U.S. journalist claims Cheney ordered the Bhutto assassination!
NEW YORK - May 18, 2009 -A special death squad assassinated Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on the orders of former U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney, an Arab TV channel has reported.
“Cheney was the chief of the Joint Special Operations Command and he cleared the way for the U.S. by exterminating opponents through the unit and the CIA. General Stanley was in-charge of the unit,” The Nation quoted U.S. columnist Seymour Hersh as saying.
The U.S. death unit killed Bhutto because she had told Al-Jazeera TV about the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, said Hersh.
The U.S. leadership did not want Osama to be declared dead. It would have raised questions about the U.S. Army’s presence in Afghanistan, he claimed.
According to Hersh, the former Lebanese PM Rafique Al Hariri and the army chief were murdered for not safeguarding U.S. interests and for refusing to set up U.S. military bases in Lebanon.
Ariel Sharon, then the Prime Minister of Israel, was also a key man in the plot, he said.
