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Media Claims Two Snipers, Five Bullets, One Suicide Bombing

Pakistan TV has aired footage which reportedly shows a gunman near Bhutto’s vehicle shooting her

Benazir Bhutto escaped at least four assassination attempts in only ten weeks, including the one that ‘welcomed’ her back to Pakistan, killing more than 140 people, injuring hundreds more, in October.

Whoever put the contract out on Bhutto made sure she wasn’t going to escape again.

Thaindia is now claiming that Bhutto was targeted by more than one gunman :

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, 54, was shot at and killed by at least two snipers before a suicide bomb attack on the periphery of her carcade.

Police confirmed that the snipers fired five bullets from AK-47 assault rifles. Two of the bullets hit Benazir in the neck, while a third hit her forehead. No one was near her car when the shots were fired at her. Two of her key political aides, including PPP leader and spokesperson Sherry Rehman and her security aide, were also grievously injured in the attack.

This report could simply be more purposeful disinformation aimed at adding to the general confusion of what happened. Is there enough contradictory versions of what happened floating around in the media now? Take your pick. The assassin in the crowd did it. The sunroof did it. The suicide bomber did it. The two snipers did it.

The only version of events that makes next to no sense is that of the Pakistan government officials. What were they thinking claiming The Sunroof Did It? Even if they believed it was true, they must have known they were going to be mocked? Reporters at a press conference where ‘The Sunroof Did It’ explanation was announced reportedly yelled and abused the Pakistan government official who had to unfurl this extremely dubious explanation.

Of course, all of this confusion doesn’t mean Musharraf did it, but perhaps the world is supposed to be convinced that Musharraf was involved.

It’s impossible to imagine how Pervez Musharraf can hold elections on January 8. But if delays the elections, the streets protests and the standard military crackdown on such protests, will spark exactly the kind of chaos, death tolls, media coverage and general outrage that will likely see him driven from power. With US special forces already set to increase their numbers inside Pakistan, there is the likelihood that China, Iran, Russia and India will also get involved in the aftermath of Musharraf’s downfall.

This is only going to get even uglier.

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