Remember when she claimed she was named for Sir Edmund Hillary? Only Hillary forgot that Sir Edmund conquered Mount Everest AFTER she was born.

But the Sweetness & Light picked up Hillary’s own book and took her to the woodshed.

That’s gonna leave a mark! 

Part of the slow go by the Army has always been the fact that in the tribal areas you have a lot of Pashtun and the Army has a lot of Pashtun. They had no issues like that in Kashmir but never really got into fighting their own in the AQ hunt. Tribal loyalties mean a lot there.

The bottom line is that this is a setback in Pakistani front in the war on terror.

Who benefits from that? Not Musharraf.

I don’t know whether the perps were Al Queda or the Taliban moles in Pak Intelligence.

But this situation can’t go on much longer without a total meltdown in Pakistan.

As in 1892, today in 2007, we are undergoing a class crisis. A weakened union full of religiously and racially segregated sects, and an inflated state of Corporatism, threaten to sever the spinal cord of this fragile democracy.

Only now, everyone can see the Emperor has no clothes. The banks are operating on a prayer and the lie that Fort Knox still has gold in its dusty vaults. People are sitting in tent cities after they lose their homes because vulture capitalists gave them loans they knew poor people couldn’t afford to pay. Congress voted to let sick children die. Poor soldiers are shipped off to Iraq to stand atop IEDs so Bush and Clinton legacies don’t have to.

Man I’ve seen less spin in the old days of Pravda. I could probably go to some of the no hold barred marxist sites and see some of these same talking points a few of which are already disproven like the tent city story last week or so.

AQ claims the deed
Our intel guys leaking no independent confirmation of that
Shariff sort of between a rock and a hard spot now and Bhutto’s party doesn’t have a major figure to put forward as a substitute
Likely marshal law for at least till stuff after the funeral but won’t be put in till some of the first grief reaction passes
likely delay of the elections while Bhutto’s party tries to punt for a replacement
Big question at this time will ISI/Army stick with Musharaff and combine with the party of Bhutto to kick some AQ/Taliban butt as backlash or will they consider a new general to replace Musharaff as a new military top dog?

Reminder no confirm on any of this, just the common stuff I am hearing Take with a grain of salt

For me it’s still way to murky at this point.

http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071227/NEWS01/71227008/1002

JustaDude: Good point. And hopefully, there will be a thorough investigation. Unfortunately, the politics of this sad event may cloud the truth.

To many times first reports end up being wrong.

Her death will not be changed by jumping the gun..cooler heads need to prevail and gather all the info you can to figure it all out.

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/videopod/default.aspx?id=0

And if you look at that clip, which describes the actual attack, and also the You Tube video Curt posted (at the 42-44 second mark) you’ll see that the windows and door wall of the SUV she was riding in do not appear thick as they might with better armored vehicles.

If you ever get the chance to be around the U.S. President’s motorcade, or see footage of the doors opening and closing you’ll see what real armor protection is like.

We’ll learn more about the details of this heinous, vile attack in the days to come. I just hope that she was taking every precaution to prevent such attacks. After looking at the door panels, I’m not so sure.

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