Robert Fisk had an article in yesterday's Independent.

Weird, isn't it, how swiftly the narrative is laid down for us. Benazir Bhutto, the courageous leader of the Pakistan People's Party, is assassinated in Rawalpindi -- attached to the very capital of Islamabad wherein ex-General Pervez Musharraf lives -- and we are told by George Bush that her murderers were "extremists" and "terrorists". Well, you can't dispute that.

But the implication of the Bush comment was that Islamists were behind the assassination. It was the Taliban madmen again, the al-Qa'ida spider who struck at this lone and brave woman who had dared to call for democracy in her country.

Of course, given the childish coverage of this appalling tragedy -- and however corrupt Ms Bhutto may have been, let us be under no illusions that this brave lady is indeed a true martyr -- it's not surprising that the "good-versus-evil" donkey can be trotted out to explain the carnage in Rawalpindi.

Who would have imagined, watching the BBC or CNN on Thursday, that her two brothers, Murtaza and Shahnawaz, hijacked a Pakistani airliner in 1981 and flew it to Kabul where Murtaza demanded the release of political prisoners in Pakistan. Here, a military officer on the plane was murdered. There were Americans aboard the flight -- which is probably why the prisoners were indeed released.

The entire article:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article3291600.ece.

The Tariq Ali article that he refers to in the London Review of Books is here:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n24/ali_01_.html.

Tariq Ali also wrote in Friday's Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2232700,00.html.

Larisa Alexandrovna continues to comment:
http://www.atlargely.com/2007/12/the-lone-gunmen.html
http://www.atlargely.com/2007/12/video-shows-cle.html.