"Death is a proof of sincerity," Graham Greene wrote in The Comedians. That holds true here.
As for the motivations of the killers. Their real targets were secular liberalism, the Bhutto dynasty, and the U.S. What they feared was a Bhutto premiership, beginning in about ten days, when the elections were to take place. Whoever they are exactly, they see an opening to power and control now, and they would not permit Benazir to stand in their way.
LA Times: The Benazir I Knew
Amy's profile of Benazir Bhutto appears in the December/January issue of More magazine.
Read more reactions from HuffPost bloggers on Benazir Bhutto's assassination
read more digg story
No comments:
Post a Comment