Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Bhutto Apparently Killed in Attack

2007-12-27 Thread Gymfig
I admired this person greatly. When I first heard about her I was curios. How can a woman be a leader in a Muslim country? I know that Pakistan is moderate but I was still curious. I came to admired because she was the complete package. She was intelligent, driven, beautiful etc. She did not go

[scifinoir2] OT: Bhutto Apparently Killed in Attack

2007-12-27 Thread KeithBJohnson
Holy crap. I wonder who's behind this, and why she, of all the claimants for leadership of Pakistan, seems to have been the most viciously and consistently targeted? You know there will be major examinations of Musharif, but surely he's not involved...? News stories are extremely incomplete, so

Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Bhutto Apparently Killed in Attack

2007-12-27 Thread Martin
I'm still numb at the realization. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I admired this person greatly. When I first heard about her I was curios. How can a woman be a leader in a Muslim country? I know that Pakistan is moderate but I was still curious. I came to admired because she was the

Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Bhutto Apparently Killed in Attack

2007-12-27 Thread Martin
I'm still numb at the realization. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I admired this person greatly. When I first heard about her I was curios. How can a woman be a leader in a Muslim country? I know that Pakistan is moderate but I was still curious. I came to admired because she was the

Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Bhutto Apparently Killed in Attack

2007-12-27 Thread Martin
Keith, put nothing past anyone. The official story, as I've gathered it to date, is that there was a suicide bomber at the rally she was attending. She was unhurt, and whisked away in her car so quickly that it led to initial reports that she'd been injured in the bombing. It was as she

Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Bhutto Apparently Killed in Attack

2007-12-27 Thread KeithBJohnson
that'd be a cleverly devious way to take some out: use the major event to scatter the crowd, get them in a panic, and then--when even the best security measures show gaps as they try to flee--take the target out. i'm really sad about this... -- Original message -- From:

Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Bhutto Apparently Killed in Attack

2007-12-27 Thread Gymfig
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Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Bhutto Apparently Killed in Attack

2007-12-27 Thread Liggins Bill
If Mrs. Bhutto's life were a screenplay, it would have been rejected by Hollywood producers as being fantasy. I will miss this beautiful leading character on the world's stage. The violent end to Mrs. Bhutto's life may be the violent beginning of the decline of Al Qaida and militant Islam.