karachi, Pakistan, in this Oct 18, 2007 photo. Fifty of Bhutto's guards, recruited from her party, were killed in the bombing. (AP Photo...
An unidentified bodyguard of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, left, helps carry an injured man from the site of a bomb explosion that targeted Bhutto's procession, in Karachi, Pakistan, in this Oct...   (Associated Press)
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