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  • February 2008

    • UK Probe: Blast Killed Bhutto

      Guardian (UK)  |  Feb 8, 08 6:18 AM CST

      UK Probe: Blast Killed Bhutto

      (Newser) - Scotland Yard detectives investigating the assassination of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto have concluded that the cause of death was not a bullet, but the massive head injury she sustained when she was thrown by the suicide bomb blast. The findings mesh with the Pakistan government's version of the killing and were immediately rejected by skeptical Bhutto supporters, who renewed calls for a UN investigation, reports the Guardian. More »

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      Pakistan  • Pervez Musharraf  • Benazir Bhutto  • assassination  • Asif Ali Zardari  • suicide bomber  • Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

  • January 2008

    • Slain Kenyan Pol a Key to Peace

      New York Times  |  Jan 30, 08 11:25 AM CST

      Slain Kenyan Pol a Key to Peace

      (Newser) - The Kenyan opposition lawmaker who was dragged from his car yesterday and shot to death could have been key to ending the ethnically charged turmoil, reports the New York Times, but his assassination instead further plunged the country into violent chaos. Melitus Mugabe Were had been working toward peace, able to bridge ethnic divides because of his Kikuyu wife. “Whoever did this has killed the dreams of many,” one friend said. More »

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      Kenya  • assassination  • Raila Odinga  • ethnic violence  • Kikuyu

    • Teen Busted in Bhutto Killing

      Associated Press  |  Jan 19, 08 9:39 AM CST

      Teen Busted in Bhutto Killing

      (Newser) - Pakistani authorities have arrested a teenage suspect in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, reports the AP. The 15-year-old said he was part of a five-person team sent to Rawalpindi by Baitullah Mehsud, a militant tribal leader affiliated with al-Qaeda and the Taliban, a senior Pakistani intelligence official said. A spokesman for Mehsud denied the allegation, which he called "propaganda." More »

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      Pakistan  • al-Qaeda  • Benazir Bhutto  • assassination  • Pakistan militants

    • CIA Chief Names Groups Behind Bhutto Assassination

      Washington Post  |  Jan 18, 08 12:41 PM CST

      CIA Chief Names Groups Behind Bhutto Assassination

      (Newser) - The CIA director blames a cooperative effort by al-Qaeda and a group of Pakistani militants for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the Washington Post reports. The conclusion jibes with the explanation Pervez Musharraf has offered, though some Pakistanis still suspect the president and his government had a hand in the ex-PM’s murder. More »

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      Pakistan  • Pervez Musharraf  • Benazir Bhutto  • assassination  • militant  • Michael Hayden  • Central Intelligence Agency  • Baitullah Mehsud

    • Boy Scout Saves Maldives President From Assassin

      AFP  |  Jan 8, 08 9:46 AM CST

      Boy Scout Saves Maldives President From Assassin

      (Newser) - A 15-year-old boy scout saved the Maldives president from an assassination attempt today, wrestling the assailant to the ground. AFP reports that a 20-year-old man brandishing a knife went after Maumoon Abdul Gayoom while he was visiting one of the archipelago's northern islands. Police are currently trying to establish the would-be assassin's motive. More »

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      assassination  • Islamic militants  • assassination attempt  • Maldives  • Maumoon Abdul Gayoom  • assassin  • archipelago

    • Bhutto's Death Her Own Fault: Musharraf

      CNN  |  Jan 7, 08 6:27 AM CST

      Bhutto's Death Her Own Fault: Musharraf

      (Newser) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has absolved his own government—and everyone else—of culpability in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, telling "60 Minutes" that she alone was to blame for her death. "For standing up outside the car, I think it was she to blame alone—nobody else. Responsibility is hers," he said in an interview aired last night. More »

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      Pakistan  • Pervez Musharraf  • Benazir Bhutto  • assassination  • Bhutto assassination

    • Musharraf: Bhutto Endangered Herself

      New York Times  |  Jan 3, 08 2:10 PM CST

      Musharraf: Bhutto Endangered Herself

      (Newser) - President Pervez Musharraf dismissed accusations today that Pakistan's government was involved in the Dec. 27 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, citing extensive security provided to the ex-prime minister as well as careless disregard for her own safety. “There is no complicity,” he said of the killing. “Would I or the government be the maximum gainer from doing this?" More »

