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Here’s an on-target column by Australian Pamela Bone on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and the misogynistic Dark Ages mentality that drives Islamist violence: Assassinated because she was a woman. ARE women across the world mourning Benazir Bhutto? They should be. Not because she was a saint; she wasn’t. ...
The latest video of the assassination, from another angle, provides evidence that Benazir Bhutto was killed by an assassin’s bullet. [Video]
LGF, Pakistan, Musharraf, Bhutto, RoP, Radical Islam, Suicide Bomb
An image of one of the assassins of Benazir Bhutto has been shown on Pakistani television.
LGF, Pakistan, Musharraf, Bhutto, RoP, Radical Islam, Suicide Bomb
Some excellent points on the push to “democratize” places like Pakistan, from Andrew McCarthy: Killed by the real Pakistan. Whether we get round to admitting it or not, in Pakistan, our quarrel is with the people. Their struggle, literally, is jihad. For them, freedom would mean institutionalizing the tyranny ...
LGF, Pakistan, Musharraf, Bhutto, RoP, Radical Islam, Suicide Bomb
Violence continues in several Pakistan cities, and at least two dozen people are now reported dead: Pakistan mourns Bhutto, unrest kills 23. Furious supporters rampaged through several cities, in violence that left at least 23 dead less than two weeks before crucial elections. Some wept, others chanted “Benazir is ...
LGF, Pakistan, Musharraf, Bhutto, RoP, Radical Islam, Suicide Bomb
Curious news from Pakistan, where some of the doctors at the hospital where Benazir Bhutto was taken say that she was not killed by bulllets or bomb shrapnel, but by a head injury. She was standing in her car with her upper body out of the sun roof; Bob Owens ...
LGF, Pakistan, Musharraf, Bhutto, RoP, Radical Islam, Suicide Bomb
Here’s a change of pace from Scott Ott of Scrappleface, a non-satirical piece on the awful meaning of the Benazir Bhutto assassination: Bhutto Killing Puts EuroLeaders On Notice: Time to Choose.
LGF, Scrappleface, Scott Ott, Pakistan, Bhutto, Assassination, Islam
Ron Paul blames the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on the “interventionist” policy of the United States, and says Al Qaeda is justified in being “annoyed” at us. (Click the picture for the video.)
LGF, Pakistan, Musharraf, Bhutto, RoP, Radical Islam, Suicide Bomb, Ron Paul
Here’s a video clip from UK Channel 4 on the Bhutto assassination, and the immediate aftermath in Pakistan. [Video] UPDATE at 12/27/07 12:58:48 pm: Breaking news from Pakistan: all flights have been canceled, shops and banks closed, and paramilitary forces are being deployed as riots begin to break out... ...
LGF, Pakistan, Musharraf, Bhutto, RoP, Radical Islam, Suicide Bomb
Good coverage in English of the Bhutto assassination at NDTV.com. Reactions at National Review, from Jonathan Foreman, Victor Davis Hanson, Mansoor Ijaz, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Stanley Kurtz, Bill Roggio, and Henry Sokolski: After Bhutto. UPDATE at 12/27/07 12:13:55 pm: Here’s another source with streaming video from India, in English.
LGF, Pakistan, Musharraf, Bhutto, RoP, Radical Islam, Suicide Bomb
Bad news from Pakistan. The Islamists kept trying until they finally succeeded in murdering Benazir Bhutto. RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at the end of a campaign rally, aides said. The death ...
LGF, Pakistan, Musharraf, Bhutto, RoP, Radical Islam, Suicide Bomb
Another attempt by Islamists to murder Benazir Bhutto, this time using a 15-year old boy. POLICE in Pakistan have stopped a 15-year-old boy they say was carrying a bomb made of dynamite and nails from getting into a rally by opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. The boy got past the ...
LGF, Pakistan, Musharraf, Bhutto, RoP, Radical Islam, Suicide Bomb
At least 50 people murdered in a suicide bombing in a mosque at the “residential compound” of a top Pakistani official. The bombing, which came during the Islamic holy day of Eid al-Adha, left a scene of carnage at the mosque at the politician’s residential compound in Sherpao, a ...
LGF, Pakistan, Musharraf, Bhutto, RoP, Radical Islam, Suicide Bomb
In an effort to get close enough to murder Benazir Bhutto, one of the Islamist attackers reportedly strapped his explosives to a one-year old infant. Meanwhile, horrifying new details emerged last night of the attempt by suicide bombers to kill Ms Bhutto on her return home from exile last ...
Pakistani Islamist cricket champion Imran Khan has been arrested on terror charges—and interestingly, the Jamaat-i-Islami party helped to capture him. The Musharraf military government has deep connections with Islamist groups. The cricketing legend Imran Khan faces charges under Pakistani anti-terrorist laws after emerging from hiding today to join a ...
As the “emergency” situation in Pakistan continues, Benazir Bhutto has been placed under house arrest again, and hundreds of her supporters have been rounded up. LAHORE, Pakistan - Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest for the second time in four days to prevent her staging a ...
General Pervez Musharraf has suspended Pakistan’s constitution, halted all television broadcasts and suspended telephone service in Islamabad, and declared a state of emergency. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan on Saturday, suspending the constitution, replacing the chief justice before a crucial Supreme ...
Eight more dead at the hands of a suicide bomber, but the Pakistani military took out 70 “militants:” Pakistan in turmoil as 78 die in fresh violence. SARGODHA, Pakistan (AFP) - A suicide bomber on Thursday killed eight Pakistan air force personnel while 70 militants died in clashes, amid ...
Scrappleface has breaking news on a statement from Nancy Pelosi: Pelosi Slams Muslim Ideology Behind Bhutto Blast. (2007-10-19) — As the death toll climbed past 130, with nearly 400 injured, in a suicide-bomb assassination attempt on former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned the ...
The death toll in today’s Islamic terror attack in Pakistan: 123. KARACHI, Oct 19 (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 123 people on Friday in an attack on former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto as she was driven through Karachi to greet supporters on her return ...
At Daily Kos, they’re already blaming President Bush for the assassination attempt on Benazir Bhutto: Daily Kos: BREAKING: Assassination attempt on Pakistani former PM, many dead. Some comments: Look at Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, Pakistan.... Bush has destabalized the entire Middle East! ... Bush has destabilized the world with the ...
Benazir Bhutto has returned to Pakistan, and the Religion of Peace™ wasted no time trying to murder her: 2 blasts hit near Bhutto in Pakistan. KARACHI, Pakistan - Two explosions went off Thursday night near the truck carrying former premier Benazir Bhutto during her procession through Karachi, wounding several ...