Photog Describes How He Took Photos of Attack on Bhutto

By: E&P Staff The photos of Getty's John Moore are likely to stand as the most memorable and up-close from the scene of the Bhutto assassination today. He captured the final rally, the crowd near her car, Bhutto waving just seconds before the gun shots rang out, and then the suicide bomb explosion and crowd running -- and finally dead or bloodied bodies on the streets.

About a dozen of these historic photos -- with three minutes of Moore's narration -- were posted at www.nytimes.com tonight.

Moore, speaking over the pictures, describes Bhutto yelling excitedly about fighting terrorism at the rally. Then, he says, the crowd surrounded her car, "danced and wanted to touch her. It was very emotional, perhaps one of the reasons why she chose to climb up through the sun roof, despite clear and present danger."

In the last photos he took before she died, he saw her waving out of the corner of his eye, then "shots rang out and she went down," back into the car. Right at that moment he raised his camera over his head and started shooting, using the "high-speed motor drive" only, which explains why those shots are not in focus. But you do, as he says, "see the blast and fireball in some of the shots" and people running.

"They wanted to get her," he concludes, "and they did."

Also featured at the Times' site: an eight-minute audio report by John F. Burns.
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