What a coincidence

Despite the the proclamations of "The Fox News All-Stars" it sure is starting to look like Bush’s good buddy Musharraf and his military government are the strongest suspects in the latest murder of a Bhutto. After all, a the fourth time is a trend.

The day she was assassinated last Thursday, Benazir Bhutto had planned to reveal new evidence alleging the involvement of Pakistan’s intelligence agencies in rigging the country’s upcoming elections, an aide said Monday.

Bhutto had been due to meet U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., to hand over a report charging that the military Inter-Services Intelligence agency was planning to fix the polls in the favor of President Pervez Musharraf.

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.

Hmmm, smells like yet another motive. The excuse of "Oh, they couldn’t possibly have wanted that to happen" really is not the world’s best alibi, even if Fred Barnes is a willing buyer. Most murderers could not possibly want to risk going to jail either, but nevertheless they kill.

Good thing the Pakistan government officials have been so gosh darn trustworthy to this point in the aftermath of the assassination.

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