Juan Cole: Physicians Coerced & Threatened - By Military In Pakistan To Lie About Bhutto's Death

[kpete]

Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Musharraf's Watergate?
Physicians Coerced by Military;
Nawaz: Musharraf Must Go

It looks increasingly as though someone in the military government in Pakistan may have been somehow complicit in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

An attorney for the physicians who put out the story that Ms. Bhutto died of a concussion went to CNN on Monday and said that his clients were pressured by the military. They appear not to have actually agreed with the concussion story, and felt coerced but could not speak out because they had been threatened with being fired if they did.

So what we can conclude is that elements in the Pakistani military forced government physicians to deny that Bhutto was shot. But newly surfaced videotape shows conclusively that she slumped after shots rang out; and she did not throw her head back against the sun roof lever as the physicians were coerced into maintaining.

So, why did these military elements make the physicians file a false report? About that we can only speculate. But it should be noted that lying about a crime is usually a sign of guilt. If the military was completely uninvolved, why should it care how she died?

more at:
http://www.juancole.com/2008/01/musharrafs-watergate-physicians-coerced.html

[blogslut]

1. A K&R for Juan Cole

This is a man I trust and I take his opinions seriously.

[Recursion]

2. Actually there's a pretty obvious answer to the "why?"

If the military was completely uninvolved, why should it care how she died?

Because if they were responsible for keeping her from getting shot, it would be better for them if she had died by hitting her head.

[IndyOp]

3. Wow - I've heard the audio the doctor who was at the presser saying that he can

assure everyone that she died of concussion, 100% certainty, absolutely no bullets. It sounded odd.

:(

:shrug: