U.N. Avoids Placing Blame In Suicide Attack

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UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council yesterday labeled the assassination of a former Pakistani prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, a “terrorist suicide attack” and condemned it “in the strongest terms,” but diplomats were very careful not to pin the attack to a perpetrator.

Diplomats who rushed in from a week-long year-end vacation declined to address on the record the many speculations and theories about the assassination and its possible perpetrators. While most diplomats theorized that it must have been the work of Al Qaeda, others said elements within Pakistan’s intelligence services, military, or even the government, may have had an interest in the chaos that ensued.

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