'Osama's son allegedly killed Bhutto'
In a posthumous autobiography, former Pakistan Premier Benazir Bhutto has named the 16-year-old son of Osama Bin Laden as the leader of one of the four gangs of "designated assassins" who wanted to kill her in suicide attacks.
By Agencies |
LONDON: In a posthumous autobiography, former Pakistan Premier Benazir Bhutto has named the 16-year-old son of Osama Bin Laden as the leader of one of the four gangs of "designated assassins" who wanted to kill her in suicide attacks.
"I was told by both the Musharraf regime and a foreign Muslim government that four suicide bomber squads would attempt to kill me," she said in the autobiography, excerpts of which were carried by the 'The Sunday Times'.
These were "squads sent by the Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsuid; Hamza Bin Laden, a son of Osama Bin Laden; Red Mosque militants; and a Karachi-based militant group," she was quoted as saying.
Bhutto, who was killed on December 27 last year after addressing a rally in Rawalpindi, said President Pervez Musharraf's regime knew of the specific threats "against me, including the names and numbers of those who planned to kill me, and the names of others - including those in his own inner circle and in his party - whom we believed were conspiring.
"Despite our request, we received no reports on what actions were taken before my arrival (to Pakistan from self-imposed exile) as a follow-up to these warnings."
The naming of bin Laden's teenage son appears to bolster intelligence claims that Hamza is being groomed as a future leader of al-Qaeda.
"I was told by both the Musharraf regime and a foreign Muslim government that four suicide bomber squads would attempt to kill me," she said in the autobiography, excerpts of which were carried by the 'The Sunday Times'.
These were "squads sent by the Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsuid; Hamza Bin Laden, a son of Osama Bin Laden; Red Mosque militants; and a Karachi-based militant group," she was quoted as saying.
Bhutto, who was killed on December 27 last year after addressing a rally in Rawalpindi, said President Pervez Musharraf's regime knew of the specific threats "against me, including the names and numbers of those who planned to kill me, and the names of others - including those in his own inner circle and in his party - whom we believed were conspiring.
"Despite our request, we received no reports on what actions were taken before my arrival (to Pakistan from self-imposed exile) as a follow-up to these warnings."
The naming of bin Laden's teenage son appears to bolster intelligence claims that Hamza is being groomed as a future leader of al-Qaeda.
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