Thursday, December 27, 2007
Benazir Bhutto assassinated!
Bhutto at a rally minutes before being assassinated.
Earlier today. Details via the NY Times here.
I wonder how the Bush administration will deal with this (not really a) curve ball (I mean who couldn't have seen this coming after what happened when she first returned to Pakistan)? It's possible that their so-called 'Ally in the War on Terror,' Pakistan's President Musharraf may have had a hand in this yet they still have an Iraq & Iran-focused foreign policy for the region when Pakistan is the country that actually has nuclear weapons and is in real danger of falling into the control of terrorist-sympathizing, Islamic radical-fundamentalists.
BTW: should I read anything into the timing of this murder/attack coming right after reports began to surface that $5 billion of the $10 billion in US military aid sent to Pakistan to help secure the border with Afghanistan and rout out the ('final') remnants of Al Qaeda and the Taliban has gone unaccounted for?
Labels: Benazir Bhutto, GOP incompetence, Pakistan, War on Terror
