Solid evidence Bhutto killing was Al Qaeda plot: police

8220;We have arrested five people in connection with the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and they have told us that Baitullah Mehsud had approved the plan to kill her,8221; Chaudhry Abdul Majeed told reporters. Majeed identified Bhutto8217;s attacker as Saeed alias Bilal, saying he had met with Mehsud weeks before the attack on Bhutto, according to a detainee who had traveled to troubled South Waziristan.

Majeed said he had 8220;solid evidence8221; to back up their claim, and added that two other men, Qari Ismail and Nasrullah, who had links with Bhutto8217;s killer, had died in a shootout with security forces in another tribal area of Pakistan in January.