Benazir Bhutto

[rm]

Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/pakistan.sharif/index.html

Comments

[torenheksje.livejournal.com]

Fucking barbarians.

[sociallyawkrd.livejournal.com]

This will not be good.

[rani23.livejournal.com]

Yup.

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Oh boy. This is going to be rather scary to watch unfold.

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

That's devastating. I'm almost shocked at how sad I am. It's strange that I'm unsurprised even while I can hardly believe it.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i started crying.

[miep.livejournal.com]

oh dear.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Jesus wept. Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't just be better to start the nuclear winter.

[tommx.livejournal.com]

I saw the news alert when I was at the bank this morning. I felt the blood literally drain from my face.

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

It's been confirmed then. It was still being speculated when I came into work this morning.

[browneyedgirl65.livejournal.com]

Dammit. I really thought she'd make it all the way through after so long.

[coridan.livejournal.com]

The US needs to end all support for Pakistan immediately, and demand Musharraf to acknowledge responsibility for this assassination and step down.

I wish we didn't need the fucking oil, and could disengage from all these shitty states.

The only good, bitter sweet thing now is that Bhutto is a martyr.

CB

[rahalia-cat.livejournal.com]

Dreadful news. Alas, since she returned to Pakistan it has seemed more a case of 'when' rather than 'if' this happened. Still, though, it's the worst news that the Indian subcontinent could possibly have borne at this time. Truly shocking.

[nickelchief.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of how I felt when Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. Why in the world.

Bad news on the doorstep

[lllvis.livejournal.com]

I heard about this too. Very, very sad news. I do wonder what the fallout will be - I figure her martyring will make things sway strongly, just don't know which way. I would hold out hope that those on her side will surge in strength and outrage and take steps to eradicate the more barbaric elements and bring their people to something more closely resembling sanity. It makes me wonder what will happen in the rest of that part of the world, how the other countries will react and either what obstacles they will present, or how they might pony up and aid the effort towards being less...fundamental.

[lachupacabra.livejournal.com]

ugh its really finally the beginning of the end, isnt it?
:(