Bhutto Assassination

On November 2, 2007, David Frost interviewed Benazir Bhutto, at which time she says she had sent a letter to Musharraf telling him where to look if she were to be assassinated, naming individuals who might be financing the extremists carrying out the suicide bombings.

What is very strange is that she casually mentions Omar Sheikh as "the man who murdered Osama Bin Laden."

Bloggers and blog readers are discussing it a-plenty, with many suggesting she made a slip and meant to say Daniel Pearl. But how strange that she doesn't notice what she's said, nor does David Frost bat an eye. Was he listening to what she was saying? (The entire interview is here, and it's never mentioned again or cleared up.)

I would think there might have been some news agencies digging into it or even a follow-up on the Frost show after surely some viewers wrote in or called, or an editor noticed it, but I can't find anything.

What's that all about?

Addendum:

Pakistani police abandoned their protective posts before Bhutto was shot.

Report from a McClatchy special correspondent at the scene:

Three to five shots were fired at her, witnesses said. She was hit in the neck and slumped back in the vehicle. Blood poured from her head, and she never regained consciousness. Moments after the shooting, there was a huge explosion to the left of the vehicle.

[...]

Police officers had frisked the 3,000 to 4,000 people attending Thursday's rally when they entered the park, but as the speakers from Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party droned on, the police abandoned many of their posts. As she drove out through the gate, her main protection appeared to be her own bodyguards, who wore their usual white T-shirts inscribed: "Willing to die for Benazir."

  McClatchy

There is now a new official report on Bhutto’s death, claiming she died from hitting her head on her car, rather than from being shot. No autopsy was performed. CNN’s Ken Robinson suggests that is a political ploy to try to deny her a martyr’s death.