Two confess to roles in Bhutto killing

[gateley]

Source: cnn.com

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- -- Two suspects arrested last week confessed to a Pakistani judge Wednesday that they helped arm the suicide bomber blamed for assassinating Benazir Bhutto, an Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN.

The two men -- identified as Hasnain Gul and Rafaqat -- told the judge in a court appearance that they provided Saeed Bilal with a house, transportation, a pistol, and the suicide jacket he allegedly used in the December 27 attack that killed the opposition leader and nearly two dozen others, spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said.

Pakistani authorities have said Bilal fired a gun on Bhutto before detonating his suicide jacket as she left a political rally in Rawalpindi.

Pakistani and British investigators concluded that Bhutto died when the force of the suicide blast caused her to slam her head onto an escape hatch on her SUV.

Bhutto's family has dismissed the government's assertion that she was not shot by an assassin's bullet, but the family has refused to allow an autopsy on the slain opposition leader.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/13/bhutto.confessions/index.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Before or after their sessions of torture?

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Wonder how long they held their breath during the water boarding?

[gateley]

3. Yes - my immediate reaction, too. Why bother giving us "news"? We don't believe

anything anymore.

[Virginia Dare]

4. Gee, what a surprise.....

was it the Starbucks coffee that made them talk?

[sce56]

5. No Turkey John Oliver had it right it was the

Turkey Baster

[Virginia Dare]

6. I'm waiting for the day when they get all quaint and nostalgic..

and bring back the rack.

[gateley]

7. I wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't brought it back already. Slimes. nt

[sce56]

9. I've heard on DemocracyNow that they use Boiling oil in some cases to get what they want

Ugh give me back my country!!!!

[gateley]

10. The thing that's so bizarre, is that it doesn't garner factual, reliable information.

John MCain has told us that himself -- who better to judge whether or not torture "works".

[MasonJar]

8. Scotland Yard came up with the medical conclusion based on medical and family reports.

It is likely that the government has identified the dead man and then located where he had been residing. This in no way says that the current prez did not hire him, of course. On edit, I find it insupportable that the USA and Condi talked Bhutto into returning to Padistan and then did not provide her protection. Typical Condi/Bush incompetence.

[MiniMe]

11. "confess or we will kill your family"

That sounds about right to me.