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Pakistan TV station shows Bhutto shooter, contradicts government
Dec 29, 2007, 22:39 GMT
Islamabad - A Pakistani television station released footage early Sunday claiming that opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was shot dead by an assassin before an accomplice detonated a suicide bomb, contrary to official government claims.
The new, exclusive images from the Pakistani-based DawnNews TV show a young gunman, wearing sunglasses and dressed in a light-brown sports jacket, firing at Bhutto as she stood atop the sunroof of her white security Range Rover following an election campaign rally in the city of Rawalpindi on Thursday.
The footage clearly shows Bhutto collapsing into her armoured- vehicle before the suicide blast, contradicting official government claims that she recoiled only after the blast and cracked her skull on the sunroof.
The government's official version, which included only partial footage of the attack, has been met with widespread derision. Bhutto's senior aides inside the vehicle are adamant that she was shot.
On Saturday night, Pakistan Interior Ministry officials again had insisted that Bhutto died after cracking her skull off a lever of the vehicle's sunroof following a recoil from the bomb blast.
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..knew there was another guy ready with a bomb to take care of him?
to supervise their government more closely?
The mayhem all over the world is meanwhile unbearable. In any crisis, the US seems to have a hand in.
Islam is love to all men ( and boys ).
We love to blow people up.
We love to blow up Mosques.
We love to dominate women.
We love to kill.
We love living in the Middle ages.
We love chopping peoples limbs off.
We love Allah.
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Shell LavenderDec 30th, 2007 - 03:11:21
They probably wouldn't let them do an autopsy because it would have shown the bullet to be an American military issue. I believe she was shot, partially because she told Frost, on Frost on the World, Osama bin Laudin is dead.
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