Benazir Bhutto on My Mind

There are a few simple things I believe about Benazir Bhutto and her assassination. Those beliefs are as follows: 1) she was a presidential candidate whose qualities were on par with John Kennedy or Barack Obama; 2) she was powerful, intelligent, influential, beautiful, and posed a perceived threat to the male-dominated status quo; 3) she was too liberal for the current military establishment in Pakistan; 4) she was not fully supported by the United States; 5) she fell prey to a Pakistani regime that did not want to share power with her; and 6) she was assassinated by a Pakistani regime that knew it could get away with murder. The United States needs that regime to secure its own nuclear arms and to allow US Predators to fly over Pakistan. It is worth noting that the suspected al-Qaeda link to her assassination denied being involved. Why would a terrorist organization, which thrives on large-scale public displays of chaos and devastation, deny that it murdered a mega-profile presidential candidate with a message of political change? After all, wouldn't that terrorist organization feel that a civilian-run Bhuto administration would be far easier to infiltrate or to otherwise undermine? The details don't seem to fit so well.