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President Bush said: “The US strongly condemns this cowardly act by murderous extremists who are trying to undermine Pakistan’s democracy.” The UN Security Council met in emergency session last night and condemned the attack as a "heinous act of terrorism".

Ms Bhutto, who served as the first female prime minister in the Muslim world in the late 1980s, returned home from self-imposed exile in October after Mr Musharraf promised free and fair elections and dropped corruption charges against her.

She narrowly escaped death when a suicide bomber attacked her welcome-home rally in Karachi, killing 140 supporters.

In her message to Washington-based friend, Mark Siegel, a week after the attack she had been denied certain security measures that she had requested. Mr Siegel said that Ms Bhutto had asked authorities to provide such protection as a four-car police escort and jamming devices against bombs, but had not received them.

“I have been made to feel insecure by his minions,” Ms Bhutto wrote in the email, released by CNN last night. “There is no way what is happening in terms of stopping me from taking private cars or using tinted windows or giving jammers or four police mobiles to cover all sides cld (could) happen without him."

After the Karachi attack Mr Musharraf suspended the constitution and imposed a state of emergency which he later lifted only in the face of intense western pressure.

Addressing the rally in Rawalpindi’s Liaqat Bagh park shortly before her death, Ms Bhutto declared: “I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger.”

Ms Bhutto was waving from the sunroof of her bullet-proof Landcruiser when the assassin struck, first firing shots and then blowing himself up.

A doctor on the team that attended to Ms Bhutto said that she had taken a bullet in the back of the neck that damaged her spinal cord before exiting from the side of her head.

Another bullet pierced the back of her shoulder and came out through her chest, but the main cause of death was damage to her spinal cord, he said.

Mohammed Salman, a senior member of the Ms Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, said he was standing a few dozen metres from her vehicle when he heard the blast.

“After delivering the speech, she came down the stairs and got in her Landcruiser. Then we heard three fires (shots) and after that bomb blast went,” he said.

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