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Bhutto´s Day: Why Did The Camera Pan?
Von Daniel Neun | 29.Dezember 2007
Rawalpindi, Pakistan: After a lot of different versions of how opposition figure Benazir Bhutto allegedly died during her election campaign in this small Pakistani town, CNN published a video that apparently shows the moments of her assassination. The source of that video remains unclear.
Watch it (no embedding code:)
It´s a presentation by whoever, no original material. CNN is shooting a screen…
In the first part of the video the cameraman (handy style) is doing a close up of Benazir Bhutto. Cut. Different perspective. You see the vehicle, Bhutto is waving out of her car’s sunroof. Then the hand of somebody right and behind of her car becomes visually, with a gun. Three shots ring out, the hand is moving up from the backlash of the bullet, and one time in slow motion you see a short muzzle flash.
Cam is blurring, peope take cover, and a voice declares: “There´s the blast”.
But – before one can see the hand of the shooter, a second before the shooting is taking place, the camera pans in his direction. The shooter´s hand wouldn´t have been visible without that.
How can that be? There is a tremendous noise, the cameraman is at least 6 or 7 meters away from the gunman, a car is between them, you can see it in the video. How could anybody pan at that very moment to exactly that perspective without any pre-knowledge of the incident? There is no corner of a camera´s eye.
A lot of smoke – but where´s the fire?
“When she was thrown by the force of the shockwave of the explosion, unfortunately one of the levers of the sunroof hit her,” a spokesman for Pakistan’s Interior Ministry named Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema told the public of the world yesterday.
This strange explanation is the latest from the Interior Ministry. Initial reports said she “escaped injury when a suicide bomber attacked her” while a “spokesman” named Farhatullah Babar said, “Bhutto had already left the venue of the rally when the blast occurred”. (1)
A lot of medias reported about an alleged party security adviser who claimed that “Bhutto was shot in neck and chest as she got into her vehicle to leave the rally”, including Foxnews (2), Yahoo (3) and the “Washington post” (screenshot existent) who changed that story later, while Associated Press (4) and kpbs (5) still bring that story. Later a “Senator Babar Awan”, allegedly Bhutto’s lawyer, said, “The surgeons confirmed that she has been martyred.” (6)
But from what? Pakistan’s Interior Ministry initially said Bhutto was killed by shots fired by the bomber, and then, via the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan, it said she died of a “shrapnel injury” (7).
But how could she? Several seconds elapsed between the shots and the explosion as seen on the video. But “she was thrown by the force of the shockwave of the explosion, unfortunately one of the levers of the sunroof hit her,” like the spokesman for Pakistan’s Interior Ministry, Javed Iqbal Cheema, now is telling us? Didn´t she take cover when the shots were fired like all the others?
Who benefits?
A few days ago Pervez Musharraf said, Bhutto “may return as PM” the “Times” (8) reported on December 16. Obviously there was a deal between them, while former Prime Minister Navaz Sharif remained outside and got banned from the parliamentary elections in January. Sharif, like Bhutto ousted by General Musharraf eight years ago, had returned to Paktistan on November 25. (9)
But why this sudden offer to Bhutto? Well, a few days before that President Musharraf already had moved to take control of his country’s nuclear weapons. This move, which must be ratified by parliament within six months, formalises his control over the country’s arsenal – formerly a job for the prime minister. So that could be an explanation for his then-offer to Bhutto.(10)
Five days after this public offer by Musharraf to oppositional Bhutto – on December 21 – US SecDef Robert Gates warned that “Al Qaeda” would shift their emphasis to Pakistan, increasing the threat in that nation (11). Who took notice of that warning? And why did he warn, then?
A day before the assassination of Benazir Bhutto (and her quite quick done funeral) US defense officials announced that beginning early next year, U.S. Special Forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan, as part of an effort to “train and support” indigenous counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counterterrorism units. The Pentagon called Pakistan a new priority for the new head of the U.S. Special Operations Command, Adm. Eric T. Olson. Olson visited Pakistan in August, November and again this month, meeting with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman Gen. Tariq Majid and Lt. Gen. Muhammad Masood Aslam, commander of the military and paramilitary troops in northwest Pakistan. Olson also visited the headquarters of the Frontier Corps, a separate paramilitary force recruited from Pakistan’s border tribes. (12)
Couldn´t they have been just a little more cautious with their “priority”? Why didn´t anyone tell the (formerly?) US-backed oppositional leader Benazir Bhutto?
Well, there are rumours running around the planet that say, “once you are in, you have to win”, and that “there´s no alternative to victory”.
Just imagine leading a war instead of just taking part in it. Just imagine being a queen, a king, not just a pawn or doomed spy.
What would you have done?
What would you have done?
sources:
(1)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ab6DBTpQpMrU&refer=home
(2)
Foxnews (Cache)
(3)
Yahoo (Cache)
(4)
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h1aBshjF1CnfJ4noaEXA_Vb8dm-gD8TPRHD80
(5)
http://m.kpbs.npr.org/news.jsp?key=371046&rc=ne
(6)
http://www.24.com/news/?p=tsa&i=799393
(7)
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/pakistan.friday/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
(8)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3056688.ece
(9)
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL0630141120071125?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
(10)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/15/wpakistan115.xml
(11)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-gates22dec22,0,515388.story
(12)
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2007/12/musharrafs_woes_have_opened_a.html?nav=rss_blog
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