Lawyer: Police prevented Bhutto autopsy NEW:New video proves Bhutto shot, widower says

[helderheid]

# Story Highlights
# NEW: New video proves Bhutto shot, widower says
# Doctors claim Pakistani police prevented an autopsy on Benazir Bhutto
# Lawyer Athar Minallah said the move violated Pakistani criminal law
# Police chief Aziz Saud said he suggested autopsy but Bhutto's widower objected

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Rawalpindi's police chief stopped doctors at the hospital where Benazir Bhutto died from conducting an autopsy, according to a lawyer on the hospital's board.

It was a violation of Pakistani criminal law and prevented a medical conclusion about what killed the former prime minister, said Athar Minallah, who serves on the board that manages Rawalpindi General Hospital.

However, the police chief involved, Aziz Saud, told CNN that he suggested an autopsy be done, but that Bhutto's husband objected.

The revelation came on Monday after new videotape of Bhutto's assassination emerged, showing her slumping just after gunshots rang out.

The tape provided the clearest view yet of the attack and appeared to show that Bhutto was shot. That would contradict the Pakistan government's account.
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/12/31/bhutto.report.pdf">Read Bhutto's full medical report

Bhutto's family and political party maintain that the government is lying, and insist she died from gunshot wounds.

Bhutto's husband, in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Monday, called for an international investigation into his wife's death, saying the new video proves the Pakistani government "has been trying to muddy the water from the first day."

"Everything is now very clear that she was shot," Asif Ali Zardari said.

Zardari also called on the U.S. government to push for an international probe.

"I want them to help me find out who killed my wife, the mother of my children," he said of the Bush administration.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/31/pakistan.autopsy/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">More here

*emphasis added by me

[tekisui]

1. I read the medical report.

I'm no medical expert by any means. Asking for help here. The fatal wound was on the right temporoparietal region of her head.

The shot is the video was fire from her left, would this be an exit wound?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Likely.

n/t

[helderheid]

4. thanks!

[Richard Steele]

2. K&R

[Disturbed]

5. This case will never be solved..

The crime scene was washed down. The bodies were rushed out. There was no attempt to
investigate anything. Were there two assasins? Was there one shooter & on suicide bomber or was that
the same man? Who was behind the action? Too many people don't want the actual facts to see the light
of day. This will fade into another mystery within a few weeks as other events take center stage.

[helderheid]

6. true, though with the internets and easy access to video recording devices, at least we know 2+2 do

not = 4 here.