Pakistan in chaos following Bhutto's assassination.(Inside Track)(Benazir Bhutto )

Following the brutal assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on December 27, the nuclear-armed nation nominally led by U.S.-supported strongman Pervez Musharraf descended into violence and chaos. Bhutto, who had returned to Pakistan to seek the office of prime minister, had already survived one assassination attempt.

In October, a suicide bomber struck a rally held in Karachi to welcome her back. According to the London Times, after narrowly escaping that attempt on her life, "Bhutto said ... that she had received a letter, signed by someone claiming to be a friend of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, threatening to slaughter her like a goat." Al-Qaeda, in fact, has claimed responsibility for her assassination. Others, however, may bear some responsibility.

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In an e-mail to a friend and adviser written two months before her death and only revealed by CNN after the attack that took her life, Bhutto said that Musharraf should bear some of the blame in the event that she were killed. "Nothing will, God willing happen," she wrote in the e-mail that she instructed should only be publicly revealed by CNN's Wolf Blitzer in the event of her death. "Just wanted u to know if it does in addition to the names in my letter ...