The “take-him-out” notion was reported by Wayne Madsen. It comes from a speech made at the National Press Club in Washington by Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas) who said Pakistan’s Prime Minister Musharraf could be "one bullet away from not being in power,” given present tensions.

McCaul didn’t suggest whose bullet that would be. Perhaps he was relying on the power of suggestion to inspire some group. In fact, could the reason for that threat be that Musharraf was not willing to side with the US in an attack on Iran?

Yet long before Musharraf, Pakistan established a nuclear program in 1972 while Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was minister for Fuel, Power and Natural Resources. He went on to become president and prime minister. After the loss of East Pakistan in a 1971 war with India, Bhutto initiated the nuclear program, bringing in physicists and engineers at Multan in January 1972. In 1974, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan was brought in and significantly advanced this program. Khan was a German-trained metallurgist with knowledge of gas centrifuge technology acquired at URENCO enrichment plant in the Netherlands.

SoureceWatch reports that, "Dr Khan played the key role in developing Pakistan's nuclear military capability, which culminated in successful tests in May 1998. Coming shortly after similar tests by India, Dr Khan's work helped seal Pakistan's place as the world's seventh nuclear power and sparked national jubilation as “The Father of Pakistan’s Bomb.” In March 2001, he was promoted to the inner circle of the country's military leadership as special science and technology adviser to President Pervez Musharraf. He was sacked by Musharraf from that position unceremoniously in January 2004 during an investigation. Revelations that he had passed on nuclear secrets to other countries, including Iran, China and Libya, shocked and traumatized Pakistan (BBC, February 20, 2004).”

Additional political chaos has been fueled in Pakistan by the reappearance of Bhutto descendent, ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, fresh from the US and her recent interview at the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) with its President Richard Haass. She was preaching there for true democracy to be restored. If you smell Bilderberger, it’s because the CFR and TC (Trilateral Commission) are power-wielding arms of the Bilderberger Group.

To his credit, Musharraf’s constitutional amendment to ban PM’s from serving more than two terms may have inspired Bhutto to put Musharraf on her hit list. Or was she playing holier than thou after being run out of Pakistan after her two terms. Bhutto ran one of the most corrupt regimes in that country’s history. And that’s saying a lot. Now, we have a few players working on that bullet and/or a few more reasons.

In fact, from wordpress.com’s article Benazir Bhutto, The Corruption Diva, we get a whole other look at Ms. Bhutto. Their writers report “Arthur Herman, a U.S. historian, in a controversial letter published in The Wall Street Journal on 14 June 2007 . . . describe her as ‘One of the most incompetent leaders in the history of South Asia,” and asserted that she and other elites in Pakistan hate Musharraf because he is a muhajir, the son of one of millions of Indian Muslims who fled to Pakistan during partition in 1947. Herman had claimed, “Although it was muhajirs who agitated for the creation of Pakistan in the first place, many native Pakistanis view them with contempt and treat them as third-class citizens.”

Wikipedia also tells us about Bhutto’s Corruption: “The French, Polish, Spanish and Swiss governments have provided documentary evidence to the Pakistan government of alleged corruption by Bhutto and her husband. Bhutto and her husband faced a number of legal proceedings, including a charge of laundering money through Swiss banks. Her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, spent eight years in prison on similar corruption charges. Zardari, released from jail in 2004, has suggested that his time in prison involved torture; human rights groups have supported his claim that his rights were violated.”

 “A 1998 report indicates that Pakistani investigators have documents that uncover a network of bank accounts, all linked to the family’s lawyer in Switzerland, with Asif Zardari as the principal shareholder. According to the article, documents released by the French authorities indicated that Zardari offered exclusive rights to Dassault, a French aircraft manufacturer, to replace the force’s fighter jets in exchange for a 5 percent commission to be paid to a Swiss corporation controlled by Zardari . . . The paper also said that Zardari’s parents, who had modest assets at the time of Bhutto’s marriage, now own a 355-acre estate south of London. The estate has been auctioned through a court order.”

Of course, Bhutto claims the charges against hubby and her are purely political. “Most of the documents are fabricated . . . and the stories that have been spun around them are absolutely wrong,” she says. Yet a still more detailed article in the International New York Times, by John F. Burns on 1/9/98 tells us Bhutto Clan Leaves Trail of Corruption in Pakistan.

Now you may ask, if Bhutto is such a bust why has the US been trying to broker a deal between her and the military dictator Musharraf. Well, once more we put all our money and arms on a somewhat iffy, nuclear-armed Musharraf in return for his partnership in the fabled “War On Terror.” Yet the Taliban and “Al Qaeda,” not to mention bin Laden, seem to roam his borders relatively freely while Musharraf has spent most of our loot on internal corruption and preparing for wars with India, making him not too popular in the region. McCaul’s comment now takes on a whole new reality, and with a variety of shooters. And here is still another adversary.

