Comments on: Benazir Bhutto Murdered: Al-Qaeda Claims Killing

By: coolandcalm

coolandcalm — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:19:13 +0000

The future looks scary for the whole world right now. Instability, Al Quaeda and and atomic weapons are a deadly combination.
Frederick Forsyth wrote an insightful feature in the Express today that is well worth a read (page 4 if you’re sneaking into the newsagents for a free read)

I can see this impacting on all of this.

Meanwhile there are her two daughters…… so sad.

By: Sonya Khan

Sonya Khan — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:39:28 +0000

I Think this is really sad. im only 15 and i really am sad. i feel so sorry for her. she was a role model. and i feel sorry for her family nad her background history was really bad aswell. what they did to her father. and now its happened to her. why are there nasty people in this world. she was a sucessfull woman. The people who did it surely should feel ashamed of theirselves and should be punished. i heard on the news that were the scene accoured they have staarted to clean it up and they have washed the blood away, why have they done that for when they could use that as proof and evidence and it would of helped them for forensic tests. REST IN PIECE

By: chenier

chenier — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:41:56 +0000

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Anorak Says:

December 27th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Who dunnit?

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Well, according to the Guardian there is a very, very long list.

It’s easy to say that her security should have done a better job, but the reality is that if someone is prepared to die in the attempt to kill you then, unless you cut yourself off almost completely from other human beings, you will be killed.

Sooner or later.

I think she knew that perfectly well and had hoped that it would be later…

By: Gloria Smudd

Gloria Smudd — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:33:24 +0000

Sadly, the UK news has focussed on her being left un-protected to such an attack and several journalists have spent most of the day interviewing people who may or may not be able to say that her personal protection was inadequate today - clearly her personal protection today did not prevent her being killled by our UK mid afternoon. If there was one thing that Benazir Bhutto was sure of every time she made a public appearance it was her risk of assassination, and in the weeks since she was released from house-arrest, she knew that she was open from any and all sides open to assassination, because betrayal must have been part of her day-to-day diary-management - she just had to trust the people she was working with and sadly, today we found out that they just weren’t good enough to keep her alive. She is gone and tomorrow everyone who is in the least bit interested in Pakistan politics ought to research it as closely as they can, because her death means that a huge obsticle in the parliamentary debate against the Pakistanti international weapons alliance has just been torn apart by a bullet.

By: Anorak

Anorak — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:27:33 +0000

Who dunnit?

By: chenier

chenier — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:18:24 +0000

Actually, I think very few people have that kind of courage, and even fewer are politicians. It is, as I said, vanishingly rare.

For her family it’s a dreadful personal loss, but the question we are left with is the full blown nightmare of a state with nuclear weapons which has, over the years, shown little inclination to tackle the rise of fundamentalism.

And no, I’m not talking about the United States, though if the cap fits…

Bush’s attempt to cultivate Benazir came very late in the day, and it doesn’t look as if there is anyone waiting in the wings.

But in the short term, at least, we can pay our respects to the memory of a woman who could so easily have lived out the privileged life of a wealthy socialite and chose instead to try and bring hope to people who lived in awful deprivation…

By: Gloria Smudd

Gloria Smudd — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:58:39 +0000

chenier

Isn’t that the most applauded action of the true politician? To walk towards certain danger to say out loud that there is an alternative to the established norm? She knew, full well, especially after the attempt on her life in October and for many years before that, that she would be a target, but she has been in our time one of the few politicians in a dangerous political world to stand there time and time again to challenge the existing political structure and offer herself as an alternative (including the target of assassination.)

By: Anorak

Anorak — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:53:58 +0000

Courage - she had it

By: chenier

chenier — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:52:48 +0000

I would suggest that Benazir Bhutto knew very well what her likely fate was, and walked to meet it anyway.

That sort of cold-blooded courage is vanishingly rare in a world which is in desperate need of it.

By: Gloria Smudd

Gloria Smudd — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:49:50 +0000

Too true Anorak, too true. I have even commented that the McCann board is trivial compared to this sad obliteration of Pakistan’s best international political hope, but there are too many to-the-second-timings and *extra 3-year-olds* to discuss. I’m as guilty as anyone on the McCann boards, if I have any time to spare I will trawl them for cluelets till my ears begin to bleed, but I think that there are posters on the other boards who surely mind about this? More people seem prepared to comment on AbiAnothterToplessModel’s tit count than this story. But, again, Annie Hall’s “La-dee-dah” because it’s apparently not worth a thought, let alone a key-stroke.

By: Anorak

Anorak — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:16:05 +0000

i made two - Anorak needs to liven up. A great woman is murdered

By: Gloria Smudd

Gloria Smudd — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:10:43 +0000

Two threads about democracy in Pakistan and only 7 responses between them. An I made three of them. Laa-di-dah.