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      Pakistan  • Pervez Musharraf  • Benazir Bhutto  • assassination  • Scotland Yard

    • Pakistan Delays Vote to Feb. 18 After Violence

      CNN  |  Jan 2, 08 11:16 AM CST

      Pakistan Delays Vote to Feb. 18 After Violence

      (Newser) - On the day Pakistan announced it had rescheduled parliamentary elections for Feb. 18 in the wake of Benazir Bhutto's assassination, President Pervez Musharraf has asked Scotland Yard to "solve all the confusion" surrounding her death, CNN reports. The country's election commission said the wave of violence after Bhutto's assassination made the original Jan. 8 election date impossible. More »

  • December 2007

    • Police Stopped Bhutto Autopsy: Hospital Rep

      CNN  |  Dec 31, 07 2:25 PM CST

      Police Stopped Bhutto Autopsy: Hospital Rep

      (Newser) - The Rawalpindi police chief prevented doctors from performing an autopsy on Benazir Bhutto, according to an open letter issued today by a representative of the hospital where she died. Chief Aziz Saud invoked the investigators' “exclusive responsibility,” CNN reports, but Saud says Bhutto's husband objected. The lack of an autopsy allows leeway for the government's widely maligned claim that Bhutto died of a skull fracture. More »

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      Pakistan  • Benazir Bhutto  • Pakistan People's Party  • assassination  • Asif Ali Zardari  • Rawalpindi

    • Bhutto Slumped as Shots Rang Out: Video

      CNN  |  Dec 31, 07 5:28 AM CST

      Bhutto Slumped as Shots Rang Out: Video

      (Newser) - Newly released videotape of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto bolsters Bhutto's supporters' claim that the Pakistani opposition leader was killed by gunshot wounds and not—as the government insists—by hitting her head on her car sunroof when a bomb exploded. The video shows Bhutto slumping forward after gunshots ring out and before the bomb explodes, CNN reports. More »

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      Pakistan  • Pervez Musharraf  • Benazir Bhutto  • assassination  • suicide bombing  • Asif Ali Zardari

    • Bloggers Blast Government Version of Bhutto Death

      AFP  |  Dec 31, 07 3:49 AM CST

      Bloggers Blast Government Version of Bhutto Death

      (Newser) - Pakistan's political blogging community is expressing extreme skepticism about government statements as to how former prime minister Benazir Bhutto died in last week's assassination attack. The government is claiming Bhutto died after hitting her head on her car’s sunroof in the bomb attack, but the theory is widely disputed, particularly by Bhutto’s political party, which claims she was shot in the head. More »

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      Pakistan  • al-Qaeda  • Benazir Bhutto  • assassination  • blogger

    • Bhutto's Death Just Pakistan's Latest Unsolved Mystery

      Washington Post  |  Dec 30, 07 3:36 PM CST

      Bhutto's Death Just Pakistan's Latest Unsolved Mystery

      (Newser) - Moments after Benazir Bhutto was killed—whether by gun, bomb, or hitting her head on a sunroof—came another disturbing image. Workers hosed blood from the streets, washing away potential evidence, the Washington Post reports—and ensuring yet another whodunit to Pakistan's long list of unsolved political murders. "I thought, 'There goes the answer to all of the Pakistan people's questions,' said a lawyer who once worked for Bhutto. More »

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      Pakistan  • Pervez Musharraf  • Benazir Bhutto  • Taliban  • Pakistan People's Party  • assassination

    • Bhutto Aide Sees Cover-Up in Changing Cause of Death

      CNN  |  Dec 29, 07 7:35 AM CST

      Bhutto Aide Sees Cover-Up in Changing Cause of Death

      (Newser) - A top aide to Benazir Bhutto charges in a CNN interview that the Pakistani government is trying to cover up the cause of Bhutto's death. Aide Sherry Rehman blasts as "bizarre, dangerous nonsense" the government's conclusion that Bhutto was not struck by bullets, but died of a skull fracture after hitting her head on a sunroof latch. Rehman said Bhutto bled profusely  on the way to the hospital, leaving the two cars she was carried in covered with blood. More »

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      Pakistan  • Pervez Musharraf  • Benazir Bhutto  • assassination  • suicide bombing

