Via wlos.com (Local Western North Carolina News) -
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) -- Officials in Pakistan say a teenager arrested near the Afghan border claims he was part of a team of assassins sent to kill former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
An intelligence official says the 15-year-old told investigators that a militant leader with strong ties to al-Qaida sent a five-person assassination squad to Rawalpindi , where Bhutto was killed last month.
A senior district police officer in a town southwest of Islamabad says the teen was arrested there. He also said the suspect made "a sensational disclosure."Both officials spoke on the condition that they not be identified. An Interior Ministry spokesman said he had no information about any new developments in the Bhutto case.
The militant leader named by the teen is the same one blamed by U.S. intelligence officials, who say he organized the attack on Bhutto as part of a campaign of assassinations of Pakistani officials and suicide bombings in the country.
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