The panel said her death could have been prevented if the government under then-President Pervez Musharraf, the Punjab state government, and the Rawalpindi District Police had taken adequate measures "to respond to the extraordinary, fresh and urgent security risks that they knew she faced." Bhutto was killed in a Dec. 27, 2007, gun and suicide-bomb attack as she was leaving a rally in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, where she was campaigning to return her Pakistan People's Party to power in parliamentary elections. "Ms. Bhutto's assassination could have been prevented if adequate security measures had been taken," the commission said.

There's no way to protect someone in her position from a determined assassin, and she likely knew it, but she kept rolling the dice anyway and finally seven'd out ...