Re: [Marxism] The Official Story unfolds in Pakistan

[Jon Flanders <jonflanders@xxxxxxxxx>]

And then there's the PPP version, quite different. But what's important
is what the US public will believe, which is what lies behind the
building of the edifice of propaganda around this event.

That's what I saw on my local news summary tonight. A clear
justification for continuing to support the phony election and Musharraf
because it was Al Quaeda after all. The War of Terror must go on.

Jon Flanders




http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22983841-5012747,00.html



A TOP aide to slain Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has
rejected the government's explanation of her death as a "pack of lies".
The Pakistan interior ministry said Bhutto died when she hit her head on
her vehicle's sunroof as she ducked after a gun and suicide attack on a
campaign rally, and that no bullets or shrapnel were found in her.

"It is baseless. It is a pack of lies,'' said Farooq Naik, Bhutto's top
lawyer and a senior official in her Pakistan People's Party.

"Two bullets hit her, one in the abdomen and one in the head.

"Bhutto's personal secretary Naheed Khan and party official Makhdoom
Amin Fahim were in the car and they saw what happened.

"It is an irreparable loss and they are turning it into a joke with such
claims. The country is heading towards civil war.''

Interior ministry spokesman Javed Cheema said earlier that the
post-mortem on the populist opposition leader found her mortal wound
came when she tried to duck after the bomber attacked. 
He said the bomber fired at her but missed, and that her critical injury
came when she hit the lever of the sunroof of the car she was in, as she
waved to supporters after a campaign rally on Thursday.


"The lever struck near her right ear and fractured her skull,'' Cheema
said.

"There was no bullet or metal shrapnel found in the injury.''

He said intelligence services intercepted a call from a top al-Qaeda
figure for Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud, who he said was behind the attack
as well as a suicide bombing on Bhutto's homecoming rally in October
that killed 139 people.

"The government is now claiming that Baitullah Mehsud is responsible,''
Naik said. "What is the evidence?''

He added: "She was taken to hospital. She was bleeding. It was a serious
security lapse.''

Bhutto's death has unleashed a wave of unrest in Pakistan, with at least
33 people killed and countless buildings and vehicles torched.

Hundreds of thousands of people attended her funeral Friday.

Many mourners blamed President Pervez Musharraf, whose popularity has
been plummeting, for at the least failing to protect her.

The government has said that Bhutto had been given warnings that
Islamist militants were out to get her. Cheema, the interior ministry
spokesman, told AFP earlier Friday that Bhutto was on an Al-Qaeda "hit
list'






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