Well this seems like a bit of a bombshell:
Retired Brigadier supervising Benazir’s security was Osama’s handler, says expert
No kidding. This from Yahoo News India.
More over the bump.
Here’s more:
Chennai, Oct.19 (ANI): The retired brigadier who was given the responsibility of securing former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s car journey through Karachi on Thursday, used to be the handling officer of Osama bin Laden and Taliban chief Mulla Omar when he was attached with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Disclosing this information in an article for the rediff website, former Additional Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat, B.Raman says that Brigadier (retired) Ejaz Shah, whose resignation is being demanded by Benazir Bhutto, is a close confidante of President General Pervez Musharraf.
This article was written before she was assassinated, but after the first attempt. I just stumbled across it on another blog.
Supposedly she demanded his resignation after the first attempt.
But this illustrates the sheer impossibility (and some might say the stupidity (or blind optimism) on her part) of actually challenging the Powers That Be in Pakistan.
Unless she thought that somehow Condi Rice and the CIA could protect her … but hey, she wasn’t a stupid woman.
Anyway, I wanted to pass this along because I sure haven’t seen it anywhere in the American press, and I hope others can pass it around.
I find the whole Pakistan thing to be a big smelly black hole of mystery, at least regarding the United States relationship with it. Let’s be real: calling Pakistan an “ally” after 9/11 is just plain freaking unreal. Pakistan is and was guilty of everything they accused Saddam of: WMD’s, selling WMD’s on the black market, harboring terrorists including state-sponsored terrorism ….
And now, a month ago they start gearing up the Pakistan rhetoric by sending Bhutto over there with god-only-knows what kind of promises (“We’ve got your back, Benazir” says the U.S.), and having cover stories on it in Time Magazine and crap like that, then this massive turd hits the fan …
It’s all weird as hell.
Please pass this info around. This is the only place I will post it.