Al-Qa'ida sent me to kill Bhutto, says teenager
By Raymond Whitaker
Published: 20 January 2008
A teenage suspect arrested in Pakistan's lawless
tribal areas has told police that he was a member of a
team sent by an al-Qa'ida-linked militant leader to
kill the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto last
month.
Aitezaz Shah, 15, had confessed to investigators he
had been part of a five-man squad deployed on 27
December in Rawalpindi, where Ms Bhutto was killed, a
senior intelligence official said. Shah said the
killers were dispatched by Baitullah Mehsud, a
militant leader from the South Waziristan region with
strong ties to al-Qa'ida and an alliance with the
Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan. Shortly after Ms
Bhutto's assassination, President Pervez Musharraf's
government said it had intercepted a phone call in
which Mehsud congratulated the perpetrators. A
spokesman for the leader denied the claim.
There were suspicions that the authorities might be
seeking to cover up the possible involvement of
members of the military or intelligence, but last
week, the CIA said it had concluded that people in
Mehsud's network, aided by al-Qa'ida, were
responsible.
Maulvi Mohammed Umar, a purported spokesman for
Mehsud, denied his group had links with Shah, or that
he had been dispatched by Mehsud to kill Ms Bhutto,
calling the claim "government propaganda".
Ms Bhutto died after an attacker fired at her, then
detonated an explosive vest which killed at least 20
other people. The teenager is said to have identified
the attacker as "Bilal", aided by a man called
"Ikram". Shah was arrested in Dera Ismail Khan with
another suspect called Sher Zaman. He allegedly told
officials he had been ordered to carry out a suicide
attack on a Shia mosque there today during the feast
of Ashura, and Zaman was to give him an explosive
vest.
On Friday, the military said that up to 90 Islamic
militants aligned with Mehsud had died in clashes with
Pakistani troops in South Waziristan.
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