Bhutto Assassinated

[Glockmatic]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/pakistan_bhutto_anger_dc

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan put its paramilitary forces on "red alert" across the country on Thursday after the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto sparked violent protests by her supporters.

President Pervez Musharraf denounced what he called a terrorist attack and appealed for calm after angry backers of the slain former prime minister took to the streets across Pakistan, from the Himalayas to the southern coast.

The unrest was predictably fiercest in her native Sindh province and its capital, Karachi.

"Police in Sindh have been put on red alert," said a senior police official. "We have increased deployment and are patrolling in all the towns and cities, as there is trouble almost everywhere."

Reports said security was deteriorating in Karachi, where thousands poured on to the streets to protest. At least three banks, a government office and a post office were set on fire, a witness said.

Tires were set on fire on many roads, and shooting and stone-throwing was reported in many places. Most shops and markets in the city shut down.

At least 20 vehicles were torched in the central Sindh town of Hyderabad.

There were also small protests in Rawalpindi and the nearby capital, Islamabad.

Protesters blocked roads with burning tyres and chanted slogans against President Pervez Musharraf in Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistani Kashmir in the mountainous north.

Police said they had been ordered to block the main road between Punjab province and Sindh province, apparently to stop the movement of protesters.

Disturbances were also reported in the southeastern city of Multan, although details were sketchy. In the eastern city of Lahore, Bhutto party workers burnt three buses and damaged several other vehicles, police said.

Trouble was reported from the interior of Sindh province, including the Bhutto ancestral home at Larkana, police said.

"The situation is not good in the interior of Sindh. A large number of people have come out on the roads in many cities to protest," said senior police official Fayyaz Leghari.

Who's up for a civil war in a nuclear armed country?

 

[Farzin]

I think we all saw that one coming. At least i did.

Let's hope this doesn't turn into a civil war but the way things are looking it's heading down that direction.

 

[dillaxx]

this is gay.. was it the us that gave them the nukes? im worried about the indians next door...

 

[Farzin]

^Indian scientist sold the technology to the highest bidder or something like that.

Don't worry about the indians they have nukes too lol. They had it before Pakistan.

 

[Glockmatic]

Pakistan began a nuclear program in response to the Indian nuclear program. They received resources and technology from China. The good thing is the US has been helping Pakistan safe-guard their nukes, bad thing is the US can't fight another war if the Pakistani military decides to take over the country and its nukes and create a nuclear armed Theocracy.

 

[dillaxx]

^Indian scientist sold the technology to the highest bidder or something like that.

Don't worry about the indians they have nukes too lol. They had it before Pakistan.

lol, im indian... i knew we had them... you still dont want your own people, let alone any people, be killed like that.. but i didnt know it was an indian scientist... weird...

and supposedly osama is in pakistan right? i know it was a while ago, but if the people there kept him hidden, then he def. is gonna come back there if he isnt there allready... and start fucking around again...

 

[Jeremy]

That really made me sad this morning.

 

[Rahim]

i was watching the news early morning today and saw this..pretty messed up....there were people lying on the ground.....there was a riot going on..but hey..thats what u can expect when your prime minister gets killed and ur living in Pakistan

 

[Rahim]

edit double post

 

[The.Menace]

^Indian scientist sold the technology to the highest bidder or something like that.

I think that story was sellin' secrets to korea, right...I think you get two stories mixed up, I think the pakis did develop their nukes themself (with help from china maybe etc, dunno) ..... but if I remember correctly that Indian dude didn't sell to the pakis.... anyone can confirm it?

Anyway, back to topic, I'll just quote Jermey.

That really made me sad this morning.

 

[Farzin]

^Hmm you might be right and if i wasn't tired I'd confirm it myself. I wasn't quiet sure how they got it.

 

[hizzle?]

Anyway, back to topic, I'll just quote Jermey.

I'll quote you.

 

[Mo_Murda]

I personally think Bhutto was a dumbass to stick her head out the sunroof as she was leaving, she's in a bullet proof vehicle, she already did what she had to do... Then she pops out of hte only unprotected area of the vehicle, doing shit like that especially when you know people are after you is retarded...

 

[Mo_Murda]

There's an update, apparently she didn't die from the gunshots

Authorities on Thursday had told the Associated Press that Bhutto died from bullet wounds fired by a young man who then blew himself up, killing 20 other people. A surgeon who treated her said Friday she died from the impact of shrapnel on her skull.

But later Friday, Cheema said all three shots missed her as she greeted supporters through the sunroof of her vehicle, which was bulletproof and bombproof.

He also denied that shrapnel caused her death, saying Bhutto was killed when she tried to duck back into the vehicle, and the shock waves from the blast knocked her head into a lever attached to the sunroof, fracturing her skull.

Cheema showed a videotape of the attack, with Bhutto waving, smiling and chatting with supporters from the sunroof as her car sat unmoving on the street outside the rally.

Three gunshots rang out, the camera appeared to fall, and the tape ended.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-12-28-bhutto_N.htm