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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.

New Dehli: In fact, noone speaks it out; but there often is some kind of connection between a major massacre and a major deal. Actually it´s only not verified if this assassination of innocent civilians, regular people in Hyderabad three days ago was more about dragging India under control of the „Nuclear Suppliers Group“ (NSG) and US President Bush through the „123 agreement“ or into a possible war in the Middle East between the USA, France, Great Britain and Iran.

When Michael E. O‘Hanlon and Kenneth M. Pollack returned from Iraq they wrote in the „International Herald Tribune“ on July 30 (1): „The political debate in Washington is surreal. The Bush administration has over four years lost almost all credibility.“ Then, one more sentence: „Yet now the administration‘s critics, in part as a result, seem unaware of the significant changes taking place.“ Then, the clue about the fact, that the political debate in Washington is surreal and the Bush administration has lost almost all credibility over the past four years: „Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: The United States is finally winning in Iraq“. George Orwell´s ficticious O´Brien would have been proud of them. THE BOSNIA OPTION In a memo called „A Bosnia Option For Iraq“ (2) Michael E. O`Hanlon already presented his extrordinary abilities of profound logic. „Paradoxically, the explosion of sectarian violence and the onset of Balkans-style ethnic cleansing in much of Iraq may suggest an avenue toward stability“, O´Hanlon wrote in this „Brookings“ paper, modestly directed to „Potus“, who all mortal people just know as „President of the United States“. And then he used a well-known term by now – „soft partition“. But…

Berlin, Kunduz (Afghanistan): A week after the alleged terror attack on German forces in Kunduz, north of Afghanistan, it is still unclear what actually happened – and when.