{"id":2538,"date":"2007-12-27T16:18:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T16:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2007-12-28T03:13:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T03:13:13","slug":"assassinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2538","title":{"rendered":"Assassinated!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Former Prime Minister of Pakistan <strong>Benazir Bhutto<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20071227\/ap_on_re_as\/pakistan\">is dead at the hands of a suicidal-assassin<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" width=\"255\" src=\"http:\/\/patdollard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/abhutto1.jpg\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Responsibility has not yet been claimed but suspicion for Bhutto&#8217;s death will swiftly be put at the door of Islamist elements within the Pakistani military, particularly the ISI.\u00a0 In my humble opinion, cooperation between agents of ISI and al Qaida-Taliban terrorists in assassinating Bhutto should not be ruled out.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Bhutto was neither as democratic nor as pro-American as her P.R. in the MSM implied and her party&#8217;s endemic addiction to\u00a0corruption helped bring the military to power on numerous occasions in Pakistan&#8217;s history. That being said,\u00a0the death of Benazir Bhutto\u00a0is a significant destabilizer for a nuclear club nation that perpetually teeters on the brink of state failure.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>ADDENDUM:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Some Bhutto posts by respected blogfriends and other pundits:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/breaking-news-in-pakistan.html\">The NewsHoggers<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/weblog\/2007\/12\/bhuttos_assassination.html\">Thomas P.M. Barnett<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/soobdujour.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/benazir-bhutto.html\">Soob<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tdaxp.com\/archive\/2007\/12\/27\/uppity-muslim-woman-killed-someone-is-surprised.html\">tdaxp<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/turcopolier.typepad.com\/sic_semper_tyrannis\/2007\/10\/what-are-the-od.html\">Sic Semper Tyrannis<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wolfpangloss.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/27\/the-assassins-got-benazir-bhutto\/\">Wolf Pangloss<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mountainrunner.us\/2007\/12\/reactions_to_bhutto.html\">MountainRunner<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/benazir-bhutto-assassinated-up\/\"> SWJ Blog<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nykrindc.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/breaking-news-benazir-bhutto-killed-in.html\">New Yorker in DC<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/what-died-with-benazir-bhutto.html\">Belmont Club<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/futurejacked.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/pakistan-mourning.html\">Futurejacked<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/theglitteringeye.com\/?p=3388\">The Glittering Eye<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto is dead at the hands of a suicidal-assassin. Responsibility has not yet been claimed but suspicion for Bhutto&#8217;s death will swiftly be put at the door of Islamist elements within the Pakistani military, particularly the ISI.\u00a0 In my humble opinion, cooperation between agents of ISI and al Qaida-Taliban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,499,210,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-islamic-world","category-islamist","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}