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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 28, 2007, Winnipeg, Manitoba Binazir Bhutto 1953 2007 dec. 28 8 30am 9pm dec. 29 8 30am 6pm dec. 30 closed dec. 31 8 30am 4 30pm City wide delivery & setup still included wow. Advance. My. Ca. Continues the original electronics boxing Day Bonanza open today 8 30am to 9pm still hundreds of outstanding savings in store surround sound speakers a div cd plasma Home & car audio sub woofers Tower loudspeakers portable audio car audio decks digital imaging computers Home audio components democracy needs support and the Best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should. Come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a Universal value democracy. Excerpt from Binazir bhuttos1989 speech at Harvard University. Winnipeg free press Friday december 28, 2007 a5 Winnipeg repress. Com by Kathy Gannon i Islamabad Pakistan Binazir Bhutto was the target of threats from virtually All of the militant groups who make Pakistan their Home from Al Aida to Homegrown terrorists to tribal insurgents near Afghanistan. Her assassination after a rally in the Garrison City of Rawalpindi where the country is military and intelligence services Are based also focused anger and suspicion on the government of president Pervez Musharraf. The former prime minister had blamed Al Aida the Taliban and Homegrown militants for a suicide bombing that that Tore through a procession welcoming her Back from exile to Lead her opposition party in parliamentary elections. But she accused militant sympathizers in Musharraf is administration of backing the attempt on her life. Bhutto is supporters chanted killer killer Musharraf outside the Hospital where she was pronounced dead. Al Aida is no. 2, Ayman Al Zawaheri decried Bhutto is return in a video message this month and called for attacks on All the candidates in the Jan. 8 elections. And according to Bhutto several pakistanis arrested in an assassination attempt during her second term in the mid 1990s said they were following Osama bin Ladenes orders. The u. S. Backed British educated woman who forcefully pledged to redouble pakistanis fight against islamic Militancy was also despised by Taliban style radicals backed by tribes along the afghan Border. Bai Tullah me Sud a tribal warlord in the Waziristan Region was quoted in a pakistani newspaper As saying that he would Welcome Bhutto is return from exile with suicide bombers. He later denied that in statements to local television and newspaper reporters. Bhutto also was labelled an infidel by other groups such As Jaichul Mohammed Lashkar e Tayyaba and Herb us Mujahideen which were spawned by pakistanis military and intelligence services to take on India in the disputed Kashmir Region. The groups later aligned themselves with Al Aida and have vowed to Battle foreign troops in Afghanistan and wage War against the pakistani military for its support of the u. S. Led anti terror Campaign. Some of their leaders have said Bhutto deserved to die for her threats to crush militants. I think by far the most Likely suspect is the Al Aida organization which has been trying to kill Bhutto for the better part of the decade said Bruce Riedel a senior fellow at the Brookings institution and former senior director for South Asia on the National Security Council. If its not them its certainly one of the groups that Are sympathetic with them Riedel said. They All work together and share a common antipathy to Bhutto because Sheds a woman an advocate of secularism a supporter of democracy and everything they stand against. Retired army Gen. Hamid Gul a former head of pakistanis inter services intelligence secret service Agency questioned the Security arrangements made for Bhutto is rally. A cordon of police surrounded the Park where Bhutto spoke yet her attacker was Able to get to the rear Gate where he shot her As she was leaving and then detonated himself according to witnesses. How could they enter with so much of a police cordon. I am surprised Gul said in an interview with the associated press. A Washington based Friend of Bhutto is Mark Siegel told can that the former prime minister had been very concerned that she was not getting the Security that she had asked for including devices used to Jam cellphone signals. She had asked for special tinted cars she had asked for four vehicles to surround her at All times Siegel said. All of that was denied to her. Gul also asserted that a suicide bomber have carried out the attack without being forewarned of Bhutto is movements with a cellphone or other device. Bhutto had complained after the october assassination attempt in the City of Karachi that devices used to Jam cellphone signals had not been working Gul said. Why were the hammers not working she had been begging the government after the attack in Karachi saying the hammers were faulty then he said. I know that these things could not occur if the hammers Are working. Gul said i think it is convenient to put the blame on Al Aida. But there Are other possibilities and they have to be examined he said. The associated press Al Aida Heads Long list of probable assassins b. K. Bangash / associated press a supporter in Rawalpindi Pakistan mourns the death of Binazir Bhutto ;