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Am 27. Dezember 2007 wurde Bhutto das Opfer eines Attentats - zwei Wochen vor der geplanten Parlamentswahl (Quelle, Presseerklärung Scotland Yard).
Am gleichen Tag verbreitete sich dieser Video-Auschnitt mit einem sensationell wirkenden Statement aus dem Frost-Interview wie ein Lauffeuer im Internet und findet sich inzwischen auf mehreren tausend Webseiten (siehe GOOGLE-Ergebnis):
Benazir Bhutto: Bin Laden was Murdered
Bhutto hat tatsächlich entsprechendes gesagt - aber hat sie es auch gemeint? Zwei Aspekte sprechen dagegen:
1. Es handelt sich um das einzige Statement dieser Art. Vor und nach diesem Interview enthielten ihre Statements stets die gegenteilige, gängige Behauptung:
09. Juni 2007, Times of India:
In an article in the Wall Street Journal which reads like an indictment of the Musharraf regime, Bhutto accused him of not coming down harshly on Taliban or making serious efforts to apprehend Osama bin Laden. [...]
She said, "Although tribal terrain offers many opportunities for resistance, there is another reason why Osama bin Laden has not yet been intercepted -- or that the Taliban find such easy sanctuary once again.[...]
"If the Taliban are eliminated, or if their poster-boy Osama bin Laden is caught, the international cries for restoration of democracy will only deepen. Musharraf's regime needs the threat of an 'Islamist takeover' to keep the rest of the world community supportive of its continued grip over Pakistan."
08. Juli 2007, WELT Online Interview (siehe auch FAKTuell):
HAQ: Glauben Sie, dass Al-Qaida-Chef Osama Bin Laden noch lebt, und wenn ja, was glauben Sie, wo er sich befindet?
BHUTTO: Präsident Musharraf sagt, er befinde sich im schwer zu überwachenden Grenzgebiet zwischen Pakistan und Afghanistan. Die Experten gehen davon aus, dass er noch am Leben ist.
05. August 2007, CNN Interview:
BLITZER: Would it be OK for the U.S., if it had actionable intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden or Ayman al- Zawahiri in Pakistan, to go in and kill or capture him and violate, in effect, Pakistani sovereignty?
BHUTTO: I don't think it would be right to violate Pakistan's sovereignty by unauthorized military action. But I do believe that Pakistan and the United States and NATO and Afghanistan must work very closely together in restoring law and order to the tribal badlands in Pakistan, which are undermining Pakistan's standing in the international community, giving rise to a threat to Pakistan's internal well-being as well as aggravating our relations with nearby Afghanistan. We cannot tolerate people using our soil to mount attacks on NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan. (CNN Transkript)
09. August 2007, Finance Wire, NBC
CURRY: So if you return to power, how would you face down al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden?
BHUTTO: Bin laden has evaded capture because the pursuit has not been hard enough. We have to have pursuit of al Qaeda, tall pan, consistently and persistently and not only when there`s pressure on us.
19. September 2007, National Public Radio Interview
INSKEEP: Are you saying that whoever is hiding Osama bin Laden would cooperate with you to track him down?
Ms. BHUTTO: No, they would not cooperate with me. They would try to stop me. I think the people who are hiding Osama bin Laden are dead scared of democracy. They're frightened that now President Bush and the United States and the world community is calling for elections, they're doing that best to find some pretext by which they can get the elections postponed, because the people who are hiding Osama bin Laden know it would be very difficult for them to do that if democracy brings the Pakistan People's Party back to government under my leadership.
27. September 2007, CNN Interview
BLITZER: You’re a relatively young woman. How scared are you, though, because as you know, Osama bin Laden and other terrorists, they’ve attacked you in the past, and they clearly would like to go after you now.
BHUTTO: Yes, of course, they would like to go against me. There’s a lot of threats because under military dictatorship and an anarchy situation has developed which the terrorists and Osama have exploited. They don’t want democracy. They don’t want me back.
02. Oktober 2007, Associated Press (bzw REUTERS)
Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's former prime minister, said in an interview that she would cooperate with the American military in targeting Osama bin Laden.
Bhutto told BBC America, in an interview scheduled to air last night, that she would accept US assistance in the event they discovered the whereabouts of the Al Qaeda leader, but that she would prefer to have the Pakistani military execute the strike.
"If there is overwhelming evidence, I would hope that I would be able to take Osama bin Laden myself without depending on the Americans," Bhutto last week during the taping. "But if I couldn't do it, of course we are fighting this war together and would seek their cooperation in eliminating him."