Bhutto linked to Mark Penn, Hillary’s chief strategist and polster

One Kos blogger notes Bhutto’s record and the connection to Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist and pollster. Penn, who unfortunately has connections to union busting and Blackwater, more importantly has a hand in Pakistani elections on behalf of the corrupt Bhutto.

Pervez Musharraf, as we know has imposed martial law in Pakistan, easing it somewhat as John Negroponte approaches to mediate the situation. The stakes are high and cooperation is desired for the sake of the whole world. Therefore, it is mind-boggling that Mark Penn's lobbying and polling firms are taking big monthly checks from Benazir Bhutto, number one rival of Musharraf. The story begins like this in Politco . . .

 “The Pakistani government deployed a team of lobbyists to Capitol Hill on Monday to contain the fallout from the destabilizing actions by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, as congressional Democrats and the Bush administration sought a review of the country’s foreign aid.

 “The focus is on the Hill right now,” said Mark Tavlarides, a former national security aide in the Clinton administration whose firm, Van Scoyoc Associates, is paid $55,000 a month from the Musharraf government -- a significant boost from the $40,000 the firm earned before July.

 “In the wake of Musharraf’s moves over the weekend to scuttle the constitution and, effectively, declare martial law to hold onto power, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and top congressional Democrats promised to review the $845 million in foreign aid the administration has requested for Pakistan next year.

 “Meanwhile, the Pakistani opposition party, led by Bhutto, has retained public relations giant Burson-Marsteller and its affiliates, the lobbying firm BKSH & Associates, and the polling firm Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates. The firm declined comment on its activities, for which it is charging an initial $75,000, to be followed with monthly payments of $28,500.

 “The contract filed with the Justice Department does, however, give some insight into what all of the money buys. Among the promised services: surveys of ‘100 American political, journalistic, and business elites in Washington, D.C., and New York’; an ‘internal brainstorming session’; and setting up meetings for Bhutto in Washington ‘with an eye towards convincing U.S. officials that Prime Minister Bhutto is still relevant to further the democratic process in Pakistan.’” This may explain the CFR meeting as well. But . . .

 “Let us be clear what is going on here. The chief strategist for Hillary Clinton is also involved with efforts by a foreign political party to gain influence in Washington D.C. And, not just any political party or figure. Benazir Bhutto is notoriously corrupt.”

So, this is how the PMs, presidents, et al, are made, in the spin-rooms of the elite. And perhaps with the help of a bullet or two or three or four or more. I smell Bilderberger again.

The same old same old

Perhaps a reader from Wayne Madsen’s post-article blog summed it up best. “Isn't this the pattern of the NWO [New World Order],” she asked. Then she went to say: “They set up Hitler, then they made him out to be the enemy. [See Conjuring Hitler: How Britain And America Made the Third Reich]

The blogger continues . . ."They had dealings with Noriega, then they made him out to be the enemy. They set up Hussein, then they made him out to be the enemy. They set up Osama Bin Laden, then they made him out to be the enemy. Musharav [sic] probably is well aware of the one bullet theory and that may have provoked him to create the police state, like Castro before him. Jack Abramoff was the lobbiest [sic] for Pakistan.” She then offers this quote from Michael Rupert’s “Oh Lucy! You Gotta Lotta ‘Splainin To Do" . . .

”18 May 2001 - Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a career covert operative and former Navy Seal, travels to India on a publicized tour, while CIA Director George Tenet makes a quiet visit to Pakistan to meet with Pakistani leader Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Armitage has long and deep Pakistani intelligence connections. It would be reasonable to assume that while in Islamabad, Tenet, in what was described as "an unusually long meeting," also met with his Pakistani counterpart, Lt. Gen. Mahmud Ahmad, head of the ISI. [Source: The Indian SAPRA news agency, May 22, 2001]

”24. summer 2001 (est.) - Pakistani ISI Chief Gen. Ahmad (see above) orders an aide to wire transfer $100,000 to Mohammed Atta who was, according to the FBI, the lead terrorist in the suicide hijackings. Ahmad recently resigned after the transfer was disclosed in India and confirmed by the FBI. The individual who makes the wire transfer at Ahmad's direction is Ahmad Umar Sheik, the lead suspect in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. [Source: The Times of India, Oct.11, 2001.]”

And now it’s perfectly clear just how valuable Pervez Musharraf could be, but remain if necessary a bullet away from not being in power. And, envisioning regaining power, it is no wonder that Bhutto rages so in the Nov 7, New York Times editorial, Musharraf’s Martial Plan: “NOV. 3, 2007, will be remembered as the blackest day in the history of Pakistan. Let us be perfectly clear: Pakistan is a military dictatorship. Last Saturday, Gen. Pervez Musharraf removed all pretense of a transition to democracy by conducting what was in effect yet another extraconstitutional coup.

 “In doing so he endangered the viability of Pakistan as an independent state. He presented the country’s democratic forces with a tough decision -- acquiesce to the brutality of the dictatorship or take over the streets and show the world where the people of Pakistan really stand.”

And so goes the spin.