[Marxism] A face in the crowd: Benazir Bhutto's assassin

[Greg McDonald]

In spite of the best efforts of the propaganda media, factual  
information regarding the assassination of Bhutto is being made  
available to the public. The video which was first shown on the  
Washington Post and later CNN, identifying a gunman firing shots, is  
also being shown repeatedly on Pakistani tv, according to the article  
below. This article also shows two different photos, one of the  
gunman taking aim, and another of the suicide bomber and gunman  
standing together in the crowd before the attack. Two different  
people, working together. The assassin is cleanly shaven with a suit  
and tie, and wears sunglasses, while the bomber is shrouded in white.  
The NY Times, as well as British government spokespersons, say they  
have no reason to doubt the official story of Bhutto's death as an  
accidental concussion, but in this particular case, their crude  
propaganda line has been unmasked immediately by amateur  
videographers and photographers, who have made their media available  
to international tv and print media.

As reported both in the NY Times on Dec. 18th, and the Washington  
Post on Dec. 28th, the Pentagon plans to send US Special Forces to  
train and equip Pakistani tribes to fight against Al Qaeda, in  
another attempt to use proxy forces. According to the Times, there  
are now 50 US Special Forces personnel in the country. The article  
indicates that so far, military efforts to fight militants in these  
isolated tribal areas has met with little success, leading to large  
casualties among Pakistani military and angering the local  
tribespeople, who are renowned for being fiercely independent. They  
are also known for supporting the Taliban, so I imagine the US is  
attempting to bribe them. The separate military force recruited from  
the tribes is called the Frontier Corps, according to the Washington  
Post report. The Post quotes senior US military sources saying that  
there is also a greater willingness among the general staff of the  
Pakistani military to use regular Pakistani Forces in the fight,  
which somewhat contradicts the article from the Times.  And in a  
related report from Democracy Now, US officials admit that much of  
the 5 billion dollars earmarked for the fight against Al Qaeda in  
Pakistan was diverted to finance weapons systems as a deterrent  
against India.

Greg McDonald



A face in the crowd: Benazir Bhutto's assassin

By Massoud Ansari in Ghari Khuda Bakhsh, and Julian Kossoff
Last Updated: 8:19am GMT 30/12/2007

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