Scotland Yard - credible. FBI - not so much.

al-Reuters is reporting that Scotland Yard was chosen to investigate the Bhutto assassination because the US has such weak credibility in the region. This is so ridiculous on so many levels that I don't know where to begin...I'll leave it up to you

US given back seat in Pakistan investigation.

Pakistan's choice of Britain's Scotland Yard to help investigate the murder of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto puts the United States in the back seat and illustrates its weak credibility, analysts said.

It must have hurt these chicken scratch"nameless analysts" when they were forced to admit this later in the piece:
But analysts said Musharraf had little choice but to limit any U.S. role, given that the United States is viewed with mistrust in Pakistan and Musharraf is widely seen as a U.S. pawn.

Masters of the obvious. But I'm really beginning to worry. Is Arlen Specter R-PA (R for "retire already", for crying out loud) losing it or what?

Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Arlen Specter wrote U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to ask that he appoint an investigating commission that could include agencies like Scotland Yard and the FBI. "It is obvious that a U.N. investigation would have greater public credibility," Specter said.

The UN? Oh, please. Just say no! I mean really, can you just imagine the cluster phuk that would be?

The United Nations is ready to help if Pakistan asks, but Musharraf's government has made no such request, U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas said.