Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Hamid Nawaz, is reporting today that it was not bullets that killed former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto after a rally yesterday, but a piece of bomb shrapnel which struck her in the head.  A report filed by doctors at the Rawalpindi General Hospital, where Bhutto was rushed after the attack, states that she had no bullet wounds to her body and that she died of a head wound, most likely from the bomb blast.

To no ones’ surprise, no autopsy was performed on Bhutto to determine the exact cause of death, which government officials have promised an investigation to find out why.  I’m not holding my breath.  They still have not even investigated the suicide bombing that killed more than 140 people at Bhutto’s homecoming parade in October, a blast that nearly took her life then.

It certainly creates the appearance that if Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf himself was not involved in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, which I do not believe he was because of the chaos that would result (and now has resulted) in an already barely-governable country, then certainly rogue elements within his corrupt government were complicit in her tragic and untimely death.