Bhutto was shot - Musharaff's government is lying

Here is a U-Tube version of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

• Three gunshots before the bomb went off.


• The shooter walked right up behind the SUV, although there were three security guards there.


• The bomber was also right next to the car, in spite of the security guards.


• The reporter states that Bhutto had asked for American or British security guards, but Musharraf refused to let her use them.


• The early reports from the hospital all state the Bhutto had been shot at least twice. Then, suddenly, the hospital changed its story to the strange story that Ms. Bhutto fell against a latch for the sunroof when the bomb went off. However, this video clearly shows that she fell inside the car before the explosion.


• There was also no blood on the latch against which she was said to have struck her head.


• Rawalpindi, the city in which Bhutto was assassinated, is the headquarters of the Pakistani Army and is considered a garrison city.


• Musharraf was, until forced to resign to remain President a very short time ago, the Chief of Staff of the Army.

The government is clearly concealing something that would embarrass them. Is it that Musharraf called for Bhutto's assassination himself, or is it that someone in the Pakistani Army went behind his back and conducted the assassination?

It seems to me that the second choice would call for a scapegoat criminal to be caught and killed, rather than the strange lies that the government has been telling.

There is sure to be more coming out. At the very least, no one in Pakistan is going to believe anything Musharraf or his government says. That will require his replacement or a really sharp crackdown by Musharraf. In either case, his government has no remaining credibility.

That's what it looks like to me as a distant outsider. If someone who has further facts has a different read on the story, I will be very interested in hearing it.