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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, aides said.
"The surgeons confirmed that she has been martyred," Bhutto's lawyer Babar Awan said.
A party security adviser said Bhutto was shot in neck and chest as she got into her vehicle to leave the rally in Rawalpindi near the capital Islamabad. A gunman then blew himself up.
-- SADAQAT JAN and ZARAR KHAN for the Associated Press
This is hard news to come to in the morning. I thought she was one of the real shining lights in that region of the world. I know there were corruption charges, but for that region, that still leaves her in the running to be the George Washington and Abraham Lincoln of the hemisphere. News like this confirms that there is no hope for that wasteland.
