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U.N. Investigating Bhutto Murder

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Posted on Jul 1, 2009
Benazir Bhutto
AP photo / Mohammed Javed

Benazir Bhutto arrives on Dec. 27, 2007, at the rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, where she was later assassinated.

It’s been a year and a half since the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and although her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, is now Pakistan’s president, local investigations haven’t produced many answers about her murder. Now a United Nations commission, led by Chilean Ambassador Heraldo Munoz, is conducting its own inquiry.

Al Jazeera English:

Bhutto’s party repeatedly hinted that Musharraf or his allies were involved and demanded a UN inquiry, claiming it was the only way the whole truth would be revealed.

Along with Munoz, the other UN investigators are Marzuki Darusman, a former Indonesian attorney-general, and Peter Fitzgerald, Ireland’s former deputy police commissioner, who headed the initial UN inquiry into the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri, a former Lebanese prime minister, in 2005.

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By hidflect, July 2, 2009 at 10:29 am Link to this comment

Her neck was snapped the day after she revealed to David Frost that Osama Bin Laden was assassinated already. (She was uninjured by the car bomb).Frost heard her say it with his own ears but ignored it and quickly skipped to the next subject. Watch it on Youtube if you like.

No-one finds it odd that a “respected” journalist like Frost whose even been featured in a movie would pass up a scoop like that? Unless he’s obviously signed up to one or other intelligence agencies as an “agent of influence”.

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By boggs, July 2, 2009 at 6:06 am Link to this comment

Why should the UN become involved? Sounds like an american idea to me.
Her murder took place in Pakistan, and should be investigated by Pakistan-UN and US should work on their own problems of corruption.

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By idarad, July 2, 2009 at 4:52 am Link to this comment

As tragic as Bhutto’s murder was, the UN could better spend its efforts curtailing the excesses of Israel and the United States.  Israel’s continued violations of UN resolutions would get any other country blown to bits by the world’s enforcer.

Why not investigate Sudan and its murder of hundreds of thousands?  Should they not investigate the murder of citizens of Columbia, Peru by their own “governments?  Bhutto was murdered by the same group of people she was party to, the connected power elite in Pakistan.  If they find the guilty, it will not bring justice to Pakistan any more than killing Afghanis and Pakistanis will bring back the 3000 Americans killed by the Saudis

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