New York Post Articles

New York Post Article 1

Terror Group Killed Bhutto: CIA Chief January 18th, 2008

This is a very small article that states that the CIA blames Al Qaeda and allies for Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. This was discussed in a Washington Post interview with CIA director, Michael Hayden. Hayden said that Baitullah Mehsud, an ally with Al Qaeda is responsible. The Post described the killing as “part of an organized campaign” that has included suicide bombings and other attacks on Pakistani leaders. This was a new revelation in the case of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.

Questions

1. This article was very small, it is from the New York Post. This is a newspaper that is written for the common middle class, more conservative. The article didn’t provide a lot of detail. The vocabulary and language is not on a college level. This newspaper assumes that the middle class doesn’t consist of intellectuals.

2. The villain in this story is Baitullah Mehsud, because of new information the CIA believes that the assassins were under Mehsud’s direction.

3. There are no heroes in this article, but the CIA is working hard to create a safe democracy for the people of Pakistan.

4. This newspaper differs from the New York Times because of the language and vocabulary. The article doesn’t have any details. I feel that this newspaper isn’t written for intellectuals because it doesn’t provide any real content in the article. All of the articles written about Benazir Bhutto’s assassination in the New York Times provides so many details that its hard to summarize but the articles in the Post are like excerpts.

New York Post Article 2

Pakistan Poll: Blame Pervez January 14th, 2008

This article is states the link between the government agencies and government linked politicians involvement in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. There is said to be major corruption in the upcoming elections and President Musharraf is responsible. It also says that President Musharraf blames Islamic extremists.

Questions

1. This article is again very small, it doesn’t provide any details and it appears to be opinion based with no facts. This is a newspaper written for the middle class, so the audience is the average middle class.

2. The villain in this story appears to be President Musharraf because of his possible involvement in the assassination of Bhutto.

3. There are no heroes in this story because no facts are provided.

New York Post Article 3

Musharraf Blames Bhutto By: Bill Sanderson 1/6/08

This article states that President Musharraf blamed Benazir Bhutto for her own assassination in a TV news interview. She died Dec. 27, in a terrorist suicide attack. “For standing up outside her the car, I think it was she to blame alone. Nobody else. Resopnsibility is hers,” Musharraf said this in an interview that is going to air on 60 minutes. President Musharraf says that she was well aware that she was a target and she was given all the security she needed. Bhutto’s widowed husband, Asif Ali Zardari, accused members of Pakistans ruling regime for his wife’s killing. He insisted on a UN investigation stating that “ an investigation conducted by the government of Pakistan will have no credibility”.

Question

1. The audience seems to be middle class. The vocabulary in this article isn’t articulate and sophisticated as those in the New York Times.

2. The villain in this story is President Musharraf, because he blamed Bhutto for her own assassination, it was a very malicious thing to do publicly.

3. There are no heroes in this story, the UN will be investigating the assassination further.

New York Post Article 4

Bhutto Slay Bust

By Bill Sanderson 1/20/08

This article reveals that there is a teenage boy, Aitezaz Shah only 15, under arrest in Pakistan admitting that he was one of five suicide bombers assigned by Al Qaeda and Taliban operatives to carry out the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Shah's "handler" Sher Zaman was also arrested.

Shah told police that he had two accomplices named Akram and Bilal. They were assigned to target Bhutto first and if they failed him and his acomplice were to make sure the job was done. Bilal succeeded, shooting Bhutto then detonating a massive suicide bomb strapped to his body. The blast killed 20 people and wounded hundreds.

The death of Bhutto caused poltical chaos, forced a delay in elections and triggered riots that killed 40. C.I.A director, Michael Hayden agrees with President Pervez Musharraf's government that the Bhutto plot was lead by Baitullah Mehsud, a man in his 30's linked to Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Questions

1. The audience is people who are interested in the assassination case of Benazir Bhutto. This article provided much more detail than the previous articles from the Post.

2. The villain in this story is Baitullah Mehsud, he is the mastermind behind the asassination plot of Benazir Bhutto. The CIA and the UN investigation also came to this conclusion.

3. The heroes in this story is the C.I.A, UN and the counterterrorism officials who have been working hard to solve this case.