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Benazir Bhutto can identify jihadist carry bomb-strapped child?



Given the unbridled ambitions of Benazir Bhutto to reclaim power in Pakistan, do investigators in Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party have any credibility in their statement that the bomb intended to kill their leader was strapped to a one-year-old child?

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Investigators say they believe that the bomb, which killed 170 people and left hundreds more wounded on Bhutto’s dramatic return to Pakistan, was strapped to a one-year-old child carried by its jihadist father. “They said the suicide bomber tried repeatedly to carry the baby to Ms. Bhutto’s vehicle as she drove in a late-night calvalcade through the streets of Kaarachi.” (www.theaustraliannews.com, Nov. 21, 2007). “At the point where the bombs exploded, Benazir Bhutto herself saw the man with the child and asked him to come closer so that she could hug or kiss the infant,” investigqtors were reported as saying. “But someone came in between and a guard felt that the man with the child was not behaving normally. So the child was not allowed to come aboard Benazir’s vehicle. “Ms. Bhutto is said to have told investigators she recalls the face of the man who was carrying the infant. She has asked to see recordings made by television news channels to try to identify the man.” While Bhutto can claim Harvard and Oxford as her alma maters, her degrees are in philosophy, politiics, economics and government, not sleuthing. In the mayhem that greeted her return to Pakistan after an exile of more than a decade, she “recalls the face of the man who was carrying the infant” and wants to see television footage to point him out to authorities? Most convenient, now that none of Pakistan’s independent electronic media is up and running, courtesy of Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Although the venerable New York Times spells it “Pinkie”, In Harvard’s yearbook, Bhutto is called “Pinky”, the nickname famiily and friends supposedly gave her because of her “rosy” complexion. Like many politicians of the day, baby kissing could be part of Bhutto’s repartee, but it should be remembered that she came out of exile and returned to Pakistan to make a deal for power sharing with Gen. Musharraf. There is no doubt that Benazir Bhutto is wily by half. The money laundering corruption of her past has been well chronicled by Canada Free Press (CFP) celebrated Pakastini writer Hamid Mir and award-winning Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, among others. It cost 170 people their lives and hundreds more their wounds when Bhutto took herself out of exile to return to the Pakistan she led as prime minister from 1988 to 1996. Re-elected in 1996, she never finished her term gong into exile insttead and leaving her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, languishing at home in prison for eight years. Benazir Bhutto can finger the jiihadist thrusting forward the suiicide bomb baby? There are some who think Pinky is having the rest of us on.


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Judi McLeod -- Bio and Archives -- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

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