As far as I can tell, it makes no difference to Musharaff, or almost anyone else, if the bullets killed her or the bomb (set off by the gunman) did. The security doesn't look any better missing somebody carrying a bomb than somebody carrying a gun.

The hard fact is that it is almost impossible to keep someone from killing somebody, especially if the assassin doesn't care if he's killed himself. Sometimes I'm amazed that Bush, or the generals in Iraq, are still walking around in one piece. Somebody actually tossed a grenade at Bush once, which failed to go off. This made surprisingly little news.