Benazir Bhutto killed in presumed suicide bomb

[dinny]

Shocking

Oh shit. Can barely imagine the sort of trouble this will cause.

omg i am so gutted and moved to tears by this - too sad but seemingly inevitable

Donnie, I agree it has to be Taleban, surely not Musharref
Was in Marks and Spencer at the sales of all bloody inappropriate locations when I saw this news come up
Devastating for Pakistan, the world and her family. Am so sad today

Terrible. It's hard to contemplate what might happen next. I thought she was incredibly brave to go back .... her death seemed inevitable.

Awful news. On a day of awful news it seems.

The stupid bastards havent helped their cause at all by killing her. They've just made her a martyr now. She'll be held in even higher regard (and rightly so). She was a brave woman to continue to fight for what she thought was right for her country (and not just for herself).

it's awful, just terrible. to go back after her dad and brothers. i remember hearing imran khan on the news when they took the judges and lawyers in, he seemed genuinely frightened. not a fan of his but the whole place seems to be on the edge.
it's amazing, the pakistanis i know here are so ordinary (for which read i would assume democratically-minded) it seems crazy that their relations in Pakistan don't have a stable govt and safe elections.

Its shocking and terrible. A great woman, what a terrible, terrible sad waste. Also a very close family how sad for them.

But why oh why did she stick her head out of the car??????

What does this mean now for Pakistan and the region now????

according to the news - she was shot first as she stood up out of the sunroof to wave on leaving a political rally. The assassin then blew himself up.

terrible - I got up to put tv on for the monkeys and sat just to see the news - that was the first thing we saw.

Just terrible. Realy shocked and sad

what a world, so sad.

I read something earlier, can't remember where now, which said she felt attempts on her life would most likely come from the Taleban (Afghanistan or Pakistan) or Al-Qaeda - not Musharraf.

Moved to tears, the world is worse without her.

She was a heroine of mine.

I feel for her family and her people.

Quite some woman.

I still can't believe it's true.

It's hard to believe Benazir Bhutto is no longer here, with her voice of reason. She has three children as well.

So sad. What an amazing woman. So very sad about this today.

They are saying she died due to a blow to the head when she hit the sun roof - not a bullet. Do they mean she was shot, fell and banged her head or she was getting back in the car and hit her head and the shots and bomb were afterwards?

i think i heard on the radio that she was ducking to avoid gunshot

they said no bullet was found in her body. I find it rather hard to believe tbh, that she ducked and banged her head hard enough to kill her. I wonder if it is political damage limitation.

Well the lastest video realeased shows someone pointing a gun towards her, she disappears into the car BEFORE the bomb went off...........so I think the "government" line doesn't really hold up too well......

I think they are trying to diminish her death in some way. "Died whacking her head on the sunroof" is not as historically resonant as "murdered by an assassin's bullet", is it.

If Pakistan descends into civil war and the fanatics get control they will have all those nukes. I am sure India will invade just to be safe.

At the very least I think we are looking at nuclear war in that region. Terrorists with nukes etc..

This is bad.

oh god help us.