    • Phone Call Ties al-Qaeda to Bhutto Killing

      Associated Press  |  Dec 28, 07 2:24 PM CST

      Phone Call Ties al-Qaeda to Bhutto Killing

      (Newser) - The Pakistani government offered the transcript of an intercepted phone call today as evidence that the Benazir Bhutto's murder was the work of Baitullah Mehsud, an extremist linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban, the AP reports. In the transcript, Mehsud congratulates an operative for a "spectacular job" in the suicide bombing, saying, "They were very brave boys who killed her." More »

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      Pakistan  • al-Qaeda  • Benazir Bhutto  • assassination  • Pakistan militants  • riots

    • Did the US Do Enough for Bhutto?

      Time  |  Dec 28, 07 4:58 AM CST

      Did the US Do Enough for Bhutto?

      (Newser) - Finger pointing has begun in the wake of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto—and several fingers are pointing at Washington, reports Time magazine. Critics say the White House is so committed to supporting President Pervez Musharraf, a key ally in the war against terror, that the US has been too trusting of his administration and failed to pressure the Pakistan leader to give Bhutto adequate security.      More »

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      al-Qaeda  • Pervez Musharraf  • Benazir Bhutto  • Taliban  • Joe Biden  • assassination  • Center for American Progress

    • Bhutto: If I Die, Blame Musharraf

      CNN  |  Dec 28, 07 4:42 AM CST

      Bhutto: If I Die, Blame Musharraf

      (Newser) - Assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto sent an email to a US adviser and close friend two months ago saying that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf would share the blame if she was killed, CNN reports. Bhutto said his government had denied her request for extra security after the October attempt on her life and she mentioned threats against her from people high in the government. More »

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      Pakistan  • Pervez Musharraf  • Benazir Bhutto  • assassination

    • Pitched Power Battle Triggered by Bhutto Death

      Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 28, 07 3:23 AM CST

      Pitched Power Battle Triggered by Bhutto Death

      (Newser) - The assassination of Benazir Bhutto will exacerbate already fraught tensions between competing Pakistani political parties, the Wall Street Journal reports. Bhutto's secular, generally pro-Western Pakistan Peoples' Party was expected to do well in upcoming parliamentary elections, but the future of the PPP is now uncertain in the aftermath of Bhutto's death. Numerous Pakistani political factions will now battle for political standing. More »

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      Pakistan  • Pervez Musharraf  • Benazir Bhutto  • assassination  • Pakistan elections

    • Sharif Calls for Election Boycott

      Time  |  Dec 28, 07 3:15 AM CST

      Sharif Calls for Election Boycott

      (Newser) - Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif called on his countrymen to boycott the coming elections and demanded President Pervez Musharraf resign following the shocking assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Sharif, 57, long a political adversary of Bhutto, rushed to the hospital in Rawalpindi and sat silently by her body after she was shot dead yesterday. "Benazir Bhutto was also my sister," he said later, his eyes welling with tears. More »

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      Pervez Musharraf  • Benazir Bhutto  • Nawaz Sharif  • assassination  • boycott  • Pakistan Muslim League

    • Bhutto's Body Flown Home

      CNN  |  Dec 27, 07 7:54 PM CST

      Bhutto's Body Flown Home

      (Newser) - The body of Benazir Bhutto was flown to her ancestral homeland in Pakistan Friday as riots in the wake of her assassination claimed the lives of at least nine people. Police reported widespread unrest in Karachi and across the country, CNN reports. TV footage showed Bhutto supporters torching cars and throwing rocks at police. She will be buried Friday near her father in their family village. More »

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      Pakistan  • Pervez Musharraf  • Benazir Bhutto  • assassination  • funeral

    • Photographer Recalls Bhutto's Final Moments

      CNN  |  Dec 27, 07 4:53 PM CST

      Photographer Recalls Bhutto's Final Moments

      (Newser) - In the final moments before she was assassinated, Benazir Bhutto waved to supporters from the sunroof of her vehicle and was "clearly in her element," photographer John Moore, who snapped the last photos of Bhutto, tells CNN. In a crowd of 5,000 to 8,000, "she just wanted to get close to the people, and obviously whoever was after her—they saw that coming," said Moore. More »

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      Pakistan  • Benazir Bhutto  • assassination

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