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Benazir Bhutto Assassinated: US May Intervene In Investigation
Mr. Musharraf and his supporters in the Bush administration, meanwhile, were coming under increasing pressure, inside and outside Pakistan, to open up the inquiry. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, said Friday that the United States should call for an independent investigation.
"I don't think the Pakistani government at this time under President Musharraf has any credibility at all," she told CNN in an interview. She suggested an investigation along the lines of the ongoing international inquiry into the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
State Department officials said they had no plans for the moment to join the investigation. But a senior Bush administration official said, "There's a growing sense that we're going to have to work on the investigation in some way, that it can't just be a Pakistani investigation."
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue, said that administration officials were concerned that "there's so much distrust" of the Musharraf government among Pakistanis that outside nations may have to join the investigation to give the findings any credibility.
A second administration official said the idea of an independent international investigation had been proposed by "a number of people, and is certainly something that hasn't been ruled out." But, he added, no decision had been made.
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Read about the assassination here.
Watch CNN's Wolf Blitzer discuss an exclusive e-mail he received from Bhutto's spokesman here
Read Bhutto's HuffPost blog, "Why I'm Returning To Pakistan," here
Read Arianna's blog remembering Bhutto, "From the Oxford Union to her Last Rally in Rawalpindi," here
Read a timeline of Bhutto's life here
Watch an earlier CNN video of Bhutto discussing the threats to her life here
Read HuffPost bloggers' response to Bhutto's assassination here
Read Bush's reaction here
Read other candidates' reactions here
Read about how the events in Pakistan may affect US efforts in the region here
Read about how Bhutto's death led Obama's campaign to talk about Clinton's war vote here
Read about al-Qaida and the Taliban's alleged involvement in the attack.
See an X-ray of Bhutto's skull here
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New York Times | CARLOTTA GALL | December 28, 2007 10:20 PM