NEW YORK (Online) - Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the orders of the special death squad formed by former US vice-president Dick Cheney, which had already killed the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafique Al Hariri and the army chief of that country.
The squad was headed by General Stanley McChrystal, the newly-appointed commander of US army in Afghanistan. It was disclosed by reputed US journalist Seymour Hersh while talking to an Arab TV in an interview.
Hersh said former US vice-president Cheney was the chief of the Joint Special Operation Command and he clear the way for the US by exterminating opponents through the unit and the CIA. General Stanley was the one in-charge of the unit.
Seymour also said that Rafiq Al Hariri and the Lebanese army chief were murdered for not safeguarding the US interests and refusing US setting up military bases in Lebanon. Ariel Sharon, the then prime minister of Israel, was also a key man in the plot.
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Pakistani murder mystery
A UN report on the killing of Benazir Bhutto makes awkward reading for Pakistan’s army
A FEW days after the murder in December 2007 of Benazir Bhutto, a two-time former Pakistani prime minister, the country's then president, Pervez Musharraf, held a press conference in high spirits. Cracking jokes about his country's famed unruliness, the then dictator dismissed concerns about a hapless police effort to secure evidence and investigate the killing. He suggested Ms Bhutto was partly to blame for having disregarded security warnings. But on Thursday April 15th a high-powered UN report into Ms Bhutto's death took a more critical view of these events. For Mr Musharraf, now living in exile in London, and the Pakistani military establishment he once led, its conclusions should be devastating.
The report finds Mr Musharraf's government guilty of an “inexcusable” failure to provide proper security to Ms Bhutto, who was campaigning for elections at the time of her murder. “Ms Bhutto's assassination,” it says, “could have been prevented if adequate security measures had been taken.”
Worse for Mr Musharraf and the army, the 65-page report accuses his government and its agents of a “deliberate” effort to cover up the circumstances of Ms Bhutto's murder—including hosing down the crime scene less than two hours after the attack and ensuring no post mortem was carried out on Ms Bhutto's body. It also finds that Pakistan's intelligence agencies, including the main army-controlled Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), “severely hampered” investigations into the crime.
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