DN!: Fmr Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto Assassinated//Indigenous Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:23:43 -0500 DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY EMAIL DIGEST December 27, 2007 = = = = = = = = = Visit the Democracy Now! webstore today for hats, T-shirts, mugs, totebags, books, DVDs and other holiday gift ideas or to make a year-end contribution: http://www.democracynow.org/contribute/donate_money = = = = = = = = = Democracy Now! is accepting applications for internships in New York City for the winter/spring semester. Please email admin@democracynow.org for more information. = = = = = = = = = TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!: * Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto Assassinated * Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated just two months after returning to Pakistan from exile. She died after an apparent suicide attack in the city of Rawalpindi. Bhutto had just addressed an election rally when gunfire and an explosion occurred. We go to Pakistan and simulcast part of the breaking news coverage on Dawn News and speak with Sadaf Aziz, professor of law and policy at Lahore University of Management Sciences, and Zia Mian, a physicist with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/27/former_pakistani_prime_minister * Greg Palast Reports on the Battle Between Indigenous Ecuadorians and the U.S. Oil Giant Chevron * Investigative Journalist Greg Palast files this report from the rainforests of Ecuador, where an indigenous tribe is suing Chevron for $12 billion for contaminating the Amazon. We also play part of Palastıs interview with Ecuadorıs President Rafael Correa. 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