Okay, so we first have al Qaeda both being blamed and taking the credit for Benazir Bhutto’s assassination yesterday. Good thing too, because today we learn that after a long, exhaustive investigation (as only a Musharref government could do in a mere 24 hours), Bhutto was not assassinated by al Qaeda.
By Ray McGovern, Consortium News
Posted on December 29, 2007, Printed on December 29, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/71881/
“There are few things as odd as the calm, superior indifference with which I and those like me watched the beginnings of the Nazi revolution in Germany, as if from a box at the theater…Perhaps the only comparably odd thing is the way that now, years later….”
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Mike Aivaz and Nick Juliano
Published: Friday December 28, 2007
The US has seen its options for dealing with Pakistan crumble with Benazir Bhutto’s assassination Thursday, and a former diplomat says American foreign policy decisions helped “precipitate” the former prime minister’s death.
A longtime adviser and close friend of assassinated Pakistani ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto places blame for Bhutto’s death squarely on the shoulders of U.S.-supported dictator Pervez Musharraf.
Italy is demanding the arrest of 140 members of Operation Condor, which was a secret assassination team created by six governments in South America during the 1970s.? These neo-fascists, right wing terrorists targeted left leaning opponents of the military dictatorships in South America as well as peace activists and even religious leaders who dare question the torture tactics of the various governments. Condor was put together in order to make sure that no one got out alive. If a target escaped one country, they would be hunted down in any of the remaining five should they go there.? Here is the basic summary of the news out of Italy:
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