The strongest evidence for the GoP's version are the X-Ray's, and perhaps your background can help here Energon - is there a chance that X-Rays would not show the damage from a bullet wound or a bullet or piece of shrapnel lodged in her head?
If the GoP wanted to cover up anything it wouldn't matter how BB died. So the accusations of a "cover up" just because there is a difference over the "cause of death" does not make sense. Ineptitude perhaps.
Agnostic,
The issue is important since the AQ tactics is suicide bombing and not shooting.
Therefore, it gives the angle that some other organisation could have been at work!
This puts a lot of speculation and all sorts of theories!
Whatever be the case, the govt's stand and the videos showing the shooting has added to the mystery.
Indeed, if there was no bullet wound, then why was not the autopsy done, when everyone, including the govt knew that there would be a whole lot of conspiracy theories abound.
Autopsy cloud on police
Islamabad, Dec. 30 (PTI): The decision not to conduct an autopsy on Benazir Bhutto’s body was taken by the Rawalpindi police chief even though a medico-legal report based on a mandatory post-mortem is a must in a murder case under Pakistani law.
“Even if the family of a murder victim refuses to allow the autopsy, no investigation can be completed if doctors do not perform the autopsy and conclusively find the cause of death,” said Athar Minallah, a lawyer and member of the board of Rawalpindi General Hospital where Bhutto was taken.
He said doctors who treated Bhutto had told him they wanted to conduct the autopsy but the Rawalpindi police chief had not agreed to this.
“The doctors were worried that their initial report, which did not determine the definite cause of death, is being politically twisted,” he told The News.
Minallah’s statement is contrary to interior ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema’s, who had said the autopsy was not done at the request of Bhutto’s husband Asif Ali Zardari.
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | International | Autopsy cloud on police
It is also interesting that Zardari did not want an autopsy when:
“Even if the family of a murder victim refuses to allow the autopsy, no investigation can be completed if doctors do not perform the autopsy and conclusively find the cause of death,” said Athar Minallah, a lawyer and member of the board of Rawalpindi General Hospital where Bhutto was taken.
Interwsting is also this:
Sunday,30 December 2007 18:16 hrs IST
Bhutto 'blocked from hiring foreign guards'
Manorama Online Home
By blocking private security, it becomes incumbent to provide adequate security and hence more ammunition for the Bhutto camp and greater becomes the mystery or so it appears.
Therefore, indeed Bhutto wanted her own security personnel around her, possibly suspecting that "rogue elements" may also be in the security provided by the govt, whom she did not trust.
And adding to all this is Sherry Rehman claiming that when she washed the body for the burial, she found a bullet wound.