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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Pakistan's whodunnit

Two interesting bits on who may have been behind the Bhutto killing. First the NYTimes,
United States intelligence analysts are not convinced by the evidence offered so far by Pakistani authorities that a militant linked to Al Qaeda was responsible for Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, American officials said Tuesday.

But, buried deeply in an AsiaTimes piece is a different "suspect" and a report of a US response.
On the advice of Sheikh Essa, militants have tried several times to assassinate Musharraf, launched attacks on the Pakistani military, and then declared Bhutto a target.

This nest of takfiris and their intrigues was on the radar of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the day after Bhutto's killing Sheikh Essa was targeted by CIA Predator drones in his home in North Waziristan. According to Asia Times Online contacts, he survived, but was seriously wounded. Sheikh Essa had only recently recovered from a stroke which had left him bedridden.

I have no idea, but I thought it was interesting.

7 Comments:

  • These aerial drones have become the American version of death squads. Our dirty little secret. But how secret? Do we even pretend to be a moral, law abiding nation anymore?

    By Blogger -epm, at 9:12 AM  

  • If I read that right, that was in Afghanistan, so, not so secret.

    There was an AP on the huge and growing use of drones in Iraq, 500,000 hours in the air.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080102/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/unmanned_killers_11

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 10:39 AM  

  • It's probably deliberate. The idea is to keep the bad guys nervous.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:22 AM  

  • Yeah, and they're incredibly useful.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 1:17 PM  

  • And someone makes a lot of money building them.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:19 PM  

  • Oh yeah.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 3:39 PM  

  • I wonder if Dateline or 20/20 will do a piece on drone assassins? Nah. It'd make our their audience uncomfortable.

    By Blogger -epm, at 4:03 PM  

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