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| Bhutto killing blamed on al-Qaeda | Bhutto killing blamed on al-Qaeda |
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| Pakistan says it has strong proof that al-Qaeda assassinated opposition politician Benazir Bhutto at an election rally on Thursday. | Pakistan says it has strong proof that al-Qaeda assassinated opposition politician Benazir Bhutto at an election rally on Thursday. |
| The interior ministry said it had intelligence indicating Baitullah Mehsud, whom it called an "al-Qaeda leader", was behind the killing. | The interior ministry said it had intelligence indicating Baitullah Mehsud, whom it called an "al-Qaeda leader", was behind the killing. |
| Baitullah Mehsud is a wanted pro-Taleban militant leader based in the South Waziristan tribal region. | Baitullah Mehsud is a wanted pro-Taleban militant leader based in the South Waziristan tribal region. |
| Ms Bhutto has been buried in her family tomb amid scenes of mass grieving. | Ms Bhutto has been buried in her family tomb amid scenes of mass grieving. |
| Video of her last moments before the attack in Rawalpindi was shown at the news conference given in Islamabad by the interior ministry. | Video of her last moments before the attack in Rawalpindi was shown at the news conference given in Islamabad by the interior ministry. |
| Addressing reporters, ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said the primary cause of Ms Bhutto's death appeared to have been a knock on her head as she tried to duck her attacker, and not bullets or shrapnel. | |
| A surgeon who treated her, Dr Mussadiq Khan, had earlier said she may have died from a shrapnel wound. | |
| Brig Cheema added that all possible security arrangements had been put in place for Ms Bhutto. | |
| Her supporters say the government did not do enough to protect her. | Her supporters say the government did not do enough to protect her. |
| After a previous attempt on her life in October, Ms Bhutto accused rogue elements of the Pakistani intelligence services of involvement. | After a previous attempt on her life in October, Ms Bhutto accused rogue elements of the Pakistani intelligence services of involvement. |
| 'Congratulations' | |
| Pakistani intelligence services had intercepted a call from Baitullah Mehsud in which he allegedly congratulated another militant after Bhutto's death, Brig Cheema said. | |
| There was, he added, "irrefutable evidence that al-Qaeda, its networks and cohorts were trying to destabilise Pakistan". | |
| Talking about the cause of Ms Bhutto's death, the spokesman said she had died from a head wound. | |
| It was, he said, sustained when she smashed against the sunroof's lever as she tried to shelter inside the car from the gunman, who set off a bomb after opening fire with a gun. | |
| "The lever struck near her right ear and fractured her skull," he said. | |
| "There was no bullet or metal shrapnel found in the injury." | |
| Ms Bhutto's security adviser Rehman Malik had earlier said she had been shot in the neck and chest by the gunman. |