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Scotland Yard Team Begins Pakistan Probe

Brits arrive to help investigation of Bhutto assassination

By Zach Samalin, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 4, 2008 3:08 PM CST

(Newser) – Investigators from Scotland Yard arrived in Pakistan today to assist with the government's investigation of Benazir Bhutto's assassination. Pervez Musharraf invited the team to lend credibility to the investigation and help put to rest what the president called "conspiracy theories," but critics remain... Read full story »

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