mmm interesting - "history shows" - presumably you are referring to Iraq?
I don;t think you can compare Pakistan and Iraq.
CA holds off on Pakistan decision
Posted 2 hours 27 minutes ago
Updated 1 hour 36 minutes ago
Cricket Australia (CA) says it will wait until February to make a decision on whether the team will travel to Pakistan for a planned tour in March.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the sports body should think seriously before touring the troubled nation.
Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland says the death of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is tragic, but no decision has been made about the tour.
"We'll be taking all of the necessary advice ahead of that tour, such that we know exactly whether it's appropriate or not to be taking that visit," he said.
"Those tours have gone ahead in the past without a hitch and I expect that to be the same."
Sutherland says right now a neutral venue, or a move for the tour to be played in Australia, is not under consideration.
"We [have made] a comittment to tour Pakistan and we'll be pursuing every avenue that we can to ensure that it's appropriate for the tour to go ahead," he said.
"Ultimately whether we play in a neutral venue is not really a matter for Cricket Australia anyway, it's a matter for Pakistan Cricket Board."
International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Malcolm Speed said the sport's governing body would also monitor the situation and conduct its own investigation.
"The first step is the country that is to visit, as Australia is to visit in March, will carry out their own investigation," Speed said.
"If things are not suitable and if Pakistan do not defer or agree to play elsewhere, the ICC will carry out an independent investigation.
"We need to wait and see how things settle down...there will be no decisions in the next week or next month."
Speed said a neutral venue would be sought before the ICC deferred the series.
Cricketers 'not in danger'
Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram, who is in Australia acting as a television commentator, said he expected the political situation to calm down after the January 8 elections and he doubted international sides would be targeted.
"If I had to go straight away probably I'd wait until the elections and then after that everything would definitely settle down, that's for sure," he told AAP.
"As far as sport's concerned, they all love their sport in Pakistan.
"They're not going to harm anyone as far as international sports people are concerned."
Three Bhutto party workers shot dead in Pakistan
Posted Sat Dec 8, 2007 7:30pm AEDT
Gunmen shot dead three workers of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto's opposition party in a pre-dawn attack in south-west Pakistan amid campaigning for January polls, police said.
The shooting occurred in the Pakistan People's Party's (PPP) office in Naseerabad district, 240 kilometres east of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, local police officer Maula Dad said.
"Unidentified men entered the PPP office and sprayed bullets on men sleeping there, killing three of them and injuring another," he said.
Police said it could be linked to old rivalry between two groups locked in a land dispute, one supporting the PPP and the other backing rival candidate for the January 8 general elections.
Pakistan is headed towards elections as security forces are waging a campaign against terrorism and militancy particularly in the north-western part of the country.
Ms Bhutto's homecoming in October after eight-year self imposed exile was marred by two bombings that killed around 140 people among a mammoth crowd that welcomed her in the southern port city of Karachi.
She was assassinated on 27 December 2007, in a combined shooting and suicide bomb attack during a political rally of the Pakistan Peoples Party in the Liaquat National Bagh in Rawalpindi.[3] Eyewitnesses to the assassination stated to various news agencies that Bhutto had stood up through the sunroof of the white Toyota Land Cruiser that ferried her to the rally[4] to wave at supporters who were cheering her.
It was then a "thin man" on a motorcycle, carrying an AK-47 rifle, fired two shots, one into Bhutto's neck, and she collapsed, falling down into the vehicle.[4][5] Bhutto was rushed to Rawalpindi General Hospital where she died at 6:16 p.m. local time (13:16 GMT). The gunshot to the neck was reported as the cause of death, according to the Pakistani Interior Ministry.[6]
An Al-Qaida leader based in Afghanistan was reported to have claimed responsibility for the attack.[7] Her burial is due to take place in her hometown in Larkana, Sind, next to her father Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's grave.[8]
Friday, December 28, 2007 (Washington)
An Al-Qaida leader based in Afghanistan has claimed responsibility for the assassination of former Pakistan Premier Benazir Bhutto, whom he described as ''the most precious American asset.''
''We terminated the most precious American asset which vowed to defeat (the) 'mujahadeen','' al-Qaida Commander and spokesman Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid told the Italian news agency Adnkronos International (AKI) in a phone call from an unknown location.
Al-Yazid was described by AKI as the ''main al-Qaida commander in Afghanistan''. It reported that the decision to kill Bhutto was made by al-Qaida No. two, Ayman al-Zawahiri in October.
The report said death squads were allegedly constituted for the mission and one cell comprising a ''Punjabi volunteer'' of the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi killed Bhutto.
Bhutto died after being shot by a suicide attacker, who later blew himself up near her armoured vehicles just after she had addressed an election rally at Rawalpindi near here.
