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Thursday, December 27, 2007

Benazir Bhutto Assassinated

The BBC and the International Herald Tribune report that Benazir Bhutto has been killed at a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She was reportedly shot by an assassin who then detonated a suicide bomb.

Bhutto was one of the world's most famous politicians in the 1990s, and had recently returned from eight years in exile to become a renewed political force in Pakistan.

Early reports said she had escaped the attack, but the website of the Pakistan People's Party now says she has been assassinated.

Posted by Mr. Holznagel at 6:44 AM