Bhutto sent Blitzer security e-mail

On October 26, 2007, Wolf Blitzer received an email from Benazir Bhutto, stating her insecurity by Musharraf’s ‘minions’ and that she would ‘hold (Pakistani President Pervez) Musharraf responsible’ if anything happened to her. The conditions that her email be brought to the public: only if she were killed.

It was a story CNN’s Wolf Blitzer hoped he’d never have to report — an e-mail sent to him through an intermediary by Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto complaining about her security. Conditions of use: only if she were killed.

Bhutto, who was assassinated on Thursday, wrote to Blitzer that if anything happened to her, “I would hold (Pakistani President Pervez) Musharraf responsible.”

Blitzer received the e-mail on Oct. 26 from Mark Siegel, a friend and longtime Washington spokesman for Bhutto. That was eight days after she narrowly escaped another attempt at her life.

Bhutto wrote to Blitzer that “I have been made to feel insecure by his (Musharraf’s) minions,” that specific improvements had not been made to her security arrangements, and that the Pakistani leader was responsible.

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