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Pro-Taliban militants deny hand in Bhutto's killing
Dec 29, 2007, 11:55 GMT
Islamabad - Pro-Taliban militants on Saturday denied the claim of the Pakistani government that they were involved in the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, media reports said.
Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema claimed late Friday that law enforcement agencies had intercepted a telephone conversation proving that Baitullah Mehsud, leader of the newly-formed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (Taliban Movement Pakistan) in the country's volatile tribal areas, was behind the attack on Bhutto.
'The government is trying to defame the tribesmen,' Maulvi Omar, a spokesman for the militants, told the BBC's Urdu Service by telephone from an undisclosed location.
'Benazir Bhutto's murder is a political matter, and there is a very strong possibility that the (country's) intelligence agencies were behind the attack.'
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Right on, if the US would look after its own people, and stop them killing each other. they would not have time to stir up and support the countries just because they are on the political left. Its getting to a point where US citizens are not safe at home where they are killing each other in record numbers, nor safe abroard where they are hated by the other people of the world in record numbers. Whats a Yank to do Eh!
Funny!
A life is simply a life. No matter Benazir's or some one else. So killing of innocent people is not justified in any case.
Pakistan government says Pro-Taliban did and Pro-Taliban says Pakistan Government's secret services did it! Means that both have resources capable to do such inhuman acts. And both know each other. Which province left now? Punjab ? Yes. The fourth Province without trouble! And what can cause unrest in that province? Nawaz Sharif? yes. But, government has full control over steering the trouble. And it seems governemnt takes trouble to the area it wants to control. A managed task of the dirty Government and it's secret services. Secrets are always covered by deaths. Lets see who hangs himself. Another power is rising up in that region and it is totally democratic run by sincere and loyal citizens of Pakistan. And they will kick all the foreign hands out of their state. Wish you good luck.
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OhMyGodDec 29th, 2007 - 13:08:38
Gosh, who would ever be able to see through such a clever rouse? Kill off your opposition with a precision hit in a fortified area surrounded by government buildings, blame the 'bogey man,' and act all innocent. Genius... Sounds like something the pResident of the U.S. would come up with.
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