Sunday, March 9, 2008

Bhutto's Assassination

Well it looks like Scotland Yard's report on Bhutto's assassination will not be published anytime soon. I suspect they don't want to be embarrassed by shamefully sloppy work. I'm not talking about the technical details, but of the obvious questions that are ignored by the report, as evidenced by excerpts that are available. There are many, but the two biggest in my view are these:

1. They do not explain why they did not investigate who ordered the hosedown of the crime scene. It is not hard to find out something like that. If the authorities will not cooperate, they should say so.

2. Why is the injury on the right side of her head instead of the left? The report implies that she was thrown into the escape hatch. But that is rather silly. She is inside the vehicle. The blast is outside. The left side of the car could be instantly compressed, driving the left side of the escape hatch into her skull. But her body does not feel the blast pressure directly, so she can't be thrown with that much force into the right side. Put another way, if a rightward velocity is imparted to her body, a greater rightward velocity will be imparted to the car, which has a much larger surface area and is exposed to the blast directly. The relative velocity of her body to the car will be leftward. (A 'swingback' of the car would occur much too slowly to cause such violent damage.)

Watch the video and decide for yourself:

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