President linked Bhutto’s security to ‘her ties with him’
Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper – Pakistan/Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD: The US intelligence agencies taped assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s phone calls, prior to her arrival in Pakistan in October 2007, in a bid to “play under-the-table, cut-throat games more effectively”, a new book has revealed.
The Way of the World authored by a Pulitzer Prize winning US journalist Ron Suskind, is full of disclosures, with its fair portion about Musharraf-Benazir conversation including Musharraf’s quote “You should understand something, your security is based on the state of our relationship”, The News daily reported here yesterday.
Suskind writes that Bhutto’s case of returning to Pakistan was strongly backed by Condoleezza Rice-led State Department and equally opposed by Vice President Dick Cheney who considered Bhutto “complicated and unpredictable”.