Benazir Bhutto Killed

We Are The Terrorists

Stacey Lawson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


Stacey Lawson

There is a necessary reckoning, a collective grappling and grief, which accompanies the assassination of a powerful public figure like Ms. Benazir Bhu...

Bhutto's Doctors Felt Pressure To Adopt Govt Story On Her Death

New York Times | Jane Perlez | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


New details of Benazir Bhutto's final moments, including indications that her doctors felt pressured to conform to government accounts of her death, f...

Bush Has No Plan B For Pakistan

Washington Post | Robin Wright and Glenn Kessler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


For the Bush administration, there is no Plan B for Pakistan. The assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto dramatically altered Pakistan...

Bhutto Tried To Hire US Security Guards, Including Blackwater

Washington Times | Philip Sherwell | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Benazir Bhutto was so fearful for her life that she tried to hire British and American security firms, including Blackwater, to protect her, but Pakis...

2 Suicide Bombers Die In Failed New Attack In Eastern Pakistan

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Two suspected suicide bombers died Sunday when they prematurely detonated their bomb near the residence of a senior leader of the ruling party in east...

New Photos And Eyewitness Accounts Contradict Govt Story

The Telegraph (U.K.) | Massoud Ansari and Julian Kossoff | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


"Long live Bhutto," Benazir Bhutto shouted, waving to the crowd surging around her car. They were her last words before three gunshots rang out and sh...

Indian Press: Pakistan Elections Postponed

Times of India | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The election commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to postpone the January 8 polls in view of the situation in the country after the murder of form...

Pakistan Offers To Exhume Bhutto's Body

The Telegraph (U.K.) | Isambard Wilkinson and Bonnie Malkin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The Pakistan government today offered to exhume the body of Benazir Bhutto, as the row over the murdered opposition leader's cause of death intensifie...

Pakistan Says Turmoil From Bhutto's Death Could Delay Vote

AFP | Nasir Jaffry | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Pakistan indicated Saturday it would delay January elections because of turmoil caused by the death of Benazir Bhutto, as a bitter dispute erupted ove...

Pakistan Rejects Foreign Help In Bhutto Probe

AP | RAVI NESSMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Pakistan rejected foreign help in investigating the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on Saturday, despite controversy over the circumstances of her dea...

Pakistan: Bhutto Died From Skull Fracture, Not Gunshots

AP | MUNIR AHMAD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Pakistan - The Pakistani government said Friday that Benazir Bhutto Bhutto was not killed by gunshots or shrapnel as originally claimed but by a skull...

Clinton Calls For Probe Of Bhutto's Death

Reuters | Ellen Wulfhorst | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Democrat Hillary Clinton called on Friday for an international probe of Benazir Bhutto's killing and candidates in both parties sparred over foreign p...

Pakistani Official: Al-Qaida, Taliban Behind Assassination

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


"We have the evidence that al-Qaida and Taliban were behind the suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto," Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said. Interior Minis...

The New Dark Ages

E. A. Hanks | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


E. A. Hanks

It's bad. Everything everywhere seems bad. I can't help but feel like we're headed into another year of the New Dark Ages. War, famine, pestilence and plague, you name it, we've got it.

Pakistan On The Brink Of Chaos After Assassination

AP | MATTHEW PENNINGTON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


The assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto deals a stunning blow to liberal political forces trying to combat rising Islamic extremism in P...

A Timeline Of Benazir Bhutto's Life

Telegraph | Richard Edwards | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Jun 21, 1953: Born in Karachi 1976: After spending her childhood in Pakistan and embarking on her higher eduction at Harvard, she is elected presiden...

World Leaders Express Outrage Over Bhutto Assassination

Reuters | Matthew Tostevin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


World leaders voiced outrage at the assassination on Thursday of Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and expressed fears for the fate of the n...

Bhutto's Death Deals Blow To US's Diplomatic Efforts

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


The assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has dealt a severe blow to U.S. efforts to restore stability and democracy in a tu...

Benazir Bhutto: Seconds Before Death

NY Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


The Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, just seconds before she was assassinated leaving an election rally near the capital, Islamabad, on Thu...

Richardson to Musharraf: Step Down!

Beverly Davis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Beverly Davis

Denison, Iowa---Democratic presidential hopeful and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson released a statement reacting to the assassination of Pakistan...

Benazir Bhutto: Bush Reacts

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


"To Benazir Bhutto, to her friends, to her supporters, we send our condolences to the families of the others who were killed in today's violence, and ...

Video: Bhutto Talks About The Possibility Of Her Assassination

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Benazir Bhutto spoke about the possibility of her assassination twice to CNN. In these eerie videos, Bhutto said she knew she was putting her life at ...

Bhutto Assassination: '08 Candidates React

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said Thursday the assassination of Benazir Bhutto underscores a need for the U.S. to increase its effo...