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2008-01-07 India-Pakistan

Scotland Yard team suspects sniper might have shot Benazir

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Posted by Fred 2008-01-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 A sniper with a pistol three feet behind her.

Posted by gorb 2008-01-07 03:18|| 2008-01-07 03:18|| Front Page Top

#2 "I think it's more complex than that."
-Brian, Half-Baked.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-01-07 08:01|| 2008-01-07 08:01|| Front Page Top

#3 OK, between this piece and the one above, we need a picture of an arcade wheel with different causes of death on it as a graphic for future assassination stories. Any good photoshopper out there up for it?

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-01-07 09:13|| 2008-01-07 09:13|| Front Page Top

#4 This sounds like the first of, oh - let's say seven steps until some government issues some announcement connecting the dots back to an inside job. Maybe double the steps since it will take quite an explanation to clarify all the double-dealing, rings within rings mysteries of Pak society and officialdom.

Still - an initial leak (note the source is a local police officer) if undenied, indicates the professionals first inclination points to a fairly specific trail of evidence pretty far afield of the various stories the locals have floated, and I mean the locals on both sides of the "did so, did not" arguments.

Did Perv order it? Probably not.

Could Perv have done anything if he knew? Prolly not.

Was it an inside job? Maybe/Prolly/could be.

Who's in charge? Hope that's really what Scotland Yard is looking into.

Posted by Chusong Grundy6409 2008-01-07 15:38|| 2008-01-07 15:38|| Front Page Top

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