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Perhaps, but no matter who was behind Bhutto's assassination, one thing seems clear early in its aftermath: it has helped create the uproar and turmoil al-Qaeda has always seen as its best method of destabilizing enemy regimes it wants to replace. "To al-Qaeda, any means of bringing that about is fair game," the French counter-terrorism official notes, saying the group's active involvement or connivance in Bhutto's murder may be a mere detail compared to the result. "If its leaders thought political assassination of Musharraf's main rival would create real trouble for Musharraf himself...
...Pakistan buried Benazir Bhutto, many of her supporters there turned to violence to express their grief and anger over her assassination. In Britain, where Bhutto has lived off and on in self-imposed exile for eight years until her final return to Pakistan two months ago, the mourning has been quieter and more solemn. But the emotions are just as deep. Many of Britain's estimated 750,000 Pakistanis had embraced Bhutto as a symbol of hope for freedom and stability back home. As Britain's politicians pay tribute to a fallen leader, the country's Pakistanis are trying...
...annual pilgrimage to Mecca, and the contagious cheer of Christmas. Now, many of those neighborhoods have gone quiet, as Pakistanis - and, in solidarity, Muslims of other nationalities - pay their respects to their fallen heroine. In mosques across the country, Friday prayers were to include a special prayer for Bhutto, and for the past two days, neighbors have been gathering in town halls and community centers to commemorate...
...Bradford, a town in West Yorkshire with a Pakistani population of around 70,000, some 200 people came together at the local community center to offer their prayers. Rashid Awan, president of the Pakistan Society of West Yorkshire, remembers meeting Bhutto when she visited Bradford in October. "I adored her vision for the future of Pakistan," he says. "Everyone I spoke to last night said she was a courageous and visionary leader. This is not just a loss for Pakistan, but the whole international community. Had she been given the opportunity to lead Pakistan, there was a great hope that...
...Many of Britain's Pakistanis still have relatives in Pakistan, so every conversation about Bhutto is laced with the fear that her death could throw the country into civil war. Some feel that even now, the general election scheduled for Jan. 8 should go ahead, as an essential first step in the political healing process. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who yesterday called Bhutto a "woman of immense personal courage and bravery," today announced that he had encouraged Pakistan's President Perez Musharraf to push ahead with the elections, as much as an act of defiance against terrorism...