Bhutto Hit's Head and Dies

Scotland Yard investigators agree with Pakistan's official story...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Scotland Yard investigators on Friday upheld Pakistani government findings that opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed by the force of a suicide bombing, dismissing her party's claim that the former prime minister died from gunshots moments earlier.

Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party immediately rejected the British findings and repeated its demand for a U.N. investigation into the Dec. 27 assassination. Party leaders want a broader, independent investigation because of their suspicions that political allies of President Pervez Musharraf may have been involved

If I remember correctly her body was buired 24 hours after her death. So no independent autopsy was performed, I guess. Plus, I'm assuming most of the sources of information for the Scotland Yard investigators were probably officials from the government.

In a report released Friday by British authorities in Islamabad, Home Office pathologist Dr. Nathaniel Cary said Bhutto suffered a massive injury on the right side of her head. Cary said the "only tenable cause" was the impact of the blast that went off as she waved to supporters from the hatch of her vehicle after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi.

"In my opinion Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto died as a result of a severe head injury sustained as a consequence of the bomb blast and due to head impact somewhere in the escape hatch of the vehicle," Cary said in the report.

Did the pathologist have access to the body? Did they dig up the corpse and re-examine the remains??? Well in the end, it doesn't really matter if she died of a gunshot wound or hit her head off the car because of the suicide bomber blast. She's still dead.