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| Pakistani investigators rebuild mangled head |
| 2007-12-28 |
| ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani investigators reconstructed a mangled human head on Friday hoping to identify the man suspected of killing opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in a suicide attack. "Dr. Frankenstein, call on line two!" Former prime minister Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack as she left an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi on Thursday, plunging nuclear-armed Pakistan into one of the most serious crises in its 60-year history. "We have retrieved a head and it has been reconstructed. We also found fingers and we're carrying out DNA tests to make a comparison between the head and fingers," said Saud Aziz, police chief in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. CSI Islamabad is on the case. I feel sooooo much better. A man shot at Bhutto as she waved to her supporters from the sun-roof of her bullet-proof car. He then blew himself up. Bhutto was killed by gunshots to the head and neck, a security official said. The blast killed 17 other people. A Reuters reporter at the scene moments after the blast saw a portion of a head, including a blackened ear and half a face on the road. Police cordoned it off. "Careful where you step. It could still be alive!" Aziz said samples had been taken from the site for testing to determine what type of explosive had been used. While Aziz declined to speculate on who might have been behind Bhutto's murder, it bore all the hallmarks of strikes by Islamist militants fighting to destabilize the government of U.S. ally President Pervez Musharraf. |
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| #14 Dammit "Spellcheck is your friend" "Spellcheck is your friend" "Spellcheck is your friend" etc. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-12-28 21:25 |
| #13 I recall (many years ago) reacing a very good Science Fiction story about the execution of a mass murderer, they executed him by hanging, then carefuly resurected him, got him back in good health and executed him again, and again, and again, until his sentence of death matched the numbetr of people he'd killed, then they just didn't ressurect him anymore. Sounds very good to me. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-12-28 21:06 |
| #12 Well at least he got his leg-over ( the next houses roof). |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2007-12-28 18:31 |
| #11 Funny, Dan, mine has too. I do have one thing to say to the splodydope: Hey, idiot, you're falling apart here - pull yourself together! |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-12-28 16:44 |
| #10 Friggin' Sympathy Meter is flatlined... |
| Posted by: DanNY 2007-12-28 12:44 |
| #9 partially NSFW Pakistani investigators rebuild mangled head Iraq: Here's a Less-Than-Whole SplodyDope that just survived long enough to answer a couple of questions... Wahhabi al-Qaeda SplodyDope goes boom in Sadr City Of course I have NO sympathy for these ignorant animals no matter how young. The kind of culture and religion that produces this shit, is antithetical to life itself. |
| Posted by: RD 2007-12-28 12:24 |
| #8 Unlike the filthy infidel, the muzzie is very sensitive to personal and collective hygiene. Hosing down a crime scene before the cops collect evidence is a form of muzzie wudu. It's in the koran. Somewhwere. |
| Posted by: Mark Z 2007-12-28 11:43 |
| #7 difficult not to think of rage boy's head in jigsaw like pieces |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-12-28 11:41 |
| #6 Betcha they don't get that much pressure when there's an actual *fire*. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-12-28 10:45 |
| #5 YouTube video of the washing down |
| Posted by: john frum 2007-12-28 10:39 |
| #4 Trace Gallagher, filling in for Shepard Smith today on Studio B spoke with Husain Haqqani, a friend of Benizir Bhutto. Haqqani has also been an advisor to Pakistan ambassadors and is a trusted journalist. Gallagher asked Haqqani if Bhutto was fearful of the security detail. Haqqani said she certainly was. She asked for an international security service and Mushariff said no. Haqqani said that he didn't know if Gallagher had seen the pictures of the crime scene but they had fire engines washing down the crime scene. so that no forensic evidence is left. Huqqani said this made the security feel like "what the heck, if they get her there's no skin off of our nose." |
| Posted by: john frum 2007-12-28 10:36 |
| #3 Brilliant. |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-12-28 10:24 |
| #2 http://in.news.yahoo.com/071228/48/6oybx.html "Bits of the suicide bomber were in the road as well. They were burnt pieces of flesh and others not burnt that were like fresh meat. Red and bloody. "All of a sudden I saw half of a head. It had been sliced in half, vertically. You could only make out the hair and skin. There was nothing else to identify it. "A policeman told me 'That's the head of the bomber'. "I got only a glimpse of white 4x4 that went zooming off. Later people said that was Bhutto's vehicle, and that she was inside, headed to hospital. "Ambulances with flashing lights and sirens came to take away the wounded. It was so chaotic. People were helping lift the injured into the ambulances. "Meanwhile a truck came from the local fire brigade. They took their hoses and started spraying water on the street, trying to wash away the blood and the pieces of flesh. |
| Posted by: john frum 2007-12-28 09:51 |
| #1 Dunno how this squares with John Frum's report that he saw them hosing (!) down the blast scene on teevee... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-12-28 09:40 |