Pro-U.S. ally Benazir Bhutto martyred in Pakistan
The carnage left by a suicide bomber who gun down Benazir Bhutto and then blew himself and dozens of people at a political rally in Rawalpindi Thursday.
Pakistan and its institutions are far more resilient and disciplined than many people in the West may understand says a former U.S. intelligence official knowledgeable about Pakistan. Former U.S. agent’s comment follows the assassination of Benazir Bhutto by suicide bombers.
Two-time former Pakistani Prime Minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto 54, Knew her life will be in danger and risked it all, for her beloved Pakistan and for democracy.
The Bush administration had worked for more than a year to orchestrate a deal between Bhutto and Musharraf that would allow her to return from exile and run for office. She returned to Pakistan on October 18 after eight-years in self-imposed exile in order to take part in general elections slated for next year. At the time Pakistani extremists including terrorist network of Al-Qaida, who also hold perception that Bhutto was darling of American government promised to welcome Mrs Bhutto with herds of suicide bombers at the airport. She ignored the threat and almost got killed when her convoy was struck by a suicide bomber soon after her arrival in Karachi.
Mrs Bhutto’s assassination stunned leaders around the world who urged calm and warned that extremists must not be allowed to destabilize the nuclear-armed nation before the January 8 parliamentary vote.
However, former U.S intelligent officer says Before jumping in and [scream that Pakistan is a failed nuclear state] and draw conclusions about collusion. He says let us never forget that at least in his lifetime two American presidents shot and one died, and a likely Democratic candidate Bobby Kennedy killed and Martin Luther King Jr., all in rapid succession. If some guy has one hand on a lanyard and the other on a gun, and he’s willing to blow himself up, whether it’s in Washington or Rawalpindi, if he gets through, he can do his dirty job. It’s a conspiracy theorists’ dream. …
My sense is that the American government can send sympathy and condolences and condemn the assassination, and then should shut up says former U.S. agent.
In any case Mrs Bhutto’s assassination is a blow and potential set back in U.S. effort in ‘war on terror’. Of late, the U.S. military has been frustrated by the inability of Pakistani military to control its borders or the tribal areas, leading to instability in those areas, the Washington Post columnist wrote in his column. After a new report suggest more U.S Special Forces are to be sent to Pakistan.
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