Bhutto Assassination - Spillover

I neglected to comment on the conveniently-timed assassination of Benazir Bhutto, coming as it did just weeks before an conflicted electorate was to go to the polls in Pakistan. I blame my slacktardery on the failed policies of the Clinton Administration.

Today, of course, the Pakistani government declared that her assassination was the handiwork of al Qaeda.

“We have the evidence that al-Qaida and Taliban were behind the suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto,” Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said.

The government also reported that Bhutto died from a skull fracture suffered when her head slammed against her car during a suicide attack — not from bullet wounds.

Certainly, the shifting stories of how she died (bullet, bomb, "hit her head"), not at all complicated by any political motivations, it is clear that this is not a simple politically-motivated assassination, but rather a devious al Qaeda plot.

As luck would have it, we now discover that the government is freaking over repurcussions spilling over into Afghanistan. Thank you, BushAdmin!!!

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