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Terrorists used a baby in Benazir murder attempt
Calcutta News.Net
Sunday 3rd February, 2008
Terrorists used a baby strapped with bombs in the first assassination attempt on former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
In a posthumous autobiography, Benazir has revealed the incident occurred the day she returned home last year after self-imposed exile.
In the book, excerpted in the Sunday Times, she gave an account of the bomb blast that ripped through her motorcade on October the 18th in Islamabad.
In the book she noted that during the motorcade, she saw a man holding up a baby dressed in the colours of her PPP party.
After gesticulating repeatedly for her to take the baby, which was about one or two years old, she directed the crowd to let the man through.
But when the crowd parted, the man would not come forward.
Instead he tried to hand the baby to someone in the crowd.
The man finally came forward but, by then, she had retreated to the interior of her vehicle.
She said an MP from her party, Agha Siraj Durrani, turned away the man who tried to hand the baby up.
The man then went to a police vehicle to the left of the truck, which also refused to take the baby.
He then moved to the police vehicle in front of the first, which is when the first explosion took place.
Everyone in the police van was killed, as were those around it.
Although Ms Bhutto narrowly escaped being assassinated, 140 people were killed in the bombing.
She was killed in an attack at another public rally on December 27th.
The Benazir Bhutto autobiography will be published in mid-February.
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Anonymous
02-03-08, 05:19 PM |
Terrorists used a baby in Benazir murder attempt
You can only justify these actions if you have no soul
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Wisdom above
02-03-08, 05:40 PM |
Unthinkable and unbelievable for terrorists to use a baby as suicide bomber as a bait to kill Benazir Bhutto.
Most shocking. Most inhumane.
The baby must have been kidnapped from his or her mother.
The terrorists surely will not use their own baby as suicide bomber.
It is a mad and crazy world.
Remember , all events happened yesterday & today were all illogical.
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no sense,6th or seventh
02-04-08, 02:38 AM |
on wisdom up or down.
Terrorist will not use their own baby is giving terrorists a sense of seventh heaven. This is a cult that worshipped death, loves death, despised any resemblance of breathing sanity, utterly dangerous with their propaganda which is the only thing alive to them, people are be nature naive and compassionate, knowing this bounty they are now spin meisters.
Do you feel compassionate towards these baby haters?
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Aftab
02-04-08, 05:00 AM |
They are not Muslims
these people these so called jihadees are not muslim. they use name of islam and jihad to earn money. heir financer provide them money and luxries and then they can kill any body. benazir was a great leader, a brave woman and also she was a hope for the poor masses of pakistan, my country. Mushraf must have taken notice of benazir clues. and no doubt that financer and planner are among the political party which was afraid that benazir was a threat to their power.
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Aftab
02-04-08, 05:01 AM |
They are not Muslims
these people these so called jihadees are not muslim. they use name of islam and jihad to earn money. heir financer provide them money and luxries and then they can kill any body. benazir was a great leader, a brave woman and also she was a hope for the poor masses of pakistan, my country. Mushraf must have taken notice of benazir clues. and no doubt that financer and planner are among the political party which was afraid that benazir was a threat to their power.
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