Forget Bhutto, It's The Stans

(Conspiracy Nation, 12/28/07) -- "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." Forget it, conspiracy theorist. It's the Stans.

Pakistan, part of the Stans, those asian countries whose names end in "stan", witnessed an assassination yesterday. Benazir Bhutto was shot dead by a zombie, just as earlier this month a different zombie was unleashed in an Omaha shopping mall.

Another zombie unleashment occurred in San Francisco a few days ago. There, a tiger somehow escaped its zoo enclosure and killed and mauled persons. In the tiger case, the radar indicates a cover-up. Early reports received by police were that several tigers had escaped. Newfakers put out a "taunted tiger" narrative, then changed it to a low wall narrative. The most obvious reason, that a cage door had been open, is discountenanced. The tiger terror is traced to repressed hostility, similar to how savage dogs somehow get loose in neighborhoods.

The Bhutto murder roughly marks the winter solstice. Last year, the winter solstice coincided with the botched hanging of Saddam Hussein. The 2007 Easter (equinox) was marked by the symbolic crucifixion of Don Imus. Then, around the autumn equinox, rumors began to be heard: "He (Imus) has risen."

When Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, Sherman H. Skolnick almost immediately cried out, "The guards permitted it!" So too in the case of Benazir Bhutto. "The most astounding aspect of Thursday's events is the negligence displayed by Bhutto's security detail." ("Conspiracy theories abound over Benazir Bhutto slaying," by Yossi Melman. Haaretz, Dec. 28, 2007). Imran Khan, long-time friend of Bhutto, "said he was shocked that assassins got so close to her." ("How did the killers get so close to Bhutto?" by Richard Edwards. London Telegraph, Dec. 28, 2007)

Conveniently, a Lee Harvey Oswald almost immediately appeared and took responsibility for the Bhutto slaying. Big Al Qaeda did it. Case closed. Except already speculation leads elsewhere as to those responsible. Because yesterday's zombie blew himself to pieces after his deed, it becomes difficult to immediately identify whose man he is. ("Whose man are you?" demanded Bill the Butcher of the dying failed assassin, in "Gangs Of New York"). It was India that plotted Bhutto's death, to discredit Pakistan. No, it was Musharraf, her political rival. No, it was former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. (Melman, op. cit.)

The "Sharif did it" angle is that, aligned with Bhutto, Sharif is now a shoo-in to win big in upcoming Pakistani elections.

Who will benefit? (Cui bono?) Will U.S. forces enter Pakistan "to restore order"?

We learn from Haaretz (Melman, op. cit.) that Pakistan is "considered one of the world's most fertile breeding grounds for conspiracy theories..." We did not know this before. On the map where it says "Pakistan," put "fertile breeding grounds for conspiracy theories." Pakistan is also in the business of cement, fertilizer, gas, oil terminal and distribution, breakfast cereals, and steel companies. ("Musharraf's Core Constituency," by C. N. Anand. Desicritics.org, Dec. 28, 2007)

But do we here in the U.S. really care about that faraway land called Pakistan? We vaguely know it is one of those "stan" places. So forget it, Jake. It's Pakistan.

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