Baitullah Mehsud denies killing Bhutto

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From Hindustani Times/AFP:

Alleged Qaeda official Mehsud denies killing Bhutto: spokesman

Alleged Al-Qaeda leader Baitullah Mehsud denied any involvement in Benazir Bhutto's death after the Pakistan government blamed him for the killing, his spokesman told AFP on Saturday.

"He had no involvement in this attack," spokesman Maulana Omar said in a telephone call. "This is a conspiracy of the government, army and intelligence agencies."

The spokesman said he was calling from Pakistan's Waziristan area, a lawless tribal region where Pakistani government forces have been battling Islamist militants. "It is against tribal tradition and custom to attack a woman," Omar said.

He said the transcript released by the government, allegedly of a phone call between Mehsud and a militant discussing Bhutto's death after the fact, was a "drama" and expressed sadness over her assassination on Thursday.

link: http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/FullcoverageStoryPage.aspx?id=61ba5c2b-fd43-47f0-9c6d-83539c90db30Benazirassassinated_Special&&Headline=Al-Qaeda+leader+denies+killing+Bhutto

[seemslikeadream]

1. That's a surprise

not

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. My instincts tell me that it was probably.......

a calculated move by a faction of the military, most probably the intelligence arm. It doesn't make sense for Musharraf creating more of a mess for himself than he already had and why would Al-Qaeda want to piss off a large populace in a country where they are very vulnerable if the populace turned against them.
It doesn't make sense.
Now if some in the military believed that Musharraf was weakened then this might just be the opening for another coup.

[malaise]

4. Unless Mushie is

next.

[MH1]

3. "against tribal tradition and custom to attack a woman"

Yeah, sure. Unless of course thy happen to be in a crowd where your suicide bomber does his thing. Or in a building when you fly a jet plane into it.

He may not have had any role in Bhutto's assassination, but it's kind of bizarre that he would try to sell his story with that kind of reason.

[malaise]

5. WTF did he have to do with 9/11? n/t

[Marrah_G]

6. This jerk is a Taliban leader

The treatment of women by his organization is well documented. They are murderous bastards who treat women worse then they treat animals.

I can provide a list of Taliban laws pertaining to women if anyone doubts this.