Bhutto assassin 'used laser beam'

[Beowulf]

PAKISTAN opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed not by an assassin's bullet but by sophisticated "laser beam technology", it was claimed yesterday.

Members of Ms Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) claimed their former leader was felled by laser beams, which caused massive head injuries.

Sources claimed reports of gunshots fired at Ms Bhutto as she waved to crowds from the sunroof of her van and subsequent bomb blast were a "decoy to hide the real shooters".

When Ms Bhutto was admitted to Rawalpindi General Hospital shortly after the attack on her on December 27, doctor Musaddiq Khan, who treated her, told a PPP leader he had seen "such a case for the first time in his life", The Nation newspaper reported.

PPP sources told the paper that after the suicide attack, the "ambulance also picked up a dead body behind the stage of Liaquat Bagh" in Rawalpindi, the venue of an election rally Ms Bhutto had addressed.

The mystery surrounding Ms Bhutto's murder deepened yesterday with the Pakistani Government backing off earlier statements that Ms Bhutto died not from a bullet but because the force from a suicide blast forced her head into a sunroof crank, crushing her skull.

After increasing public uproar over the government investigation, the Interior Ministry issued a statement yesterday saying there was "no intention to conceal anything from the people of Pakistan".

Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz even asked the public and the media to forgive and ignore the comment made last week about the sunroof by Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema.

Mr Cheema said he based his statement about the sunroof lever "on the initial investigations and the reports by medical doctors" who treated Ms Bhutto.

He said the ministry would wait for forensic investigators to finish their report before making any more conclusions about her cause of death.

"I was just narrating the facts, you know, nothing less, nothing more," he said yesterday.

But the medical report - criticised by many as unprofessional and simply clinical notes - said nothing about a sunroof.

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[Wanderer]

Does such a laser exist to even pull that off?

[CaptainChewbacca]

Does such a laser exist to even pull that off?

Since they don't say what KIND of massive head injuries, we don't know. If her head was burned severely, then maybe.

Of course, such a weapon doesn't officially exist, and definitely wouldn't be in Pakistan if it did.

[Androsphinx]

Beyond parody. I'm just glad that these people's chance of getting to run Pakistan again are near to zero.

[SpacedTeddyBear]

Does such a laser exist to even pull that off?

Oh any laser class 3b and up can potentially kill you. It depends on how long you're willing to stand there to allow someone with a 300mw+ ND:YAG laser try to burn a hole through your head. So I guess the answer is no, unless you want to go to the NIF facility in Livermore Labs.

[Sea Skimmer]

Does such a laser exist to even pull that off?

Lasers sure do exist that can kill a person near instantly, but they’d do that via a whole lot of burning, not blunt or piercing trauma as you’d get from a human skull being hit by bullets or smashing up against a car (the two far more realistic reports of what killed her). Course, those lasers are also the sort of thing you need multiple large trucks to haul around, followed by hours or even days of setup time if you have any realistic mobility at all. Besides which no part of this claim makes sense to start with. Why for example would you fire guns or set off a bomb as a decoy before hitting someone with an silent and invisible laser beam that’s ultra accurate at any range it could kill at?

So basically this is a bunch of utter bullshit dreamed up for no useful reason.

[Azazal]

Do I detect "Dr" Julie Wood near by??

[1138]

Do I detect "Dr" Julie Wood near by??

Do you mean Judy Wood, who proposed that the WTC were knocked down by a space based weapon? I was reminded of that too, especially after having to discuss 9/11 conspiracy theories with people who don't think things through before believing in it.

What I don't understand is what's the motive for claiming that a laser weapon was used for assassination.

[Winston Blake]

What I don't understand is what's the motive for claiming that a laser weapon was used for assassination.

A super-ultra-laser-blaster would mean it wasn't simply bargain basement terrorists. Instead, it must be high-tech, high-level plot orchestrated by whatever government figures her supporters see as enemies.

[Stuart]

Does such a laser exist to even pull that off?

Did you know it snowed in Baghdad last weekend?

If a laser was involved, I'd bet it was a laser sight fitted to a handgun. They make snap shooting much easier. They're cheap, USD300 or thereabouts and easily obtainable.

[Sidewinder]

Sounds like the Pakistanis are trying to pin Bhutto's death on someone other than Pakistani extremists, e.g., the CIA. Maybe 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' should be banned in Pakistan so the people there won't get stupid ideas like this.

[Gil Hamilton]

Was the assassin a mutated sea bass?

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

Why not an Ion Cannon?

[Stormin]

Why not an Ion Cannon?

Because nobody over there would look good saying "Now it is time, we must destroy G.D.I!"

[18-Till-I-Die]

I think you're all dismissing this too early.

Clearly she just pissed off Cobra, so they sent some of the more fatalistic Vipers to down her ass, kamikaze style.

[Oskuro]

Clearly she just pissed off Cobra...

I knew it!

[Surlethe]

Looks like Pakistan has its JFK now. I wonder if conspiracy theories like this will just keep growing around Bhutto's death.

[Sarevok]

Looks like Pakistan has its JFK now. I wonder if conspiracy theories like this will just keep growing around Bhutto's death.

Pakistan has several JFKs already if you count all the previous state leaders who were assasinated in mysterious circumstances