Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Bhutto Receives New Death Threat

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Tuesday she had received a new death threat but will start campaigning in Pakistani cities in the next couple days, avoiding mass rallies.

Five days after the suicide bombing that killed at least 136 at her homecoming procession in Karachi, Bhutto said her lawyer received a letter from an unidentified "friend of al-Qaeda" threatening to slaughter her "like a goat."

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