Slain Bhutto's supporters take anger to the streets

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071227/wl_nm/pakistan_bhutto_anger_dc

Angry supporters of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto took to the streets of Pakistani cities on Thursday, from the Himalayas to the southern coast.

The unrest was predictably fiercest in Bhutto's native Sindh province and its capital, Karachi.

"Police in Sindh have been put on red alert," said a senior police official.

"We have increased deployment and are patrolling in all the towns and cities, as there is trouble almost everywhere," he said.

Reports said security was deteriorating in Karachi, where thousands poured on to the streets to protest. At least three banks, a government office and a post office were set on fire, a witness said.


more about the red alert
Pakistani paramilitary forces on "red alert"
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL291102.htm

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1. MSM is covering the assassination, but not the unrest...

crawler at the bottom did mention that the Pak. Gov. is requesting citizens stay home, as "police are expecting some rioting".

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2. I've been watching Sky News all morning

and they've been showing a lot of burnings and angry people

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3. Grief-stricken Bhutto supporters react with fury

http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7547215&nav=menu192_2

Associated Press - December 27, 2007 11:23 AM ET

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - Grief and fury in Pakistan, following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.

Supporters have been attacking police and burning tires in several cities. At the hospital where Bhutto died, some smashed glass and chanted slogans against President Pervez Musharraf.

The 54-year-old former prime minister was killed by a suicide attacker who struck just minutes after Bhutto addressed thousands of supporters in Rawalpindi. Bhutto's security adviser says she was shot in the neck and chest by the attacker, who then blew himself up.
At least 20 others were killed in the attack.

Bhutto was rushed to the hospital and taken into emergency surgery. She died about an hour after the attack.

As news of her death spread, angry supporters took to the streets in the northwestern city of Peshawar as well other areas, chanting slogans against Musharraf. In Rawalpindi, the site of the attack, Bhutto's supporters burned election posters from the ruling party and attacked police, who fled the scene.