Official assessment of Bhutto's injuries

Link: Bhutto Buried as Government Orders Virtual Lockdown - New York Times.

Ordinarily I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I'll believe the Musharraf government's account of Bhutto's death when real evidence is proffered -- or when pigs fly:

Saying he wanted to dispel first erroneous reports that Ms. Bhutto had died from gunfire, Brigadier Cheema gave an exhaustive description of the incident and showed a video on which Ms. Bhutto could be seen waving at the crowd from the sunroof of her car after the rally in Rawalpindi. But the camera lost focus in the pandemonium after it recorded the sound of three gunshots.

He said that Ms. Bhutto tried to duck down into the car just as the suicide bomber detonated his explosives, and the force of the blast caused her to strike her head.

“One of the levers of the sun roof hit her on the right side, which caused a fracture, and that is what caused her death,” Brigadier Cheema said. He said shrapnel from the blast hit the left side of the car, but her injury was on the right side of her head. The lever on the car showed traces of blood, he said. “There was no bullet that hit Mohtarma Bhutto, there was no splinter that hit Mohtarma Bhutto, and there was no pellet that hit her,” he said. It remained unclear if the suicide bomber had fired the shots or if a second person had, he said.

She was almost unconscious when brought to the hospital, he added. He said that Ms. Bhutto’s husband had not allowed an autopsy but that doctors conducted an external post-mortem and took X-rays.

Not that it makes much difference in the end.  Dead is dead.

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[Tia]

Yeah, I don't buy it either. I don't suspect any reasonable person would. What was telling for me was an account of how things transpired from a photographer who was there:

http://tinyurl.com/yqfe6v