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Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
Interesting except that it dodges the very important fact that Bhutto looted her own country, yet she still had a huge following from the lootees themselves and authors of articles like these treat this fact like the elephant in the room that it is. A frank discussion of the state of Pakistan would include this phenomenon.
On a related note, it's hard to believe you could have a body right in front of you and one person saying there's a bullet in it and another person saying there is not. And both sources are as "official" as the other. The government has offered to exhume the body. I don't quite get the "reason" Bhutto's party declined -- did you catch it? Anyhow, why the importance of whether she died dodging a bullet or taking one?
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I gather that the government is trying to minimize its own blame in failing to prevent her killing, but I don't really see why it matters. I read her husband as saying that the official autopsy would be a sham in any event, which seems like a fair point. What's needed is an independent inquest, but Musharraf has locked up most of the judges.
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