Distractions
Medical reports had at least one entry/exit pair, thorax or skull, mostly both, with brain matter protruding, and eye witnesses who transported the not yet pronounced body and who washed the pronounced corpse reported multiple entry/exit wound pairs to the neck and head.
The government selected the narratives of fatal self-injury, clarified subsequently to fatal secondary blast rebound. Definitely, no bullet wounds, no fragments either, in the body of Ms. Bhutto, according to the government.
Fixation on mechanism is a distraction from determination of agency.
This morning's dispatches in Le Monde had a quote from a woman in the vehicle directly behind Bhutto's vehicle, who recounted that she had just remarked with alarm to another person in the party that suddenly there were several unknown faces with Bhutto badges at the vehicle staging point and that she was looking away from the point of attack, distracted, when the first shot was fired.
There is footage of the shooter adjacent to another person prior to the attack, and footage of the shooter, firing, several times, at a distance of less than 4 meters from Ms. Bhutto.
Which puts the attack team at no less than two persons, and potentially larger, large enough to flood the security periphery and provoke the "sudden new faces with badges" impression in a survivor.
More than 800 people have been killed in bombings in Pakistan this year. It is unlikely that a single agency is the author of all of these operations, and in the history of political successions in Pakistan, the military and the intelligence service have acted with agency.
The Election Commission has now formally delayed the January 8th legislative election.
