Manner of death

We now have three "official" stories about the death of Benazir Bhutto: She died of a bullet wound. She died of bomb shrapnel. She died bumping her head while trying to duck out of harm's way.

I can easily imagine a situation in which all three wounds appear on her body. All three wounds would have been inflicted in very rapid order.

So how would a medical examiner determine which of the three wounds was fatal? Perhaps a reader with the proper training can enlighten us...

Larisa has some interesting commentary on the topic. She notes that the American right has begun a Bhutto-Hate campaign, which is an interesting development. From the New York Post:

In fact, Bhutto was a frivolously wealthy feudal landlord amid bleak poverty. The scion of a thieving political dynasty, she was always more concerned with power than with the wellbeing of the average Pakistani.

"The scion of a thieving political dynasty..." Oh, the irony!

Indian intelligence apparently believes that Al Qaeda is not responsible for the Bhutto hit...

“This is not the usual Al Qaeda modus operandi,” an analyst said. The Indian agencies believe the strike was rehearsed and involved several people. “It was a highly planned, highly motivated, highly integrated plan. Otherwise it wouldn’t have happened the way it did,” a senior intelligence operative told DNA.

“It was a meticulous insider job, probably. People would have been bought because massive support is needed do something like this.”

Sources said if the bomber was so close to Bhutto, the vehicle would not have survived the blast, as it did. The bomb was so powerful that the assassin’s head was found some 75 feet away from the site, according to Indian assessment.