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ChavWivaLawDegree

ChavWivaLawDegree

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I have just put radio 4 on to hear the news, but they haven't mentioned it yet. OMG I can't beleive she's been assasinated. Watching the situation develop over the past couple of months has been awful. I never thought Musharaf would have the front to actually get rid of her. I'm totally shocked.
atila the gooner

atila the gooner

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I like others here, feel that there was almost a sad inevitability about this. What makes me really sad is that the people of this nation will almost certainly suffer as a result, or will be needlessly killed. Things like this make we ashamed to be part of the human race. May our gods help us all.
Michael Palaeologus

Michael Palaeologus

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I saw it as a headline in the Standard on the train.


Shocked? Yes. Surprised? No. She was too popular and too much of a threat to the military status quo - they did after all kill her Father.


It will no doubt be blamed on Islamic fundamentalists, but I suspect that others sit behind this act.

Michael Palaeologus

Michael Palaeologus

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On the Today programme this morning somebody noted that she has promised the USA that, if she became Head of State, she would send the military into the Tribal Areas, the border area with Afghanistan without Government control, to chase the Taliban out.


Pak Army dont want that because they are more interested in their historic quarrel with India and see such anti-terrorist warfare as very costly and there are also strong anti-american elements within the armed forces. The Taliban obviously dont want to fight the Pak Army.


In the current situation, I think that her murder was almost inevitable.

Keef

Keef

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They also said that some one from the al Qaeda in Afghanistan had claimed responsibility as she was "an American tool". How acurate that is they don't know yet.


The thing is, surely it had to have been extreamists, as who else would be happy to blow themselves up after doing the job?

mockney piers

mockney piers

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The thing is the Taliban were basically created by the ISI (Pakistan's MI5) as a tool for getting rid of their (and the CIA's) previous fella in Afghanistan, Gulbaddin Hekmatyar, who unfortunately had a penchant for killing anyone and everyone.


So their influence with the Taliban should not be underestimated, and using them to bump off a mutual enemy should not be discounted either. All really rather depressing and the future is worryingly uncertain. Thank god it's not a nuclear armed country......doh!!

Jah Lush

Jah Lush

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I for one am not shocked by this dreadful assassination. It was so inevitable. Civil war beckons. The people will vote with their feet, arms, legs, teeth and toenails. I fear for Pakistan and all its people. Oh and by the way Mockney they are a nuclear armed country.
mockney piers

mockney piers

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Most people are saying it's a slip of the tongue, that she meant Daniel Pearl. Easy enough to do.

I saw a debate on this elsewhere and the one interesting thing that could be teased out of a lot of tin-foil-hat nonsense was that the FBI have never indicted him with 11th of the 9th, whereas they did for the '93 car bombings of the towers. Most don't credit him personally as the mastermind anyhow, more of a spiritual figurehead rather than tactical one.

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