Pakistani Government begins building case against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Bhutto's assassination

WorldNetDaily has an article in which Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz states that the whole mystery of Bhutto's assassination has been resolved.

"We have the evidence that al-Qaida and Taliban were behind the suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto,"

This evidence is based on an "intelligence intercept" between Baitullah Mehsud, a known Al Qaeda loyalist which the Pakistani government has released the transcripts for.

Maulvi Sahib (MS): Asalaam Aleikum (Peace be with you) Baitullah Mehsud (BM): Waleikum Asalam (And also with you) MS: Chief, how are you? BM: I am fine. MS: Congratulations, I just got back during the night. BM: Congratulations to you, were they our men? MS: Yes they were ours. BM: Who were they? MS: There was Saeed, there was Bilal from Badar and Ikramullah. BM: The three of them did it? MS: Ikramullah and Bilal did it. BM: Then congratulations. MS: Where are you? I want to meet you. BM: I am at Makeen (town in South Waziristan tribal region), come over, I am at Anwar Shah's house. MS: OK, I'll come. BM: Don't inform their house for the time being. MS: OK. BM: It was a tremendous effort. They were really brave boys who killed her. MS: Mashallah (Thank God). When I come I will give you all the details. BM: I will wait for you. Congratulations, once again congratulations. MS: Congratulations to you. BM: Anything I can do for you? MS: Thank you very much. BM: Asalaam Aleikum. MS: Waaleikum Asalaam.

Also, apparently Bhutto did not die from a bullet wound nor from shrapnel, but instead died from,

Cheema, however, contended today Bhutto was killed when she tried to duck back into her vehicle after the campaign rally. Her skull was fractured, he explained, when shock waves from the blast smashed her head into a lever attached to the sunroof.

As I have stated before, while Musharraf has been weakened by this event, he will/is using the event to build his case against the popular Taliban and Al Qaeda forces in his country to ensure popular support for his military when they attack these terrorists in the future with the aid of US Special Forces and American precision airpower.

The revelation that Bhutto was killed by striking a lever on the sunroof of her car and not from a bullet or shrapnel will also give credance to the Pakistani forces that they did all they could to prevent her assassination. If rogue elements are found to have assisted in her assassination, this revelation will give Musharraf leverage to rid his government (read ISI) of pro-Taliban individuals.

It is in Musharraf's best interest not to delay the 08 January Parlimentary elections. It is also in his interest to get a anti-Al Qaeda Pakistan People's Party (PPP) ally into the government in his eventual battle against Al Qaeda and foreign Taliban in the FATA region.

Bhutto's husband will deliver instructions Sunday, 30 January 2007 for the future of the PPP, stating,

that she left instructions about the future of the Pakistan People's Party to be read in the event of her death, which would be made public on Sunday.

These instructions will be read by the couple's son on Sunday.

Getting the election over and done with and getting a PPP Prime Minister into power to establish a popularly elected coalition against Al Qaeda and the foreign Taliban is crucial to Musharraf if he is to begin using US assistance to bring the war to Al Qaeda in the FATA region.

His Army can prevent any infiltration of insurgents out of the FATA region and American high tech UAVs and airpower can systematically destroy Al Qaaeda/foreign Taliban safe havens all in the name of retribution and vengence for Bhutto's assassination.

The end result is this buys Musharraf a few more years until subsequent elections where he and the PPP will have to answer to the people again. If successful, his popularity will increase as will the PPP's, Al Qaeda and foreign Taliban will be significanlty degraded if not defeated, and Pakistan will once again be united, moving forward with economic projects to enhance his country's wealth to include several oil pipelines, here and here the recently completed (and soon to be enhanced) port in Gwadar to bring these oil supplies and other goods to the Arabian Sea and to the international market.

Noting the route of both of these pipelines, especially the one from the Caspian Sea, it is critical to the future prosperity of Pakistan to assist Afghanistan in it battle against the Taliban. However, until Bhutto's assassination, he has not had the popular support to wage full up war against Al Qaeda.

Her assassination and the upcoming January elections may change all that. One can only hope that Pakistan can go forward with US assistance in a battle against Al Qaeda as the FATA region is Al Qaeda's current unassailable base from which it continues its campaign of exporting terror and economic depression, not only in Pakistan, but also in Afghanistan and to the rest of the world.