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[Beeyee]

On CNN now.

Update: Bullet wound to the neck, after the bomb blast.

[Beeyee]

She's dead.

[Tiger Beer]

Wish I was offered CNN on my Cable TV.

That's messed up though, I mean that suicide bombing. I'm reading about it now elsewhere.

[big_fella1]

Australia Network quoted that her husband had confirmed she had been injured. BBC world is reporting she died on the operating table.

[igotthisguitar]

Pretty sad

Pakistan's Bhutto Killed By Bombing

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide bombing that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, a party aide and a military official said.

"At 6:16 p.m. she expired," said Wasif Ali Khan, a member of Bhutto's party who was at Rawalpindi General Hospital where she was taken after the attack.



A senior military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment, confirmed that Bhutto had died.

Her supporters at the hospital began chanting "Dog, Musharraf, dog," referring to Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf. Some of them smashed the glass door at the main entrance of the emergency unit, others burst into tears

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/pakistan;_ylt=AnOGhSNrYmoaP_RXD6p7uvADW7oF

[mistermasan]

did america's pakistani marcos just have his ninoy aquino moment?

[stevemcgarrett]

from CNN International

Bhutto confirmed dead, likely from shrapnel from an explosive device that also killed or maimed more than a hundred supporters.

Pakistan is a basketcase and has been for years. Musharaf was only able to contain it, and often not even then.

While not of such moral principle as her Burmese sister, she had a moral compass and a firm grasp on the harsh realities of life in this turbulent nation. She loved her country more than herself as evident by her willingness to return to politics after a self-exile of ten years in London. She could have remained in the lap of luxury, griping from a comfortable distance, but did not. She was steadfast after an earlier assassination attempt. Was she power hungry? I think not. And a former colleague in China, a Kiwi who had worked for the UN in Pakistan for 15 years, said that she was the one bright light in an otherwise utterly corrupt Karachi government. While personally apolitical, he admired her courage even then during her first term in office after democratic elections. Allegations of bribery and embezzlement have never been substantiated.

A sad day, indeed, for anyone who cares about the prospect for democracy in this part of the world.

And the only woman to lead a Muslim nation is gone. And once again Muslim men show their fear of Muslim women. Their unfounded fear and arrogance continues to breed social unrest and fanaticism.

mistermasan compared:

[riverboy]

Steve, with all due respect. I don't want to get into an argument over this one, but I think the problem that Musharaf has been a dictator and obtained power through a military coup, should have been a reason to pull support the moment he took power.

I really fail to see what Pakistan has done to fight terrorism. Perhaps I missed it in the headlines. Bottom line, a once previously democratically elected president has been assinated. If a real crackdown on the extremists happened, perhaps it would not have taken place.

[canuckistan]

[igotthisguitar]

2008 Hopefuls React To Bhutto Death

WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said Thursday the assassination of
Benazir Bhutto underscores a need for the U.S. to increase its efforts to combat terrorism.

PROBLEM, REACTION, SOLUTION!

cont'd ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071227/ap_on_el_pr/candidates_pakistan;_ylt=Anvhx1L4gMuLr37AAHQsiaIEtbAF