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Bhutto Warned of Her Murder by Osama's Son

Names 4 hit squads in chilling posthumous autobiography

By Jane Yager,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 3, 2008 8:23 AM CST
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(Newser) – Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was told that four suicide bomb squads had been sent to kill her—and names Hamza bin Laden, son of Osama, as the leader of one, the slain leader says in an eerie, posthumously published autobiography. Bhutto's claim appears to bolster intelligence reports that Hamza, 16, is being groomed as a future al-Qaeda head, reports the Times of London.

Bhutto writes that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and a "friendly Muslim government" tipped her off that the hit teams included a Taliban warlord, Red Mosque militants, Karachi-based militants, and the bin Laden teen. Intelligence reports last September described Hamza as a senior al-Qaeda leader who had been waging jihad along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

A police officer keeps watch from the roof of a building in front of an election poster featuring Benazir Bhutto and her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Monday, Jan. 14, 2008 in Barakau, Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto's political party said Monday it may work with Pakistan's president after elections next month despite...
A police officer keeps watch from the roof of a building in front of an election poster featuring Benazir Bhutto and her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Monday, Jan. 14, 2008 in Barakau, Pakistan. Benazir...   (Associated Press)
Pakistan People's Party's co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, bottom center, sits in front of his slain wife and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto as he addresses during a ceremony to pay tribute to Bhutto and her supporters who were died along with her, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008 in Karachi, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Fareed...
Pakistan People's Party's co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, bottom center, sits in front of his slain wife and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto as he addresses during a ceremony to pay tribute to Bhutto and...   (Associated Press)
Posters of Murdered former President of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto are held by protestors as they demonstrate outside Downing Street, London, Monday, Jan. 28, 2008, against Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf's visit. Musharraf is holding talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown Monday, a significant last stop on his European tour to shore...
Posters of Murdered former President of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto are held by protestors as they demonstrate outside Downing Street, London, Monday, Jan. 28, 2008, against Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf's...   (Associated Press)
An artist frames a portrait of the late former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008. In neighboring Rawalpindi, a court allowed police to continue questioning for 10 more days a teenager who allegedly confessed to having played a role in the Dec. 27 assassination of...
An artist frames a portrait of the late former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008. In neighboring Rawalpindi, a court allowed police to continue questioning for...   (Associated Press)
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