Bhutto Assassin Arrested

[ShadyPolitics]

A 15-year-old detained near the Afghan border has confessed to joining a team of assassins sent to kill Benazir Bhutto, officials said Saturday, announcing the first arrests in the case since the attack that killed the opposition leader.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/19/bhutto.arrest.ap/index.html


A 15 year boy confessed to being apart of an 5-man team who plotted and carried out the assassination of Bhutto. Personally, I think this is another one of Pakistan attempts to take the blame off President (General) Musharraf. I believe that Musharraf was the person responsible for plotting the assassination of Bhutto and he should be the person being interrogated for her assassination. *cough* he is a supporter of Al-Qaedae too

[Cattraknoff]

Probably coerced. What idiot in their right mind would actually confess to that?

[Locke]

Undoubtedly coerced. Although there will indubitably be a shout of "democracy prevails!" cries spewed by the western media.

[Cattraknoff]

Undoubtedly coerced. Although there will indubitably be a shout of "democracy prevails!" cries spewed by the western media.

I would be a happy man if current western media outlets somehow "disappeared". Or at least the people running them.

[Ahadistan]

A 15 year boy confessed to being apart of an 5-man team who plotted and carried out the assassination of Bhutto. Personally, I think this is another one of Pakistan attempts to take the blame off President (General) Musharraf. I believe that Musharraf was the person responsible for plotting the assassination of Bhutto and he should be the person being interrogated for her assassination. *cough* he is a supporter of Al-Qaedae too

ok i understand the invalidity of this arrest. but neither do u have any proof against Musharaff except the fact u dont like him. And even if he is corrupt, u still need the evidence and decent one. i dont think democracy is justified so we can't assume he's an invalid ruler. he's doing things his way, and yes a lot of things; much better than some recent ones in the past....

[Cattraknoff]

ok i understand the invalidity of this arrest. but neither do u have any proof against Musharaff except the fact u dont like him. And even if he is corrupt, u still need the evidence and decent one. i dont think democracy is justified so we can't assume he's an invalid ruler. he's doing things his way, and yes a lot of things; much better than some recent ones in the past....

Solid evidence is difficult to come by in matters involving a man who would have the means to cover it up, if needed. Theories can be made though, provided the parties involve had proper motive, and the means to do so. I think the point is perhaps not that he did it for a certainty, only that it's a possibility that shouldn't be dismissed lightly.

[Ahadistan]

Solid evidence is difficult to come by in matters involving a man who would have the means to cover it up, if needed. Theories can be made though, provided the parties involve had proper motive, and the means to do so. I think the point is perhaps not that he did it for a certainty, only that it's a possibility that shouldn't be dismissed lightly.

i completely understand your perspective, but the thing i wana point out is that the man is hated on racial/regional basis more than what he has actually done. his good deeds are unnoticed by people who hate him, and his bad deeds/made up version of bad deeds is what those people only break up. so it kind of gets to u after a while as to why these people don't acknowledge someone's achievement that they dislike.

oncea gain i nmean no disrespect to people, just my thought

[Cattraknoff]

i completely understand your perspective, but the thing i wana point out is that the man is hated on racial/regional basis more than what he has actually done. his good deeds are unnoticed by people who hate him, and his bad deeds/made up version of bad deeds is what those people only break up. so it kind of gets to u after a while as to why these people don't acknowledge someone's achievement that they dislike.

oncea gain i nmean no disrespect to people, just my thought

I do not deny that he has done a lot of good, but he has not preserved the rights of the general populace, as he should. Freedoms are not to be taken away on a whim. I understand that there are reasons for such, but limiting free speech and thought is crossing the line. But frankly there wasn't too much of this to begin with, thanks to the massive religious involvement in laws.

[Ahadistan]

I do not deny that he has done a lot of good, but he has not preserved the rights of the general populace, as he should. Freedoms are not to be taken away on a whim. I understand that there are reasons for such, but limiting free speech and thought is crossing the line. But frankly there wasn't too much of this to begin with, thanks to the massive religious involvement in laws.

as i said b4, i dont undermine ur stance one bit. but at the same time my idea on freedom and all that is quite different from the norms of society.

also just one slight point that freedom comes with many cost (and this freedom i talk about the western one, the normative one). one must be quite educated to understand the responsibilities that come with freedom. i believe is something that ought to be earned. not saying that one human can decide wat u deserve or not, but a person, or a public need to be civil. im from pakistan, and i know majority of the mentality of pakistanis. i hate to say this but a whole lot of them are morons who know one or two things and they think they know the world. i belive a persoxn oguht to b slapped if they don't do things right and they don't comply with words.


hah wow i have some quaint perspective on things....

[lihen]

The boy detained at afgan border, was just a boy but a full trained millitant. millitant are now training teenage boys, since they are least suspected by the forces....
But in Bhutto's case i doubt that the govt. was unaware of this plot, because security was not at the level at which it should be for a political leader who is in hitlist of millitant groups