The Silver State Chronicles

Bringing Civilization to an Uncivilized World II

I noted on January 2nd, 2008 that Scotland Yard was asked to help with the investigation into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Well, today we get the word that Scotland Yard corroborates the much maligned (and somewhat ridiculed) conclusion of the Pakistani authorities.

The venerable Associated Press reports…

The British investigators’ report, released Friday after a 2 1/2-week investigation, concluded that Bhutto suffered a fatal head injury when the force of a blast from a suicide bomber hurled her against a lever on the roof of her armored vehicle.

British investigators ruled out that the head injury could have been caused by a bullet. Pakistan’s government announced a similar conclusion shortly after Bhutto’s killing, which occurred Dec. 27 at the end of a political rally in Rawalpindi.

Of course, Bhutto’s disciples and family have their doubts…

Bhutto’s party has insisted that the former prime minister was shot and suspects a government cover-up because she had accused President Pervez Musharraf’s political allies of plotting to kill her.

“We disagree with the finding on the cause of the death,” said Sherry Rehman, spokeswoman for the Pakistan Peoples Party, who escorted Bhutto to hospital after the attack. “She died from a bullet injury. This was and is our position.”

“This gives us all the more reason for a United Nations probe to know the perpetrators, financiers, sponsors and organizers of the this crime,” she said.”We are looking for more than the hand that pulled the trigger.”

As if the UN is a credible body! When they figure out what’s going on in the Sudan, call me!

In any event, realize the Bhutto family, friends, and fans have a big political stake in undermining the existing government in Pakistan. I can’t see what Scotland Yard would shill for the Paki government.

This case is closed, but the Bhutto people can’t seem to grasp the straightforward concept that denial just ain’t a river in Egypt!

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Bringing civilization to an uncivilized world

Woke up this morning to the best news I have heard all year.

The AP reports from Pakistan…

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday that he had requested a team of investigators from Britain’s Scotland Yard to assist in the investigation into the killing of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.”

We decided to request a team from Scotland Yard to come. I sent the request to (British) Prime Minister (Gordon) Brown, and he accepted the request,” Musharraf said, adding that the British team would assist local investigators.

“We would like to know what were the reasons that led to the martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto. I would also like to look into it,” Musharraf said in a nationally televised address.

Opposition officials have rejected the government’s version of events surrounding Bhutto’s killing in a suicide attack after a rally Thursday and demanded an international investigation.

Musharraf’s nearly 30 minute speech was his first major address since Bhutto’s slaying.

“This is a time for reconciliation and not for confrontation,” he said.

Well, that’s genuinely reassuring. I’m a big fan of Scotland Yard, as well as the United Kingdom’s intelligence agency, MI5. I’m also a big fan of the many fictional British intelligence agencies from movies and tv over all the years!

Now this article doesn’t say if the UK has taken them up on the offer. I hope they do, as that part of the world needs a serious dose of maturity and civilization. And the UK brought it to the region once before. Maybe they can help do it again.

To be fair, I could see them wanting no part of this, and I couldn’t fault them for that reasoned conclusion.

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