FWIW, the Pak government is finally going with this line:
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Originally Posted by DAWN Newspaper
Pakistan points finger at Al-Qaeda for Bhutto death: spokesman ISLAMABAD, Dec 28 (AFP): The interior ministry said Friday there was “every possibility” the Islamic extremist Al-Qaeda network was behind the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. “Benazir has been on the hit-list of Al-Qaeda,” interior ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema told AFP. “Now there is every possibility that Al-Qaeda is behind this tragic attack to undermine the security of Pakistan.” (First Posted @ 15:00 PST; Updated @ 15:10 PST)
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Notwithstanding my own belief that AQ was involved, one would expect the Pak state to offer this explanation of events anyway, as this is the interpretation whose logical conclusion is the rallying of the population around its leadership and the abandonment or curtailment (for the time being) of oppositional politics.
True or not, I don't think the explanation will be wholly bought, and so for the moment Pakistan will lurch on, a half-crippled body waiting off-balance for the next crisis to knock it off its feet.