Report: Bhutto Died From Head Injury

December 28, 2007 · Filed Under Terrorism, World News

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, whose funeral was held today, died from injuries she suffered when hitting her vehicle’s sunroof according to one report.

The Interior Minister spokesman said a post mortem found no bullets or shrapnel in her body, but an autopsy was not performed. Pakistani officials claim that an investigation is under way to determine why an autopsy wasn’t performed.

Regardless of what exactly caused her to die, the Interior Minister insisted that Al Qaeda was responsible for the attack. He claims that intelligence officials intercepted a phone call about a plot to kill the former Prime Minister.

“We have intelligence intercepts indicating that al Qaeda leader Baitullah Mehsud is behind her assassination,” ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema told a news conference.”

Mehsud is one of Pakistan’s most wanted militant leaders and is based in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border.

Cheema said authorities had recorded an intercept on Friday morning in which Mehsud had congratulated his people for carrying out the attack.

He also said Mehsud was behind a suicide bomb attack on Bhutto in Karachi that killed about 140 people hours after she arrived back in the country from eight years of exile on October 18 this year.