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One must suppose that the assassination of the former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on December 27 to the John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963 would be inevitable, especially after Pakistan's Interior Ministry announced on December 29 that Bhutto was not killed by gunfire or shrapnel (the first two official Interior Ministry announcements), but by the incidental possible fracturing of her skull on the edge of the sunroof of her vehicle or the handle of that sunroof. This announcement contradicts two earlier reports, one being that of the doctor that treated her in Rawalpindi (the site of the assassination) that stated that Bhutto had died of gunshot wounds. His report attested to a fatal gunshot wound that exited Bhutto's neck. A later report would assert that shrapnel from the detonation of the bomb the assassin detonated shortly after firing shots at the former prime minister.

How is this like the assassination of John F. Kennedy? One would wonder, but there are a few parallels already, so it is not too dreadful a leap for the willing to begin espousing all sorts of links to conspiracies in the days, months, and years ahead. The subject has been broached on several news shows already, so...

The Bhutto assassination is now mired in competing theories of how Benazir Bhutto was actually killed or how she actually died (the argument can be made that, regardless of the method in which she died, she was killed by the circumstances surrounding that method). Much like the JFK assassination over four decades ago, a media frenzy, competing and contradictory statements of witnesses and government officials, and video footage of the last moments of Bhutto's life leave the subject open for continued and emotional debate. The more obvious parallels that will be drawn are the similarities in that both were shot while in their vehicles waving to onlookers and that both died from a bullet wound to the neck (according to one report, of course).

The point can be made that many in Pakistan do not believe the government's findings credible and leans towards the promotion of cover-up and questionable investigative methods charges, much the same as the Warren Commission's report on the JFK assassination was received. The fact remains that the doctors at Rawalpindi, the first to see and treat Bhutto after she suffered her wound(s), announced that the former prime minister had died of a gunshot wound to the neck. That the government, two days later, are presenting a plausible

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