From post #51
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Originally Posted by host
how does Cheema know that Bhutto died from a skull fracture, with no autopsy performed?
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I never thought I would get an answer to the above question, from the Pakistani government, itself, but.....
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Originally Posted by Cheema
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...,7239336.story
Cheema told CNN he based his statement about the sunroof lever "on the initial investigations and the reports by the medical doctors" who treated Bhutto. He said the ministry would wait for forensic investigators to finish their report before making any more conclusions about her cause of death.
<i>"I was just narrating the facts, you know, and nothing less, nothing more," he said Tuesday.</i>
But the medical report—criticized by many as unprofessional and simply clinical notes—said nothing about a sunroof or a latch. There was no autopsy to determine what actually killed Bhutto. Doctors have complained that their statements have been misrepresented by the government and the doctors have gone into hiding,.....
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Sounds familiar????
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President Participates in Social Security Conversation in New York
See, in my line of work <b>you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.</b>
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0050524-3.html
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Maybe the next revision will be that she wasn't killed, after all:
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/P...ow/2666486.cms
Pak govt makes U-turn on cause of Bhutto's death
1 Jan 2008, 1426 hrs IST,PTI
ISLAMABAD: In a dramatic U-turn, Pakistan government has "apologised" for claiming that former premier Benazir Bhutto died of a skull fracture after hitting the sunroof of her car during a suicide attack.
Caretaker Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz Khan has asked the media and people to "forgive and ignore" comments <h3>made by his ministry's spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema</h3> which were slammed by her Pakistan People's Party as "lies" and led to an uproar at home and abroad.
The Interior Minister made the apology during a briefing for Pakistani newspaper editors on Monday.
...The government's apparent damage control exercise on Cheema's comments made at a news conference a day after Bhutto was assassinated at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on December 27, came after TV channels aired privately shot photos and video footage which showed a gunman shooting at Bhutto.
The Pakistan People's Party leader is seen in the footage falling through the sun-roof before the suicide bomber detonated his explosives.
The briefing by caretaker Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro was also attended by the foreign, interior and information ministers and senior officials.....
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Now, the official line is that they only know that they aren't supporting anything that they've previously communicated about how Bhutto was killed. It's amazing to watch a government addressing the press with even less crdibility than our own administration enjoys.....
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/a...ow/2664453.cms
'Bhutto wanted to call Sharif minutes before she died'
31 Dec 2007
...Bhutto was assassinated on December 27 shortly after she addressed an election rally at the historical Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi.
As she left the venue in her bullet-proof vehicle, Bhutto said she wanted to speak to Sharif, but then she heard the “Jeay Bhutto" slogans from her supporters and decided to wave to them from the car's sunroof.
Bhutto's political secretary Nahid Khan reportedly told a mourner that the former premier initially sat in the vehicle and asked for her mobile phone, the Dawn newspaper reported on Monday.
Bhutto said she wanted to call Sharif as she had just learnt that five of his supporters had been killed in an attack as he was also campaigning in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
Khan said when Bhutto fell inside the vehicle after the attack, she thought she had lost her balance and slipped.
"I said 'Bismillah' when BB almost fell into my lap but then to my horror I saw blood oozing out of her head and she was almost unconscious," Khan recalled.
Bhutto had called Sharif a day before her assassination to discuss with him the government's alleged plan for "massive rigging" in the January 8 general elections.
The two leaders had a long telephonic conversation and talked about evolving a joint strategy to foil the rigging plans. She had also sent flowers and a cake to Sharif on his birthday on December 25.
Chief political adviser of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, Safdar Abbasi said Bhutto's last words were "Long live Bhutto".
Bhutto, who was chanting slogans along with her supporters from the sunroof of her vehicle, said "Long live Bhutto" just before she fell.
"She did not say anything more," Abbasi, who is Nahid Khan's husband, recalled.
Recounting the incident, Abbasi said, "All of a sudden there was the sound of firing. I heard the sound of a bullet.
"I saw her: she looked as though she ducked in when she heard the firing. We did not realise that she had been hit by a bullet."
He said he looked up to see Bhutto sliding back through the sunroof just before the vehicle was rocked by a huge explosion.
There was no sound from the 54-year-old Bhutto and Abbasi said he noticed blood seeping from a deep wound on the left side of her neck...
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