Pakistan's Bhutto killed in attack

Yahoo/AP reports that Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday.

A party security adviser said Bhutto was shot in neck and chest as she got into her vehicle to leave the rally in Rawalpindi near the capital Islamabad. A gunman then blew himself up.

This is a very unfortunate event. However, while Yahoo quotes the following,

Her supporters at the hospital began chanting "Dog, Musharraf, dog," referring to Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf. Some of them smashed the glass door at the main entrance of the emergency unit, others burst into tears.

I am not sure this will bode as bad for Musharraf as it will for radical Islamists in Pakistan. Nor does Musharraf have anything to gain by her death and therefore no reason to assasinate her. If he wanted to assasinate her, why let her back into Pakistan?

While Bhutto was by no means the saving grace for Pakistan that the MSM has made her out to be, she was popular to a large segment of the Pakistani population. It will be interesting to see whether a popular backlash happens against extremist Islamists giving Musharraf more leeway to battle against these insurgents in his country.