Pakistan's Benazai Bhutto buried before true cause of death established...

[LiLWaynE]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brm4IFzcfz4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4DRZMs9SXM


^^ there are some videos in case you have not heard of this...

the reason I am pointing this out is because first they said yesterday that she was shot 3 times... this morning i heard that she was fired at, was not hit, and died because she hit her head on something when she ducked out of the way of fire...

another funny thing is that she was shot yesterday, and IS ALREADY BURIED! ....

what do you guys think??

 

[George Hayduke]

Correct me if I am wrong but in Islam don't they have to bury the dead within 24 hours? I could be wrong so somebody let me know if I am.

 

[LiLWaynE]

just found this... "According to Islamic tradition, funerals should be held as quickly as possible"

 

[LiLWaynE]

Bhutto's body flown home for burial
Posted Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:29am AEDT
Updated Fri Dec 28, 2007 1:32pm AEDT


Ms Bhutto, a two-time prime minister who had hoped to win power again in a January 8 election, was killed by a suicide bomber overnight while leaving an election rally in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, near the capital, Islamabad.

Police officials say Ms Bhutto was shot in the neck by her attacker before he blew himself up in a suicide attack outside the rally.

She succumbed to her injuries in hospital but it is not known if it was the gunshot wound that killed her.

Her body was flown to Sukkur town from Islamabad in a C-130 military aircraft, accompanied by her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, and their three children shortly after they arrived from Dubai.

The body will be taken to her native village of Garhi Khuda Baksh, in Larkana district, where she will be buried next to her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

"They don't want democracy. They don't want me back and they don't believe in women governing nations, so they will try to plot against me," Ms Bhutto said before her death, at the political rally she was attending.

According to Islamic tradition, funerals should be held as quickly as possible. Party officials said they expected the funeral would be held later today.

Her father, the country's first popularly elected prime minister, was toppled by the military in 1977 and later hanged.

Mr Zardari is a businessman and served as a government minister during one of Ms Bhutto's two terms as prime minister in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Ms Bhutto's body was earlier taken from the hospital in Rawalpindi, where she was pronounced dead after the attack, to the airport.

Hundreds of distraught supporters bore her plain wooden coffin aloft from the hospital to an ambulance that took it to Rawalpindi's military airport.



Ms Bhutto returned to Pakistan from an eight-year exile in October and later paid an emotional visit to her native village.


Mourners

Tension was running high in Sindh province and its capital, Karachi, Ms Bhutto's home town.

Witnesses and police say protesters torched dozens of cars and set fire to banks and government offices in several towns and cities.

"People are very angry. They attacked banks and government offices. There were no police anywhere. Two shops selling weapons were also looted," said Maula Baksh, a journalist based in Larkana.

Hundreds of mourners gathered outside Ms Bhutto's ancestral home in the south of Pakistan ahead of her funeral, a local party spokesman said.

"People are coming here individually and in groups, beating their chests and mourning for our leader," said Waqar Mehdi, of Ms Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party.

He says they are massing outside Bilawal House, the family's home in Karachi.

"People are coming here on foot and their number is swelling," Mr Mehdi said.

Paramilitary troops and police also took position in the city, securing key government buildings, provincial police official Mohammad Zubair said.

The interior ministry earlier said that security forces had been put on highest "red alert" to meet any law and order situation.


Lockdown

Meanwhile, Pakistan has ordered all schools, businesses and banks to close down for three days after violence broke out following the assassination.

"All government and private educational institutions, all business and commercial centres and all banks throughout the country shall remain closed for three days with immediate effect," the interior ministry said in a statement.

Earlier, President Pervez Musharraf held an emergency meeting with top officials at the presidency, the information ministry said.

"The President directed the security agencies to take all possible steps to maintain law and order in the country," it said.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has condemned the assassination of Ms Bhutto as a cowardly and evil act, describing it as an attack on the democracy and stability of Pakistan.

