Pakistan's Bombers

A suicide bomber in Pakistan has just assassinated Pakistani leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Killing her and blowing himself and everyone else around him to pieces.

The story is here.

So my question is this. If they thought that by blowing up Pakistan with nukes they could rain fallout and destruction on the rest of the world ...would they do it?

So what do you think?

And what's your prediction for planet Earth on the eve of 2008?

Nu?

Terror in Pakistan

As of the time of this writing, the terrorist attack in Pakistan has claimed hundreds of victims. Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani opposition leader, had returned from exile yesterday. Hundreds of thousands of supporters had lined the streets of Karachi, surging forward for a glimpse of their leader as she inched her way through the city atop a bullet-proof truck... and then...

For a slide show of news photos from the NYTimes, just click on the photograph below