03. November 2007, CNN Interview (ein Tag nach dem Frost-Interview!)
WHITFIELD: Do you think General Musharraf knows where Osama bin Laden is?
BHUTTO: I don't think General Musharraf personally knows where Osama bin Laden is, [...]
09. November 2007, Greta van Susteren Interview (FOX News)
VAN SUSTEREN: The two big issues Americans think of when they think of Pakistan, one is you have nuclear weapons and that’s always, you know, terrifying, you know when a country has unrest - you have nuclear weapons and the other is Osama bin Laden, we know - we suspect that he is hiding out in the northern part of Pakistan or that he is being hidden out there. Is Musharraf doing everything he can to protect your nuclear weapons? And number two, is he doing everything he can to help the United States in its war on terrorism?
BHUTTO: Well, I think Osama bin Laden must be rubbing his hands with glee as he looks at what’s happening in Pakistan and how there is civil unrest in the country, how large parts of the tribal areas have fallen under the sway of his supporters as have parts of the frontier province and now they are moving into yet another state known as the northern area. And what’s frightening, Greta, is that they seem to have tons of money and they’re hiring poverty stricken people from Pakistan and they’re hiring poverty stricken people from nearby Uzbekistan.
13. November 2007, National Public Radio Interview:
And I was just telling one of the policemen, I said 'should you be here after us? Shouldn’t you be looking for Osama bin Laden?'
Nach wem soll gesucht werden - nach einem Toten?
13. November 2007, BBC Radio 4
Well we've got about four thousand Policemen all around the house including in the neighbours, armoured personnel carriers and massive trucks filled with red sand, barbed wire, and I'm just wondering when we have this huge deployment where Police of this kind can't be used to hunt down Osama bin Laden.
Nach wem soll gesucht werden - nach einem Toten?
2. Bhutto erwähnt im Frost-Interview einige Namen im Zusammenhang mit der Frage nach den potentiellen Drahtziehern hinter dem Oktober-Anschlag (folgende Auszüge siehe Interview-Transkript):
04:08 Benazir Bhutto: Yes it is true that I wrote to General Musharraf. I recieved information from General Musharraf, that a friendly country had past on to them, the information that I could be attacked by a gang from the afghan warlord Baitullah Mesud or by Hamza ibn bin Ladin [the son of Osama Bin Ladin; Anm.: der Zusatz fehlt im Transkript, wurde jedoch von Bhutto gesagt], or by the pakistani Taliban in Islamabad or by a group in Karachi. So I sent back a letter saying: while these groups may be used, but more important is to go after the people who supported them, who organized them, who possibly are the financiers or the organizers of finance for those groups and I named three individuals, who I thougth with the symphatizers. [...]
00:05:33 David Frost: In terms of these three people you mentioned where they members of or asociated with the government.
00:05:42 Benazir Bhutto: Yes well, one of them is a very keyfigure in security, he is a former military officer, he is some one who has had dealings with Jaish-e-Mohammad one of the band groups of Maulana Masood Azhar, who was in an indian jail for decapitating three british tourists and three american tourists and he also had dealings with Omar Shiekh, who murdered Osama bin Laden. [Hervorhebungen von mir]
Sheikh Omar wurde im Februar 2002 festgenommen und von einem pakistanischen Gericht als Mörder des amerikanischen Journalisten Daniel Pearl verurteilt - nicht als Mörder von Bin Laden. (Quelle)
Sheikh Omar steht im Verdacht, kurz vor den Anschlägen 100.000 Dollar an Mohammed Atta überwiesen zu haben - im Auftrag des damaligen pakistanischen Geheimdienst-Chefs Ahmad Mahmoud
Die Verflechtungen des ISI mit den Taliban und al Kaida sind ein offenes Geheimnis.
Vor diesem Hintergrund klingt die Behauptung absurd, der islamistische Fanatiker Sheikh Omar hätte den allgegenwärtigen Mentor Bin Laden umgebracht.
Die naheliegende Erklärung für die ungewöhnlich wirkende Behauptung:
Bhutto nannte eine Minute zuvor zweimal den Namen Bin Laden und Sheikh Omar gilt als Vertrauter Bin Ladens. Bhutto hatte den Namen im Hinterkopf und versehentlich ausgesprochen - ein simpler Lapsus.
Eine vierminütige Video-Präsentation fasst die Argumentation nochmals im Kontext zusammen:
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