Unless you've been living under a rock the last few weeks, you probably have heard the horrible news from Pakistan about the assassination of the former twice Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.  It is not still clear as to who was behind this assassination, although the Bush Administration and the current president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf were quick to point their fingers at the usual suspects Al Qaeda and Islamic extremists. As the Church Lady from Saturday Night Live would say, "hmmm, how conveeeeenient."  Of course it is not beyond the realm of possibility that either one of these groups could have been the perpetrator, especially given Bhutto's record in ‘opposing' Islamic extremism and her attempt to bring in some form of ‘modernity' to the country. But it is also not entirely inconceivable that Musharraf himself could have had a hand in it with some help from the US administration. After all, John Negroponte made a trip to Pakistan recently under the guise of a ‘diplomatic mission'. Of course, those who know Mr. Negroponte's background  can deduce what that mission could have been about.  Strangely enough, a visit from Mr. Negroponte in any country is followed by a sudden taste for blood by some groups, emergence of death squads everywhere, assassination of political leaders, instability in the country etc.... very strange. Well, I guess the guy just has bad luck following him everywhere he goes.

It may not be an over statement to say that the repercussion of Benazir Bhutto's assassination could very well be a catastrophic one the likes of which can be compared to the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria , which was the spark that lit the flames of World War I.  After all, Pakistan is one of the few countries that have nuclear weapons in one of the most volatile regions in the world and is also safe haven to some of the most militant Islamic extremists.

In the process of following Bhutto's story last month, I came across an interview she did with ‘Sir' David Frost, a well respected journalist on "Al Jazeera English". In this 14 minute interview, Frost was asking Bhutto about the first assassination attempt on her life back in October and the former twice PM of Pakistan, who probably had solid and trustworthy sources in the region, made a rather startling...no wait...an earth shattering revelation.  About 5 minutes into the interview, Bhutto, in describing who she thought were behind the first assassination attempt, mentions the name Omar Sheik as the man who "murdered Osama Bin Lade"...WHAT????  Murdered Osama Bin Laden????   What was more interesting was that Frost does not even pause to ask a question about what Bhutto said. Was David Frost, whose program is ironically called "frost over the world", putting the Osama story, which really is the bigger story here, on ice? Or better yet, is Osama's body being kept on ice somewhere already to be brought out at the appropriate time by the ‘good guys' who are fighting this so called ‘war on terror'?  The appropriate response from Frost at that point should have been, ‘Wait wait wait...one bloody second...back up a bit.  Did you just say the man who murdered Osama Bin Laden?' Any sensible journalist would have asked that question, because the Osama murder story trumps all the other peripheral stories, including Bhutto's assassination attempt and her bid to un-sit her opponent Musharraf, whose only reason for being in power is his ties with the US administration to fight the so called war on terror whose very symbol is none other than Osama Bin Laden. 
 
This also raises another question about the Western world and its media.  If David Frost, a well know and reputable journalist, lets this nugget of information go by without so much as a blink of an eye, how can we take what these journalists have to say about anything seriously? What could be more important than this?  Is Frost covering something up or does he think that this is a non-story?  And how about the US media?  Did anyone of the major US media outlets pick this up?  You would think this is would be a front-page news around the world.  It's been over 2 months since the interview was conducted, but not one news outlet has even said a word about it.
 
And finally, is there any doubt that the Bush administration, and maybe perhaps even the British counter parts, with the help of their lap dog media, have been playing people around the world with this Emanuel Goldstein like face of terror which is Osama Bin Laden? And could Mrs. Bhutto let something slip out that the US administration did not want to get out? Makes you wonder, doesn't it? 

Well, watch the video and see for yourself.



Chereka