Key Benazir Bhutto assassination witness shot dead

[Popol Vuh]

The bodyguard of Benazir Bhutto, who was to be a key witness in an investigation into her assassination, has been shot dead.


Khalid Shahenshah, who was the former Pakistan prime minister's security chief at the time of her assassination, was killed in a drive-by shooting as he left his house in the southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, police said.

Mr Shahenshah, 45, was riding in Mrs Bhutto's bullet-proof car when she was killed in a suicide attack in the northern city of Rawalpindi on December 27.

He was expected to be called to give evidence at a United Nations probe into her death.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/2448590/Key-Benazir-Bhutto-assassination-witness-shot-dead.html

[tekisui]

1. The cover-up continues.

What a mess.

[malaise]

4. Indeed

I am almost ready to give up.

[helderheid]

2. K&R goddamnit

[XOEnterprises]

3. Dear god.

How could this possibly be an accident?

[truedelphi]

5. At least we know it wasn't Bin Laden doing the shooting

In her intrview with David Frost, Bhutto had already made public the reality of his being dead.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. With tape recorders and camcorders, why wouldn't a witness leave

the evidence behind as insurance?

[Hydra]

7. At least the world is so easy to read these days

We all have NO IDEA who could have POSSIBLY done this, right?

:puke:

[JDPriestly]

8. You should read "Who Killed Daniel Pearl"?

It's translated from French and therefore not such an easy read, but it gives insight into the relationship between terrorism and the government in Pakistan. The author does not draw clear conclusions but retraced the last days of Daniel Pearl. The book is informative with regard to the culture of terrorism in Pakistan.

[Dover]

9. Surely someone took his statement and recorded his eyewitness account?

As I feel pretty confident that it was anticipated there might be an attempt on his life.

[bluesmail]

10. They recovered the car that his assailants were in. It's a good

start. For political reasons justice may be denied for decades if not indefinitely. So many crimes.