BHUTTO: Cartoon by Michael Ramirez

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Today's editorial cartoon by Michael Ramirez is a play on both the Bhutto assassination and the San Francisco Zoo tiger attack that killed one man and put two brothers in the hospital.

When I first saw this in print this morning in the New York Post, it was in black-n-white and I missed the lettering in the tiger's stripes. Meanwhile, I am sure that Ramirez hadn't noted the South Asian connection to the tiger story. It isn't a Bengal tiger, but those brothers, it turns out, are desi.

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Comments

[Imran]

I might have read a lot of suspense novels during my childhood days, which make my wild thoughts link Benazir's tragic death with more evident reasons than extremism & Islam. The hidden “Will of Succession" (not available to media), written just two days before Benazir's arrival in Pakistan and subsequent chain of events, points out an obvious yet cloaked benefactor in this Game of Power - Asif Ali Zardari. Have we forgotten the murder of Murtaza Bhutto, in Karachi (Pakistan), during the tenure of his Prime Minister Sister (Benazir), which had been openly alleged at Mr. Zardari. The ‘Wadera’ husband had also been rumored to slap his wife on several occasions. As divorce would have meant a political death the couple had decided to live separately.
I wonder, what would Sherlock Holmes had said to Dr. Watson, if he was to investigate this case.

[sherlock holmes]

elementary, my dear imran:

those who live by the sword die by the sword.

QED