A Tragic Loss for Pakistan and the World.
Mark Siegel, long time friend and adviser to Prime Minister Bhutto, was my speech writing instructor and mentor while attending graduate school at The American University in Washington D.C. He co-wrote Bhutto’s newest book “Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West.
It is reported that he received a private email from Bhutto in October, a week after she survived an assassination attempt upon her return to Pakistan, which told him that if she was murdered, President Musharraf should be held complicit in her death due to his refusal to meet several safety requests she had made. Mr. Siegel promised to keep the message private until after her death.
The email was first revealed Thursday by another friend of Mr. Siegel’s, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. He apparently sent Blitzer the email on Oct. 26, with the condition that he not report on it until after Bhutto’s death. No other journalists were sent the email.
Siegel said Bhutto sent the email one week after returning to Pakistan on Oct. 18 to run in an election. Her Pakistan Peoples Party was expected to win the majority of Parliamentary seats. A failed assassination attempt that killed 179 supporters during a celebration to mark her return prompted Bhutto to send him the message, he said.
According to reports, Bhutto wrote that she had been made to feel insecure by Musharraf’s “minions” and had not received the requested improvements to her security.
It is reported that Mr. Siegel said she had been stopped from taking private cars with tinted windows and had not received radio jammers or four police escorts — as she had requested.
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New Year’s Resolutions for 2008
Save a life with a net, inspire laughter with a ball; fund a business for the poor. And do it all online.
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Roger Clemens makes a video statement concerning the accusations made against him in the recently issued Mitchell report on steroid use in Major League Baseball.
Clemens diarrhea of the mouth at this week’s 3:
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Impact of Iowa and NH in Elections Past?
Gallup Poll editor-in-chief, Frank Newport, gives us some history on the impact of these early primary contests. Apparently, a win sometimes makes all the difference, and sometimes it doesn’t help at all.
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The Most Inspirational Video of 2007
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