Police abandoned security posts before Bhutto assassination

Raw Story by Nick Juliano | Dec. 28, 2007 (Special Report)

Police abandoned their security posts shortly before Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's assassination Thursday, according to a journalist present at the time, and unanswerable questions remain about the cause of her death, because an autopsy was never performed. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Matthew Reibel - Dec 28, 2007 - 7:49 PM PST
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Dwight Rousu
3.8
 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The value of this article among the many others is the allegation that the police left their posts at the rally. The lack of an autopsy was claimed elsewhere by the government to be due to a family request; the story here sounds more likely to me.

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Matthew Reibel
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 by Matthew Reibel - Oct. 1, 2008

Brings to light new questions and confusion about exactly who was behind Bhutto's assassination and how it was carried out.

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