United States is backing Ms.Bhutto the face of corruption .What is wrong with state dept.????

Question

She and her Husband were behind the killing of her own real Brother .Do you think she can deliver any thing to United States????????????

Answer 1

I don't think we've officially "backed" her as of yet but Musharraf's recent actions have us seriously debating which would be lesser of the two evils. I agree with you totally though. Most of the media has been treating her like the poor damsel in distress also without really reminding the public of the facts and actions which led to her exile, she was as corrupt as they come as a leader, it's just a bad situation all around. I think the US just needs to focus on securing the Pakistani nukes, by any means necessary, and just stay out of the Democratic process. But if this state of emergency continues, or we start receiving fire from their boarders, we may have to intervene, preferably if asked, to help deter insurgent / Taliban rule.

Answer 2

Like they have a great set of choices. Musharaff is a military dictator, Bhutto is a corrupt politico, and the only other power base in Pakistan is freak'n Al Qaeda.


alakazar: Pakistan is in West Asia, not the middle east. Iran and Israel (ironically enough) are in the middle east, and are both democracies. Pakistan is not the 'only democracy in the middle east.'

Answer 3

Hmmm well since she didn't declare a state of emergency and turn the only democratic nation in the middle east into a dictatorship and beat the hell out of her own citizens as well as arresting and detaining them for protesting... I've got to say that your argument pretty much has no back bone.

Answer 4

The state dept is treading dangerous waters, but they are not backing her.

Answer 5

You should check your facts before repeating smear propaganda. Bhutto has never been convicted of anything. The "allegations" against her come from the same people who support the dictator, musharaf, who is attempting to crush the desire of the Pakistani for freedom and democraacy. The Bush administration is doing the right thing in supporting her for a change.

Bhutto may not be perfect--but she is risking her life to try to restrore freedom to Pakistan.

So--before you repeat any more smears or unproven accusations, think about this: what kind of immoral scum would try to smear a person who is putting her life on the line for liberty? What kind of unAmerican trash would NOT support her?

Answer 6

How did you come to the conclusion that she is being backed by the US.
Bush didn't say that an neither did Negroponte.
So, why do you?

Answer 7

On what do you conclude that US is backing her? I've seen nothing to that effect.

Answer 8

She is totally backed by Bush. Jim sock are u sleeping. Before she went to Pakistan she went to meet with Rice and Bush. Infact the State Department pressured Musharraf to take her as his partner. This is the news about her meeting Bush
http://www.pakistantimes.net/2007/01/25/top4.htm

Here is some info from wikipedia
On 23 July 1998, the Swiss Government handed over documents to the government of Pakistan which relate to corruption allegations against Benazir Bhutto and her husband.[18] The documents included a formal charge of money laundering by Swiss authorities against Zardari. The Pakistani government had been conducting a wide-ranging inquiry to account for more than $13.7 million frozen by Swiss authorities in 1997 that was allegedly stashed in banks by Bhutto and her husband. The Pakistani government recently filed criminal charges against Bhutto in an effort to track down an estimated $1.5 billion she and her husband are alleged to have received in a variety of criminal enterprises.[19] The documents suggest that the money Zardari is alleged to have laundered was accessible to Benazir Bhutto and had been used to buy a diamond necklace for over $175,000.[20]

The PPP has responded by flatly denying the charges, suggesting that Swiss authorities have been misled by false evidence provided by Islamabad.

On 6 August 2003, Swiss magistrates found Benazir and her husband guilty of money laundering.[21] They were given six-month suspended jail terms, fined $50,000 each and were ordered to pay $11 million to the Pakistani government. The six-year trial alleged that Benazir and Zardari deposited in Swiss accounts $10 million given to them by a Swiss company in exchange for a contract in Pakistan. The couple said they would appeal. The Pakistani investigators say Zardari opened a Citbank account in Geneva in 1995 through which they say he passed some $40 million of the $100 million he received in payoffs from foreign companies doing business in Pakistan.[22]

In October 2007, Daniel Zappelli, chief prosecutor of the canton (state) of Geneva, said he received the conclusions of a money laundering investigation against former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Monday, but it was unclear whether there would be any further legal action against her in Switzerland. [23]


Poland
The Polish Government has given Pakistan 500 pages of documentation relating to corruption allegations against Benazir Bhutto and her husband. These charges are in regard to the purchase of 8,000 tractors in a 1997 deal.[24][25] According to Pakistani officials, the Polish papers contain details of illegal commissions paid by the tractor company in return for agreeing to their contract.[26] It is alleged that the arrangement "skimmed" Rs 103 mn rupees ($2 million) in kickbacks.[27] "The documentary evidence received from Poland confirms the scheme of kickbacks laid out by Asif Zardari and Benazir Bhutto in the name of (the) launching of Awami tractor scheme," APP said. Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari allegedly received a 7.15 percent commission on the purchase through their front men, Jens Schlegelmilch and Didier Plantin of Dargal S.A., who received about $1.969 million for supplying 5,900 Ursus Tractors.[28]


France
Potentially the most lucrative deal alleged in the documents involved the effort by Dassault Aviation, a French military contractor. French authorities indicated in 1998 that Bhutto's husband, Zardari, offered exclusive rights to Dassault to replace the air force’s fighter jets in exchange for a five percent commission to be paid to a corporation in Switzerland controlled by Zardari.[29]

At the time, French corruption laws forbade bribery of French officials but permitted payoffs to foreign officials, and even made the payoffs tax-deductible in France. However, France changed this law in 2000. [30]


Middle East
In the largest single payment investigators have discovered, a gold bullion dealer in the Middle East is alleged to have deposited at least $10 million into one of Zardari's accounts after the Bhutto government gave him a monopoly on gold imports that sustained Pakistan's jewellery industry. The money was allegedly deposited into Zardari's Citibank account in Dubai.

Pakistan's Arabian Sea coast, stretching from Karachi to the border with Iran, has long been a gold smugglers' haven. Until the beginning of Bhutto's second term, the trade, running into hundreds of millions of dollars a year, was unregulated, with slivers of gold called biscuits, and larger weights in bullion, carried on planes and boats that travel between the Persian Gulf and the largely unguarded Pakistani coast.

Shortly after Bhutto returned as prime minister in 1993, a Pakistani bullion trader in Dubai, Abdul Razzak Yaqub, proposed a deal: in return for the exclusive right to import gold, Razzak would help the government regularize the trade. In November 1994, Pakistan's Commerce Ministry wrote to Razzak informing him that he had been granted a license that made him, for at least the next two years, Pakistan's sole authorized gold importer. In an interview in his office in Dubai, Razzak acknowledged that he had used the license to import more than $500 million in gold into Pakistan, and that he had travelled to Islamabad several times to meet with Bhutto and Zardari. But he denied that there had been any corruption or secret deals. "I have not paid a single cent to Zardari," he said.

Razzak claims that someone in Pakistan who wished to destroy his reputation had contrived to have his company wrongly identified as the depositor. "Somebody in the bank has cooperated with my enemies to make false documents," he said.