"This act, this murder, this assassination of Benazir Bhutto and of many other innocent civilians is a cowardly act," he said.

"It's an evil act, it is deserving entirely of the condemnation of all civilised peoples around the world."

Mr Rudd says he has asked Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith to convey Australia's concerns to his Pakistani counterpart.

"Australia's concern, like other democracies, is for the earliest return to normal democratic processes in Pakistan, and for the restoration of the rule of law in Pakistan," he said.

"That remains the bedrock concern of the Australian Government."

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) has re-issued its travel warning for Pakistan and is recommending Australians stay out of the country.

DFAT says travellers to the region should exercise extreme caution and avoid unnecessary local travel.

The Department says there is a constant stream of credible intelligence about terrorist attacks being planned against western hotels and consulates.

The Australian consulate in Karachi is closed for security reasons.

- AFP/Reuters/ABC

 

[LiLWaynE]

and more....

Head Injury Killed Bhutto, Official Says

Bhutto died from a skull fracture suffered when she hit her head during a suicide attack, not from bullet wounds, the Interior Ministry said Friday.

Authorities on Thursday said she died from bullet wounds fired by a young man who then blew himself up, killing 20 other people. A surgeon who treated her said Friday she died from the impact of shrapnel on her skull.

But later Friday, Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said all three shots missed her as she greeted supporters through the sunroof of her vehicle, which was bulletproof and bombproof.

He also denied that shrapnel caused her death, saying Bhutto was killed when she tried to duck back into the vehicle, and the shock waves from the blast knocked her head into a lever attached to the sunroof, fracturing her skull.

Cheema showed reporters a videotape of the attack, which showed Bhutto waving, smiling and chatting with supporters from the sunroof as her car sat unmoving on the street outside the rally. After, three gunshots rang out, the camera appeared to fall and the tape ended.

Cheema said that an "al-Qaida leader" congratulated his followers for the assassination of Bhutto, who said the government captured the remark by militant leader Baitullah Mehsud in an "intelligence intercept."

Pakistan's government has released a transcript of what it says was an intercepted conversation in which a militant leader claims responsibility for the death of Bhutto.

In the transcript, Mehsud is quoted as saying, "It was a spectacular job." He adds, "They were very brave boys who killed her."

The conversation is said to have been between Mehsud and another militant.

Mehsud is a commander of pro-Taliban forces in a lawless Pakistani tribal region where al-Qaida forces are active. His forces often attack Pakistani security personnel.

This fall, he was quoted in a Pakistani newspaper as saying he would greet Bhutto's return from exile with suicide bombers. He later denied that.

Cheema said Meshud was also behind the Karachi bomb blast in October against Bhutto that killed more than 140 people.

Mehsud is regarded as the commander of pro-Taliban forces in the lawless Pakistani tribal region South Waziristan where al-Qaida fighters are also active.

The FBI and Homeland Security reportedly told U.S. law enforcement agencies Thursday that al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for the assassination of the Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister.

That word came in a bulletin that a law enforcement official summarized for The Associated Press. The official asked to remain anonymous, because he's not authorized to speak publicly about the bulletin.

The bulletin cites Islamist Web sites as the sources of the al-Qaida claim. The sites also say that al-Qaida's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, had planned the assassination. Al-Zawahri decried Bhutto's return in a video message this month and called for attacks on all the candidates in Pakistan's parliamentary elections.

Bhutto had pledged to redouble Pakistan's fight against Islamic militants. She had received threats from virtually all militant groups that make Pakistan their home. That includes al-Qaida and Taliban-style radicals and tribal insurgents along the Afghan border.

 

[George Hayduke]

just found this... "According to Islamic tradition, funerals should be held as quickly as possible"

Right, I wasn't sure if it was Islam or another religion but since you said they buried her the next day I just assumed thats what it was.

 

[Kirby]

Benazir Bhutto is the woman who, just as of last month, said that Osama (bin Dead) was dead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIO8B6fpFSQ [study from 6:10]