The government probably made up the story for the same reason for the made up the story of Pat Tilman’s death. In Tilman’s death it was an inside job and not the work of some outside organization.

How in the world does someone not take that statement as you saying Tillman was murdered. And whether you believe a certain Ranger unit or not existed matters not. That’s up to the military. They covered up a bad scene and they got caught, but to try and compare the two incidents is just plain wrong.

Musharraf has less and less friends now. Giving him money for arms didn’t work, the cover up of Benazir Bhutto was amateurish and his backing down against the northern tribes didn’t win him any friends with Afganistan or NATO. I wonder how the CIA is doing in finding quality leadership for Pakistan which wouldn’t get assassinated. I sense they have found no good options. An invasion of Pakistan would be unlikely. Dropping support for Musharraf would still be unlikely ( NATO would have to depend on Afganistan for everything since Pakistan would revoke air flights over Pakistan). The alternative is going from Turkey or Iraq over Amermenia over Azerbaijan over the Caspian sea, over Turkmenistan and down into Afganistan. NATO troops dressing up as Afganistan soldiers, Pakistani soldier or local tribesmen and going after people in Northern Pakistan would be more likely.

It was not a case of IF she would be assasinated, but WHEN.

All that is left is for the election to be deferred and the Bush Administration (the only external support Musharif has)to support that decision.

Safraz Khan Lashari, a member of the Pakistan People’s Party election monitoring unit, said the report was “very sensitive” and that the party wanted to initially share it with trusted
American politicians rather than the Bush administration, which is seen here as strongly backing Musharraf.

That those two named US politicians are trusted by anyone is scary.

And Tillman wasn’t murdered. He was accidentally killed by friendly fire and the military brass tried to hide it, not our elected leaders so your analogy doesn’t add up. But I do agree Pakistan was trying to cover up something.

“In Tilman’s death it was an inside job friendly fire in the fog of war and not the work of some outside organization.”

I hope that is what you meant.

Imagine if she was shot from a person inside her car and the high ranking police were in on it. That would defiantly cause the police to want to hide the body/evidence and for there to be no autopsy evidence, such as photos, not to be available for even other governments to look at. Would people hear the shots coming from the fire? Not when somebody else is shooting. The explosion could have even made it even easier for people to get confused.