[Marxism] Alan Wood on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto

[Marvin Gandall]

Charles Brown writes:

[...]

> That said, given the whole imperialist ideological framework of a war
> of
> civilizations, and the liberal cover for this as a crusade against
> "Islamo-fascism," doesn't that sort of argue against adopting the kind
> of
> tone and stance implicit in statements like "it was the mullahs,"
> especially
> in an article addressed to a "Western" audience? Or am I missing
> something
> here?
>
> Joaquin
>
> ^^^^^
>
> CB: I don't know if you are missing anything, but this particular
> assassination may have been organized by some of the mullahs, and not
> the CIA , since, there seems to be some evidence, as you say,  that the
> US (and therefore the CIA) supported Bhutto.
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The Pakistani military and security establishment is divided between those
like Musharraf who have aligned themselves with the US and those still
sympathetic to the Taliban, so this may well have been a joint operation
organized by "rogue elements" in the ISI and militant civilian Islamists.
Both groups would have been the most threatened  by a new Bhutto government
pledged to a crackdown on "terrorists" and their allies in the army. I
expect many in Pakistan and elsewhere favour this theory.