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2 Top Cops Busted in Benazir Bhutto Assassination

Police officials 'failed to protect' former prime minister

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 23, 2010 3:41 AM CST | Updated Dec 23, 2010 6:38 AM CST

(Newser) – Two top Pakistani police officials have been arrested in connection with the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. She was killed three years ago by a 15-year-old suicide bomber as she campaigned for reelection after an eight-year exile."No one believes this boy acted alone," a recent United Nations report concluded. "A range of government officials failed profoundly in their efforts first to protect Ms. Bhutto, and to investigate with vigor all those responsible for her murder."

Saud Aziz—police chief of the region where Bhutto was killed—and Khurram Shehza, the head of Bhutto's security team, have been accused of security breaches, covering up evidence by hosing down the crime scene, and failing to conduct a postmortem examination on Bhutto. The men were busted yesterday and have been denied bail, CNN reports.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto addresses a news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan in 2007.
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto addresses a news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan in 2007.   (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)
A Pakistani billboard features the portrait of Benazir Bhutto.
A Pakistani billboard features the portrait of Benazir Bhutto.   (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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COMMENTS
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JoeQ
Dec 23, 2010 1:15 PM CST
In a country as twisted with corruption as Pakistan, those two guys could be the only innocent people ... or not. We will never know.
Count-Spatula
Dec 23, 2010 5:56 AM CST
Oh, it's an assassination now? But the media exhausted the headlines saying that she banged her head on the Limo's skylight handle, and that killed her. Is this how we revise history? ...and defuse the power of the people's anger at the moment?
kokuaguy
Dec 23, 2010 4:04 AM CST
"The suspects have been denied bail." One would hope so !!!

 
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