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"Protecting the Principal" by Steve Payne
January 25: on this day in 2008
in her home city of Karachi, the Chairwoman of Pakistan Peoples Party Benazir
Bhutto announced her withdrawal from the national elections. The decision had
looked increasingly inevitable ever since her private security detail fired
indiscriminantly into the crowd at Liaquat National Bagh in Rawalpindi on
December 27th. ![]() "Our mission is to protect the principal at all costs" ~ Ann Starr The CEO of Blackwater International, Eric Prince contacted Miss Bhutto to
impress upon her the compelling piece of information that his private security
company had not lost a single "principal" under diplomatic protection. But the
price was not cheap, the bill for Paul Bremer's single year in Iraq was a
staggering $27m.
Steve Payne Editor of Today in Alternate History, a Daily Updating Blog of Important Events In History That Never Occurred Today. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Imagine what would be, if history had occurred a bit differently. Who says it didn't, somewhere? These fictional news items explore that possibility. Possibilities such as America becoming a Marxist superpower, aliens influencing human history in the 18th century and Teddy Roosevelt winning his 3rd term as president abound in this interesting fictional blog.
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