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Maybe it is nothing but a slip of tongue on the part of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto but her interview with David Frost is important in many aspects. While sifting through YouTube I came across this portion of the interview which was uploaded on the day of her assassination. In this chunk which was edited out of the program screened on television Benazir Bhutto makes a huge assertion with relative ease. She claims that Osama bin Laden is dead and he was killed by none other than Omar Shaikh Muhammad. Now I know this could be a slip of the tongue and she could have been referring to Daniel Pearl’s murder at the hands of OSM but there are reasons why I doubt it. First, the video that I am reproducing below she is speaking with such a composure that there is not an iota of chance of a memory lapse. When she has spoken this long without a single fumble why would she now. More worrying than that is the fact that an old hand like Frost who is so skilled at handling people on air did not bother to intervene. This is real time grab folks and any interruption would have come to our notice. Again of late she had taken to mentioning Osama’s sons and not he himself as a threat. Why would she have this shift of focus? It is apparent that like this interview claim of Osama’s death would have been edited out from her book. And as for Omar Shaikh I have discussed his dubious profile in detail in the past. Then add to it the fact that this portion was never aired. When you see the video you’ll notice that there is no Al-Jazeera logo on the screen. Hence this comes from an unedited version. You can see it in this video and even in her book. Someone from the editorial or production team thought it important enough to smuggle it to YouTube. And equally striking is the fact that none of the mainstream media has thus far picked it. What it means, I really don’t know? Yet I allowed my imagination to drift. Could this be the reason why she is dead and why the pro-establishment folks do not want to go to the UN for investigation? But before I elaborate that I want you to see the video so that no doubt remains. (Blogger friends, I am facing some very serious bandwidth issues which I do not think would be over before the 1st of June. There is a chance that my website may not be available for a couple of days. If someone of you chooses to copy the post in its entirety please let me know so that I can refer people to that link before the site lapses. Also if you do not find the video available on YouTube please mail me on pitafi@gmail.com and I’ll mail you my copy or give another link to download it from to avoid burdening your site. I am placing the same copy on my review site: http://review.clanteam.com. Those who want to bookmark should bookmark that site instead. Regards, Farrukh)

The Video

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I know many of you would say that it is not possible because Osama has spoken many a times on camera. Well if you remember his last authenticated video address was on the eve of the US Presidential elections. In order to show what an ordinary man can do with technology please see the following animation. Imagine what the world’s sole superpower can do with it.

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There are uncountable links that are available to show that Osama’s last interview was a fake. Now why would anyone want to hide the fact that Osama is dead? And how did Benazir got a hint of that? For the former I can say this: the threat of Osama’s existence is dead useful. It allows the neocons to continue their war on terror. It allows men like Musharraf, Karzai and Zalmay Khalilzad to stay in favorable light in the west and in power. It lets the narco trade in Afghanistan continue to flourish under the garb of the terror war. Finally it helps what Chomsky calls the US Defence Industrial Complex to siphon the US and the western taxpayers’ money to invent far more terrible weapons and hence further consolidate power. To the latter I must say that Benazir was a politician of international stature and it was natural that more than just the US (or other western) and Pakistani governments were in contact with her. It is clear that both of these countries do not have a monopoly over either Afghanistan or verifiable intelligence. Benazir could then well have obtained this information (if information it was) from any of independent sources. Was she murdered because she knew too much, still remains to be seen through a UN probe.
Those who are opposed to the very notion of UN conducting the probe keep saying that it would create a dangerous precedent and many skeletons in the cupboard would be exposed. On the face of it this sounds a hollow argument. Every Pakistani secret has been badly exposed in the last nine years. What more damage could be done? But given the fact that this objection comes from those who have traditionally supported Musharraf and that Benazir had blamed Musharraf’s administration directly, there may well be new skeletons in the cupboard. The empathy with which the US and the UK have digested this incident may also point to such a complacence.
Those who oppose this investigation point out that the UN could include someone from India or Israel in the commission as if the UN only wanted to humiliate Pakistan. Perhaps the best thing for the UN would be, if and when it chooses to establish a mission to keep India and Israel along with Pakistan, Afghanistan, the US and the UK out of the commission’s membership. Then there would be any objection left to this probe. This is a very crucial matter and Pakistan deserves cooperation from everyone around the world.

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