Investigator details Taliban chief's alleged role in Bhutto's death
source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/17/pakistan.bhutto.investigation/index.html
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Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud paid out more than $7,000, including money to purchase suicide jackets, for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the chief Pakistani investigator said Sunday.
Four suspects in custody said Mehsud also planned the December 27 attack, Chaudhry Abdul Majeed told reporters.
Mehsud, who has ties to al Qaeda, remains at large.
Majeed said two of the four men in custody last week confessed before a Pakistani judge that they had participated in the plot.
Many others who helped plan the attack "have yet to be arrested," Majeed said.
A day after Bhutto's death, Pakistan's government announced that Mehsud was behind the attack. The CIA later reached the same conclusion.
But two recent nationwide polls in Pakistan found a majority of Pakistanis believe President Pervez Musharraf's government had a role in her killing.
Four suspects in custody said Mehsud also planned the December 27 attack, Chaudhry Abdul Majeed told reporters.
Mehsud, who has ties to al Qaeda, remains at large.
Majeed said two of the four men in custody last week confessed before a Pakistani judge that they had participated in the plot.
Many others who helped plan the attack "have yet to be arrested," Majeed said.
A day after Bhutto's death, Pakistan's government announced that Mehsud was behind the attack. The CIA later reached the same conclusion.
But two recent nationwide polls in Pakistan found a majority of Pakistanis believe President Pervez Musharraf's government had a role in her killing.
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Swizzle2
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I'm sure President Bush loves this. It reeks of him. Taliban and al Qaeda. I'm sure they confessed, it gives them more press. The majority of Pakistanis are the correct ones however... President Musharraf is blatantly behind this tragedy.
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