The blast killed nearly 30 people.....
why is it that these alleged quotes by AQ never seem to make sense ....??''We terminated the most precious American asset which vowed to defeat (the) 'mujahadeen','' al-Qaida Commander and spokesman Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid told the Italian news agency Adnkronos International (AKI) in a phone call from an unknown location.
why is it that these alleged quotes by AQ never seem to make sense ....??
so Musharraf isn't as much a threat to the mujahadeen as Bhutto? - what? is he soft of terror?
I would assume Bhutto appealed to and vowed to help the poor and uneducated, exactly the people AQ easily recruit.
Not to mention a FEMALE pro democracy president ? yah sure Islamists would tolerate that
bludy marvelous !Yeah, he's allowed the Taliban to control a few areas in Pakistan..
Pro-Musharraf candidate killed in blast: police
Posted Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:01pm AEDT
A blast at an election meeting in Pakistan's troubled north-west has killed three people, including a candidate for the party that supports President Pervez Musharraf, police said.
"The blast took place at a meeting of the PML(Q) [Pakistan Muslim League]," police officer Mohammad Iqbal said.
"The candidate and two of his supporters were killed."
The blast occurred in the Swat Valley.
interesting noi, that announcement on her cause of death says the bullets missed -noi said:Recent reports show that Benazir Bhutto was killed due to the force of the explosion, when she was thrown against an obstruction that was part of the sun/moon roof.
CNN now reporting on the confusion...Though early reports indicated that she had been hit by shrapnel or the gunshots,[5][6][7] the Pakistani Interior Ministry stated that Bhutto was not hit by either, and that she died of a skull fracture sustained when she hit the sunroof of the vehicle due to the force of the explosion.
The Pakistani Interior Ministry reported that Benazir Bhutto was killed by a gunshot wound to the neck.
How did Pakistan's Bhutto die?
Conflicting reports about what caused the death of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto are fueling questions about the circumstances of her assassination.
Benazir Bhutto died Thursday after a suicide bombing at a political rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Bhutto's political party disputed official versions of the incident, accusing the government of lying. Video footage of Thursday's attack on Bhutto contains a murky shot of a hand firing a pistol three times, but the Pakistani government said Bhutto -- who was standing through her vehicle's sunroof -- was not hit.
The latest explanation Friday by Pakistan's Interior Ministry said Bhutto, 54, died from a fractured skull after hitting her head on a piece of the vehicle.
Immediately following the gunfire, a suicide bomber ignited explosives near Bhutto's motorcade. Watch the video »
An Interior Ministry spokesman, Brig. Javed Iqbal Cheema, said Bhutto "fell down or perhaps ducked" and apparently hit her head on a lever connected to the car's sunroof. Cheema added that the lever was stained with blood.
Cheema's version of events conflicts with that of the government-run news agency Associated Press of Pakistan, which at first quoted the Interior Ministry as saying shrapnel from the bomb blast killed Bhutto. The suicide bomb killed more than 20 others, and at least 100 were wounded.
On Thursday, an initial report from the Interior Ministry said Bhutto died of a gunshot wound to the neck.
Farzana Raja of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party said the government's explanation is "a pack of lies," and she offered another explanation. "It was a sniper shooting," she said, also accusing the government of a "total security lapse."
CNN national security analyst Ken Robinson, who worked in U.S. intelligence in Pakistan during the Clinton administration, said he suspects Bhutto's enemies are attempting to control her legacy by minimizing the attack's role in her demise.
"They're trying to deny her a martyr's death, and in Islam, that's pretty important," Robinson said.
the assassinations appear to be "bi-partisan"
maybe the only reason Musharraf survives is the security he ensures for himself ...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/28/2128571.htm?section=justin
Just to confirm that distance....interesting noi, that announcement on her cause of death says the bullets missed -
a) the bloke is no more that a couple of feet away ! - how could he miss??
b) and also if you watch CNN long enough, (after they "clarify" with the sunroof lever theory) they go on give an (earlier) article where a doctor (named) describes two bullet wounds, one entering her neck hitting her spine, going into her head etc
..........
Personally I would believe the bullet ....
and that they are "trying to deny her a martyr's death" ..
Also , lol - notice how quickly (in that "lever theory" version) the video skips over where the assassin is standing -
and official govt spokesman !!!
showing the final verdict of how she died!!
and , lol - not bothering to show you a clear image of the pistol ???
instead the camera pans past him at "blurr-speed"
they are so full of bs it's not funny.
THIS video shows much more detail...
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/bhutto.death/index.html?iref=mpstoryview#cnnSTCVideo
noiWith the car moving on what was probably a bumpy road it may have been more difficult than you think.
It does seem certain that she failed to obey instructions on leaving the secure area and remain inside the vehicle.
I suppose we are all guilty of delayed action. If the speed limit drops, so should we have reduced speed at the sign, not 10 or 20 metres after it.
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