LaRouche: ¡Musharraf debe recibir apoyo absoluto para investigar el asesinato de Bhutto!

January 1, 2008 (LPAC)--Long-time New York Times columnist Bob Herbert is one of many who have just now woken up to the reality of what Lyndon LaRouche has identified as the new chaos scenario out of London. In a gripping New Years Day column, "Still Reeling After All These Years," Herbert makes the equation of the year-end 2007-2008 to another brand new year just forty years earlier. "It promised to be a very good year," he begins. But then, suddenly, the hopes embodied in the Gene McCarthy, and then the Robert Kennedy Presidential candidacies, gave way in a mere few days to the nightmare of violence spawned with the Martin Luther King and then the Kennedy assassinations.

When Bobby Kennedy was told that King had died, he is said to have put his hands to his face and murmured, "Oh, God. When is this violence going to stop?"

LaRouche noted that we were right in the center of that at the time. That when Bobby Kennedy was killed, Mark Rudd wanted to use the occasion to stage a riot. Rudd was merely a tool of certain people who were orchestrating the process. We did manage to sabotage what Rudd was going to do, for which we have never been forgiven.

"The nation has never really recovered from the bullet that killed R.F.K.," as Herbert summarizes it.

That is perceptive, said LaRouche. Now, that may indicate something, because, if you go back in our personal history, to our experience, with Mark Rudd and so forth at that point, he seems to be saying the same thing.

Herbert closes by quoting Richard Harwood of the Washington Post. "We discovered in 1968 this deep, almost mystical bond that existed between Robert Kennedy and the Other America. It was a disquieting experience for reporters.... We were forced to recognize in Watts and Gary and Chimney Rock, that the real stake in the American political process involves not the fate of speechwriters and fund-raisers, but the lives of millions of people seeking hope out of despair."

"This is key," said LaRouche. The guy is reflecting that; he's reflecting this turn on the Bobby Kennedy killing, which, in our experience, goes also with the second sit-in at Columbia, "Hamilton II," which was the madness. And this madness carried on from that point on; it was all orchestrated by Kenneth Clarke and company up there, with that crowd, and also, a famous fascist CIA element, whom we tried to throw off Columbia campus.

In his way, Herbert is saying the same thing that LaRouche has just said. In his own way, he reflects it. He obviously reflects that experience, and he's now getting a smell of a similar thing going on now, year-end 2007-2008.

In Pakistan, meanwhile, President Musharraf is to address the nation at 8:00pm Wednesday evening. But already on Monday, opposition party leader Nawaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League, called for Musharraf's immediate resignation, according to the Dawn of Karachi, calling him "a one-man calamity and the source of all the problems."

Lyndon LaRouche immediately responded: "I denounce this. You don't have to be a fan for Musharraf to recognize that, obviously, trying to throw him out at this point, is going to destabilize Pakistan, and may cause it to cease to exist. And anyone, like Robert Novak, who's playing that kind of game, should be told to shut up, and told by me to shut up. If Musharraf is deposed at this point, in any way, Pakistan will disintegrate. And people who have lost their orientation, should recognize that.

"My recommendation," he continued, "is that Musharraf should organize the investigation of the murder of Benazir Bhutto. And, that what is required at this point, to fool all the meddlers who are trying to destroy Pakistan, is Musharraf should actually be given full support in his investigation of the conditions of the murder of Benazir. And, to add to that, the key thing we're concerned about, is that Benazir's advisers from London, are obviously the people who set her up for the assassination. And the investigation should be conducted from that standpoint."

While properly continuing to reject calls for an outside UN investigation, like the meddlesome UN investigation of the Rafik Hariri assassination in Lebanon, Pakistan's government now welcomes outside expert assistance for its own investigation, as Pakistan's Ambassador to Washington, Mahmud Ali Durrani, told the New York Times.

"That's a good statement," LaRouche responded, "but Musharraf should have the backing to make it work. There's no basis for the assumption that Musharraf was behind the assassination. She was set up! She probably would not have been murdered, if Musharraf had not been induced to step down from his military position; that was probably the key thing in getting her killed."

The New York Times claims that Benazir Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari, is not only calling for an "independent" United Nations investigation of the Hariri type, but even adding that that UN investigation should be aided by British authorities.

"If that's what he says," LaRouche insisted, "he apparently does not understand the situation. Cut the crap out! We're dealing with an internationally orchestrated crisis, under conditions of a general breakdown crisis of the international monetary-financial system, in which the British influence is the enemy. So, anything which says Britain should somehow be involved in moderating or steering this: the British should be kept out of it! Except in the defendant's docket!"

In response to the repeated warnings from Muslim League leaders and others that the strategic Pakistani province of Sindh may join the Northwest Frontier provinces in a motion towards secession and the splintering of the country, LaRouche said, "So, therefore, all this nonsense has got to be out of the way. Musharraf has got to take charge of the thing. He's got to be backed. He's got to be backed on the basis of national interest, not some personal this-or-that. He is the President of the country, and if you don't support the constitutional President of the country, you're just going to create more chaos. You have to give him the authority and responsibility for doing the job the President must do."

LaRouche has said that behind the British chaos plot, is the total disintegration of the international monetary-financial system due to pop to the surface on January 3,-- Thursday! Part of the background is that new, higher capital-adequacy standards for banks, the Basel II standards, became effective Jan 1 (a holiday). We have covered the recent pissing and moaning in the London Financial Times and elsewhere, that the new standards must be delayed or diluted. But, as LaRouche said yesterday, "they're going to come in anyway. That's what the Jan 3 is; Jan 3 is the day after that comes in."

Already on New Years Eve, a small subprime lending bank, the London Scottish Bank, admitted to the London Times that the British Financial Services Agency had ordered it to increase its capitalization by 13 million pounds ($26 million), to be allowed to operate under the new standards. But that 13 million pound "hole" will continue to grow as the bank increases its reported losses. As LaRouche said, "that's the case where the hole gets bigger than the trousers." British experts avow that this doesn't mean that that the whole subprime sector is automatically going to collapse. LaRouche responded: "It's not going to collapse; it already has! It collapsed already as a precaution against collapse."