Dick Cheney Had Benazir Bhutto Killed By A Special Hit Squad - Not!!!!!

or so claims The Nation.

NEW YORK (Online) - Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the orders of the special death squad formed by former US vice-president Dick Cheney, which had already killed the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafique Al Hariri and the army chief of that country.

The squad was headed by General Stanley McChrystal, the newly-appointed commander of US army in Afghanistan. It was disclosed by reputed US journalist Seymour Hersh while talking to an Arab TV in an interview.

Wow! There apparently is no limit to the evil that is Dick Cheney. Not only that but he apparently was assassinating Americans too in order to secure his base of power: I initially misread the following passage it was talking about foreign opponents and I thought it was talking about domestic opponents.

Hersh said former US vice-president Cheney was the chief of the Joint Special Operation Command and he clear the way for the US by exterminating opponents through the unit and the CIA. General Stanley was the in-charge of the unit.

and of course the Jews were deeply involved, I mean after all whats a conspiracy without a Jewish mastermind:

Seymour also said that Rafiq Al Hariri and the Lebanese army chief were murdered for not safeguarding the US interests and refusing US setting up military bases in Lebanon. Ariel Sharon, the then prime minister of Israel, was also a key man in the plot.

Or maybe, and I am just spitballing here, this is a giant crock of shit dreamed up by some anti-semitic Pakistani conspiracy theorist trying to smear America nad drum up support for the taliban / al-Qaeda. Just saying is all.

I am looking for a transcript of the Seymour Hersch interview where this was supposedly revealed.

The American Spectator has more as does Down With Tyranny. This has also been picked up by an Indian website. I have no way to gauge it's readership, but with our luck it is probably the most popular and trusted website in India.

I know the current administration is no fan of Dick Cheney but this has the potential to hurt American interests deeply. President Obama should have someone out there denying this immediately. Seymour Hersh has already done so in the Daily Times of Pakistan:

The award-winning journalist described as “complete madness” the reports that the squad headed by General Stanley McChrystal – the new commander of US army in Afghanistan – had also killed former Lebanese prime minister Rafique Al Hariri and a Lebanese army chief. “Vice president Cheney does not have a death squad. I have no idea who killed Mr Hariri or Mrs Bhutto,” Hersh said. “I have never said that I did have such information. I most certainly did not say anything remotely to that effect during an interview with an Arab media outlet.” He said Gen McChrystal had run a special forces unit that engaged in “high value target activity”, but “while I have been critical of some of that unit’s activities in the pages of the New Yorker and in interviews, I have never suggested that he was involved in political assassinations or death squads on behalf of Mr Cheney, as the published stories state.”

Update: This has hit DAWN which is a mainstream Pakistani newspaper now. The content is essentially the same as The Nation and Thaidian above but doesn't include the Hersch's denial. This has the potential to be big trouble.

BTW Kurulounge is the #1 Google search result for this. Woo Hoo!

Benazir Bhutto, Dick Cheney, Pakistan