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NAME: PAK WRAP 20071019I TAPE: EF07/1257 IN_TIME: 11:19:53:12 DURATION: 00:04:00:09 SOURCES: AP/VARIOUS DATELINE: Various - 19 Oct 2007 RESTRICTIONS: Part No Pakistan SHOTLIST AP Television Karachi - 19 October 2007 1 Banners in support of Bhutto at news conference 2 Bhutto at news conference 3 Cutaway of Pakistan People's Party vice-chairman Amin Faheem 4 SOUNDBITE (English) Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan Before I came to Pakistan, it was conveyed to me that several suicide squads had been sent against me It was conveyed to me that on information received from a brotherly country there was one suicide squad from the Taliban elements, one suicide squad from al-Qaida, one suicide squad from Pakistani Taliban and a fourth group I believe from Karachi 5 Cutaway wide of Bhutto 6 SOUNDBITE (English) Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan I appeal to my brothers and sisters in the government to continue giving me information, because I have heard the next attack is going to be by placing certain people in the police department near my house in Clifton, and near my house in Larkana, so that there can be an attack on my house and an attack on me And that commandos will be sent in the garb of a rival political party or faction and that rival political party or faction will be blamed 7 Cutaway journalists 8 SOUNDBITE (English) Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan To save Pakistan, and to save democracy, because we believe democracy alone can save Pakistan from disintegration and a militant take-over, then we are prepared to risk our lives and we are prepared to risk our liberty But we are not prepared to surrender our great nation to the militants 9 Cutaway cameraman 10 Cutaway Bhutto and officials AAJ TV - No Access Pakistan 18 October 2007 ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 11 Wide of crowd, moment of second blast SKY - No Access UK/RTE/CNNi 19 October 2007 12 SOUNDBITE (English) Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan Then about 30 seconds or 60 seconds later, there was a much louder noise and the whole truck rocked and a huge light went up and there was more splintering of glass and shrapnel and all sorts of gore and it was dark and yet light because of the light of the bomb and then when we looked over, we just sort of peeked over and it was just dead bodies AP Television ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 18 October 2007 13 Various of injured at scene SKY - No Access UK/RTE/CNNi Karachi - 19 October 2007 14 SOUNDBITE: (English) Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan Well of course campaigning now is so difficult I don't think so much of myself but I think of the people who lost their lives I just got the figures (Q: So you can't do it?) No, I have to (Q: But how can you go out in public now?) I have to find a way to go out to the public and I have been talking to the party people and most of them feel that we can't stop going out to the people Democracy is about going to the public (Q: You as well?) Me as well AP Television Karachi - 19 October 2007 15 Wide of political analyst Zahid Hussain working 16 SOUNDBITE (English) Zahid Hussain, political analyst: This family actually is full of tragedy Her father was executed by a military dictator, her two brothers were killed - one of them actually, the eldest brother was killed in a police encounter in Karachi So basically, it is one of those families where there are so many tragic deaths and obviously that has cast a huge shadow over Benazir herself PTV - No Access Pakistan Islamabad 17 Wide of President General Pervez Musharraf meeting officials from Pakistan Ministry of Education 18 Mid of Musharraf 19 Various of officials 20 Mid of Musharraf STORYLINE: Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said on Friday she would not give in to the militants whom she blamed for an assassination attempt against her - a suicide attack that killed up to 136 people and dampened her long-awaited return to Pakistan Bhutto said that ahead of her arrival in Karachi on Thursday, she had been warned suicide squads had been dispatched to kill her She said telephone numbers of suicide squads had been given to her by a brotherly country and she alerted President General Pervez Musharraf in a letter dated October 16 There was one suicide squad from the Taliban elements, one suicide squad from al-Qaida, one suicide squad from Pakistani Taliban and a fourth group I believe from Karachi, she said Bhutto claimed the next attack against her would target her homes in Karachi and her hometown of Larkana, using attackers posing as supporters of a rival political faction She said she was confident the government would take measures to prevent it Baitullah Mehsud, a top militant leader on the unstable Afghan border, threatened this month to meet Bhutto's return to Pakistan with suicide attacks, according to local media reports An associate of Mehsud, however, denied Taliban involvement Bhutto also defended her decision to negotiate with Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup, saying it was aimed at a transition to democracy To save Pakistan, and to save democracy, because we believe democracy alone can save Pakistan from disintegration and a militant take-over, then we are prepared to risk our lives and we are prepared to risk our liberty But we are not prepared to surrender our great nation to the militants Thursday's attack was one of the deadliest in Pakistan's history The back-to-back explosions went off near a bulletproof truck that was carrying Bhutto and top party officials through the streets of Karachi Just 10 hours after landing in Pakistan, her jubilant homecoming parade turned into a scene of blood and carnage, ripping victims apart and hurling a fireball into the sky Bhutto narrowly escaped the attack, which shattered the windows of her truck In an interview with British broadcaster Sky News on Friday, she described the moments after the second blast The whole truck rocked and a huge light went up and there was more splintering of glass and shrapnel and all sorts of gore and it was dark and yet light because of the light of the bomb and then when we looked over, we just sort of peeked over and it was just dead bodies, Bhutto said Zahid Hussain, a political analyst, told AP Television he believed the attack would cast a huge shadow over Bhutto because her father and two brothers had been killed as well Bhutto picked up the heavy political legacy of her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto During his time as Pakistan's leader, Bhutto introduced parliamentary democracy and pushed what could be described as Islamic socialist policies He won a landslide election in 1977, but allegations of vote-rigging and corruption hounded him Civil unrest broke out In July 1977, General Zia-ul Haq staged a military coup and had Bhutto arrested and executed two years later Her estranged brother Murtaza died in a gunbattle with police in Karachi in 1996 Bhutto's youngest brother, Shahnawaz, died under mysterious circumstances in France a decade earlier, in 1986 President General Pervez Musharraf phoned Bhutto on Friday to express his profound grief over Thursday's suicide attack that left up to 136 people dead, officials said Musharraf told the former premier that he was shocked by the attack and that he prayed for her safety and security, his spokesman said Musharraf and Bhutto both expressed their unflinching resolve to fight extremism, added the president's spokesman