Reply #9: My take (from a LBN thread) on Bhutto and the lies

[IDemo]

The evidence is overwhelming: she died of gunshot(s), and they lied, clumsily.

Or not?

Beyond trying to prevent her status as a martyr, could Musharraf's people actually have wanted it to be known that they lied about the cause of death? By doing so, they may well been trying to send a message: If we lied about this so transparently, then our political enemies will never know for sure how much complicity we had in the attack or how safe they will be in the future. Almost an implicit threat.