Via the NY Times.
“American commanders in Afghanistan have in recent months urged a widening of the war that could include American attacks on indigenous Pakistani militants in the tribal areas inside Pakistan, according to United States officials.
The requests have been rebuffed for now, the officials said, after deliberations in Washington among senior Bush administration officials [...]

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Like we believed it to begin with.
“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 made by [...]

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Disturbing.
“LAHORE, Pakistan ‚Äî New details of Benazir Bhutto‚Äôs final moments, including indications that her doctors felt pressured to conform to government accounts of her death, fueled the arguments over her assassination on Sunday and added to the pressure on Pakistan‚Äôs leaders to accept an international inquiry.
Athar Minallah, a board member of the hospital where Ms. [...]

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It’s apparent that the Pakastani government’s explaination about Benazir Bhutto’s assassination isn’t holding up.
“The Pakistani government has no problem with officials from Benazir Bhutto’s political party exhuming the slain opposition leader’s body if they see a need to do so, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Saturday.
Brig. Javed Iqbal Cheema made the remark when asked about [...]

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UPDATE: The Pakistanis are claiming that Bhutto was not shot. This is bullcrap, there are far too many witnesses including a Getty Images photog who witnessed the gunshots. Since she was “wisked away” to burial without an autopsy it appears that someone is covering up here. More to come.*****END OF [...]

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Looks like the Jihadist finally got her.
“Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in the wake of a suicide bombing that killed at least 14 of her supporters, doctors, a spokesman for her party and other officials said.
Bhutto suffered bullet wounds in the aftermath of the bomb attack, TV networks were reporting.
Police warned [...]

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This is sure to throw fuel to the fires in Pakistan:
“Exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returned home to a chaotic and jubilant welcome Sunday, the latest political heavyweight to join Pakistan’s deepening power struggle.
Thousands of frenzied supporters pushed past police barricades into the airport in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, carrying Sharif and [...]

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If true, this is reason enough for the removal of Musharraf.
“Pakistani lawyers, human-rights activists and opposition-party members can scarcely ignore the irony of their situation: while thousands of them are being beaten and locked up under President Pervez Musharraf’s newly declared state of emergency, his government has just let more than two dozen militant Islamists [...]

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I agree with Dr. Shackleford, it’s time to check our tactical nukes if Musharraf’s “antics” backfire. As I said before Musharraf is an unstable leader in a country that cannot afford instability. Walking the line between so-called loyalty to us while shaking hands with terrorist.
Some would disagree and say that Musharraf is [...]

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