Dick Cheney ordered Bhutto assassination: US Journo

The Pakistani newspaper the Nation reports that, Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the orders of the special death squad formed by former US vice-president Dick Cheney, which had already killed the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafique Al Hariri and the army chief of that country.”

The squad was headed by General Stanley McChrystal, the newly-appointed commander of US army in Afghanistan. It was disclosed by reputed US journalist Seymour Hersh while talking to an Arab TV in an interview.

Hersh said former US vice-president Cheney was the chief of the Joint Special Operation Command and he clear the way for the US by exterminating opponents through the unit and the CIA. General Stanley was the in-charge of the unit.

I guess we should expect a forthcoming New Yorker article featuring anonymous high-ranking officials who deliver quotes that fit perfectly into Hersh’s story. The problem is, while I can laugh at Hersh’s claims, when he makes them to an Arab audience where he is billed as a “reputed US journalist,” it can actually have a damaging effect and add fuel to anti-Americanism.

–Agencies