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| Â Mehsud's role in Benazir murder dubious |
| 2009-08-11 |
| Despite been tagged by the Musharraf regime as the mastermind of Benazir Bhutto's December 2007 gruesome assassination, the involvement of Baitullah Mehsud in the murder of the former premier remains dubious keeping in view the TTP chief's own denials as well as Benazir's declaration shortly before her death that people like Baitullah were mere pawns and what worried her was the threat from within the Musharraf regime. While Benazir had named in her posthumous book Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HUJI) chief Qari Saifullah Akhtar as a key suspect in the Oct 18, 2007 bid to kill her in Karachi, and she had desired in her Oct 20, 2007 email to Wolf Blitzer of the CNN that President Gen Pervez Musharraf should be named as her assassin in the event of her murder. Instead, the Musharraf regime was quick to name Baitullah Mehsud, the Amir of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as the mastermind of the Dec 27, 2007 suicide attack in Rawalpindi that killed Ms Bhutto. Addressing his first press conference after Benazir's murder, Asif Zardari had made public her email to Wolf Blitzer which mentioned the name of her would-be assassin. "The said email should be treated as Bhutto's dying declaration. She talks about her murderers from her grave and it is up to the world to listen to the echoes," Zardari had stated. Benazir Bhutto wrote to Wolf Blitzer in her email: "If it is God's will, nothing will happen to me. But if anything happened to me, I would hold Gen Pervez Musharraf responsible." Blitzer received the email on Oct 26, 2007 from Mark Siegel, a friend of Benazir. That was eight days after she had narrowly escaped a twin suicide attempt on her life in Karachi. Benazir wrote to Wolf: "I have been made to feel insecure by MusharrafÃs minions." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 It was a rogue roof-hatch handle. Everyone knows that |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-08-11 19:06 |