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December 28, 2007

Bhutto says Bin Laden was Murdered?
Posted by Shadi Hamid

Ok, this is really weird. David Frost is interviewing Benazir Bhutto on his Al Jazeera program (from November). Strangely enough, at 6 min 12 s, Bhutto says that Osama Bin Laden was murdered by Omar Sheikh. Did she mean to say Daniel Pearl (it's not as if their names are similar)? Strangely enough, Frost didn't correct her, nor did Bhutto clarify her statement. Take a look and if you have any idea what's going on here, please share.


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To start, I have not listened to the video in its' entirety, the overwhelmingly aggressive rap music in the background of my friend's corner office prevents my playing it with a complete ear, however, I fully grasp, with grave countenance, the loss of Benazir Bhutto. She was more than a political rock in a sea of intangible Pakistani politics, she was a sweet hope for LIBERTY that all the western world, and the Pakistani people, could taste without a hint of bitterness. While internal affairs are best left to to the state in which they occur, this is the exception. For the U.S. to sit casually on a velvet sofa and throw change at an autocratic military regime (Musharaff and company) and hope for democracy to be implemented without direct involvement, justified by claims to respect the nationalism of the Pakistani people, is not not only wrong, it's a grave decision. The War on Terror, while a nice, if not completely ill, gesture, cannot continue at the expense of tacit approval of the oppression of the civil liberties of the Pakistan people. When did the bullet become more important than the ballot? This is the time for liberal reform. This is the time for the U.S. to revive its' reputation as a comforting and friendly freedom revivalist. Obama '08 Signed: Ethan R. L. (A young chap with much to learn, yet much to say)

Wasn't bhutto corrupt? I seem to recall press accounts of her embezzlinng billions from pakistan...

If this is true, the billion dollar war the US has been fighting to keep the American people in fear. Way to go Bush.

The BBC has censored this story on their site....Here is my letter to them:

hello BBC
You may be aware that back in November 2007, Sir David
Frost interviewed the late Ms Bhutto for Al-jazeera.
In that interview, MS Bhutto made the remarkable claim
that Omar Sheik had murdered Osama Bin Laden. Whatever
the truth of that, this bit of the tape was edited out
by the BBC:

Here is the BBC version:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7070000/newsid_7075800/7075843.stm?bw=nb&mp=wm&news=1&ms3=6&ms_javascript=true&nol_storyid=7075843&bbcws=2#

At approximately 05:04 in the interview, it cuts to
David Frost to cover up the visual discontinuity that
would be there if Bhutto was shown saying "..murdered
Bin Laden"

Here is the aljazeera interview, where she makes her
statement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg

Here is the full interview. The Bin Laden reference is
at 6.15:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIO8B6fpFSQ

WHY was that bit of the interview cut from the BBC
version? Please explain. This looks as if BBC is
engaging in censorship

regards
Brian Souter

It's not censorship, Brian, it's editing. If the BBC wants tyo edit a false claim out of an interview, they have the right to do so.

I'm curious as to why all of the news stories about Bhutto ignore that she embezzled billions of dollars.

Mike M: Not that I now anything more about Bhutto being corrupt than I've recently heard on norwegian TV in the aftermath of her murder, but from what I understood the claims about corruption on her behalf has never been proved?

http://www.delusionofgrandeur.co.uk/2008/01/05/the-bhuttofrost-interview-bbc-censorship-conspiracy/

Apparently it was a slip - see above link.

Mike M: Not that I now anything more about Bhutto being corrupt than I've recently heard on norwegian TV in the aftermath of her murder, but from what I understood the claims about corruption on her behalf has never been proved?

Mike M: Not that I now anything more about Bhutto being corrupt than I've recently heard on norwegian TV in the aftermath of her murder, but from what I understood the claims about corruption on her behalf has never been proved

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