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Hillary demands Bhutto probe
28/12/2007 22:09 - (SA)
Des Moines, Iowa - US Senator Hillary Clinton on Friday called for an independent, international probe into Benazir Bhutto's murder, saying Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's government had no credibility.
Clinton weighed in on the crisis which has ricocheted through the US presidential race just six days before the first party nominating contests, ahead of another day trudging through snowy Iowa in search of votes.
"I'm calling for a full, independent, international organisation," Clinton said in an interview with CNN.
"I think it's critically important that we get answers and really those are due first and foremost to the people of Pakistan," Clinton said.
The former first lady suggested the probe could be along the lines of the international investigation which followed the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005.
'Oppressed a free press'
"I don't think the Pakistani government at this time under President Musharraf has any credibility at all. They have disbanded an independent judiciary, they oppressed a free press."
Clinton's intervention was the latest sign that the ex-Pakistani premier's assassination could reshape the US presidential race at a critical time, bringing questions of leadership and national security into sharper focus.
She gave the interview from her hotel room in Des Moines, in a presidential-style setting with the backdrop of an American flag.
Other candidates have also used the crisis to bolster their own claims of leadership.
- AFP
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