Musharraf: Bhutto rechazó múltiples advertencias de inteligencia

January 7, 2008 (LPAC) -- Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf told CBS's "60 Minutes" that Pakistani intelligence had passed on multiple intelligence warnings, from their own intelligence service and from abroad, to Benazir Bhutto, but that she repeatedly ignored them, leading to both her own and hundreds of other deaths. He added that she breeched basic security policy by not getting quickly into her secured car and leaving quickly: "She did get into the car. Now that is the point - why did she stand outside the car?"

In regard to the first attempt on her life, on the day of her return on Nov. 18, Musharraf said: "Now in Karachi, we knew from Sheikh Mohammad Dubai, I mean, I got information, intelligence from him. We had our own intelligence. He sent intelligence that there are suicide bombers there targeting her. We told her this. And she knew it. We told her. Don't do it." He offered her a helicopter, but she insisted on the caravan. The bombers missed Benazir, but killed 145 people.

Musharraf also warned her specifically against the rally site in which she was killed, in Rawalpindi: "We again had intelligence that this is a dangerous place and there's a likelihood of a suicide attempt. We asked her not to go. She insisted she will go. We stopped her, and we got flack from all over the world, from media, from Western media."

The President, who, as LaRouche has emphasized, is a target, not a perpetrator, responded to CBS lies about Pakistan refusing to hunt down Osama bin Laden: "We have arrested or eliminated about 700 al Qaeda leaders. Only Pakistan has done it. And also, whoever has been killed or arrested, I challenge, who else, which other country has done this?"