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Transcript: Rice Remarks En Route to Belgium

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice offered remarks about the ongoing conflict between Russia and Georgia and other matters while aboard an aircraft en route to Brussels, Belgium today.  Below is a transcript of both her comments and the question-and-answer session with reporters that followed:
SECRETARY RICE: Hello. Good morning, everyone. All right, well, welcome aboard. Can [...]

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It Doesn’t Pay to Be ‘First’ in Pakistan

December 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Today’s assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto marks the second time in 56 years that a “first” prime minister of Pakistan has been assassinated. While Bhutto the first female prime minister of Pakistan, the Southwest Asian nation’s first prime minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, was assassinated in October 1951, barely four years after [...]

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Bhutto Killed One Day After Her Party Goes Online

December 27th, 2007 · 6 Comments

The Pakistan People’s Party, under the leadership of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, used a news release yesterday to announce it had turned to the Internet to raise funds for the party’s efforts to win parliamentary elections in January 2008. The PPP web site , designed and supported by Washington, D.C.-based [...]

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Benazir Bhutto Assassinated!

December 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Under the headline, Pakistan’s Bhutto killed in attack, Pakistani blogger Arshad Jamal reported a short time ago on the assassination death of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Click here to read his account of events thusfar.
 
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For other Bob McCarty Writes posts on Bhutto’s assassination, click on one of the links below:
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