Pakistan Nuclear Power Is High Concern Amidst Rising Militancy

Radio Free Europe:

Advisers to U.S. President Barack Obama's administration say their worst security nightmare is the possibility that Pakistan -- a nuclear-armed country -- might fall under the control of Al-Qaeda militants.

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Comments

[TJCole]

We fought the wrong war, for the wrong reasons for the wrong people in Iraq...whi­ch allowed this toget so bad....

Bush may have condemned us all with his Iraq war...!

[RoveRoveRoveYourBoat]

...mobile phalis worship.
Small hung cowardly men
are the twisted autoritarians
who power trip to climb the
psycopath ladder to the top.
"GE - we bring good things to life"

[RRG64]

Really?

"President Reagan and his national-security aides saw the generals who ran Pakistan as loyal allies in the American proxy war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan : driving the Russians out of Afghanistan was considered far more important than nagging Pakistan about its building of bombs.

The Reagan Administration did more than forgo nagging, however; it looked the other way throughout the mid-ninete­en-eightie­s as Pakistan assembled its nuclear arsenal with the aid of many millions of dollars" worth of restricted, high-tech materials bought inside the United States. "

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0809-24.htm

[GoodFeathers]

If there is a government, it's only in the capital. The rest of the country is run by Taliban, Al Qida and other radical islamic fundamentalists. If anyone tells you Pakistani government is a democratically elected, you should seriously laugh your arse off.

I have no doubt that U.S. and the world are controlling this quasi country's nuclar (no spelling error) arsenal. It may even be possible that Pakistan may no longer have any nuclar weapon inside their country. They are making public claim about the weapons to keep Indians at bay.

[MESGAIN26]

this head line is misleading , first it said it was in their hands , then it said, Advisers to U.S. President Barack Obama's administration say their worst security nightmare is the possibility

[jymfrancais]

So , we allowed and helped this "never-stable"
country, obtaining nuclear power.
We supported a dictator who allowed some extremists
to take over soon
and we act all surprised?

[redisright]

no, its all bushes fault, the world started in 2001

[NickConrad]

Good argument, it manages to completely miss the point that during the Bush terms we lifted the Clinton-era sanctions on Pakistan (sanctions they earned for a nuclear test), and regularly met all nice and chummy with Musharraf all while not doing anything whatsoever to curb the tide of Taliban infiltration into Waziristan and Swat that Musharraf himself called "the good Al Qaeda".

Clearly, these things just spring up with no antecedent history to them whatsoever, and so to bring up any of that history (especially the most immediate of that history) is to play some partisan game of hackery as we all know there is no cause or effect to anything done by Republicans and only by Democrats.

[farru83]

America has been doing this for decades, and it always backfires.

puts the Shah of Iran into place- backfires

creates the tabliban to fight the sovietss- backfires

gives Pakistan crapload of money- backfires

[Paul]

Fires drone missles into Pakistan killing civilians - is when surprised Pakistanis object.

[norkas]

Cheny Bush has placed America into a nitemare that is almost NEVER ENDING.

When the sites were Osama Bib Laden 2 times Cheny Bush called them off from killing them,

Cheny Bush had American soldiers whom we love and honestly can never do enough for get killed cause injuries such as no legs , arms , blinded etc over LIESSSSSSSSSSSS and false reports.

Afgan we will nevr win in and Cheny Bush left us in a living hell their.

Yes i truly believe that Republicans like Cheny are into DEVIL WORSHIPING because they know the more wars the more contracts haliburton and other cronies get.

I would try to IMPEACH cHENY for TREASON aganist America for the good of America and both parties.

[postman606]

China is far more responsible for the development of Pakistan's nuclear technology.

[opilyhonza]

While true, it's not like the US did much to stop the development and still sold some material to Pakistan. China did supply most of the know how and materials, but they weren't the only players in the game.

[RRG64]

"President Reagan and his national-security aides saw the generals who ran Pakistan as loyal allies in the American proxy war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan : driving the Russians out of Afghanistan was considered far more important than nagging Pakistan about its building of bombs.

The Reagan Administration did more than forgo nagging, however; it looked the other way throughout the mid-ninete­en-eightie­s as Pakistan assembled its nuclear arsenal with the aid of many millions of dollars" worth of restricted, high-tech materials bought inside the United States. "

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0809-24.htm

[NickConrad]

This makes Nunn-Lugar look like a Disney movie.

[Solaris123]

It would interesting to find out what contingency plans exist to extract nukes from Pstanis in the event of the coup d'état. Obviously it's top secret, but fun to speculate.

[escribacat]

Yes. I hope they have a plan!

[Solaris123]

Ah yes, there's that.
Part of Cheney's admin. failure to prevent 9/11 was its aversion to anything Clinton admin had to offer on the subject of militant Islam. Example:Richard Clarke

Let's hope Obama doesn't fall into the same trap.

[vinny]

plan-schman.

[obamaluv]

whoo I am glad I don't have anything to worry about. How does nuclear terrorism just affect Obamas team anyway?

[Bitsko]

"Obama Team's Worst Nightmare"? How''s about India and the rest of Asia?

[escribacat]

No kidding.

[just saying]

They're assuming it's our job as international police to do something about it...and we buy into it because this assumption is never challenged.

[KillBillV2]

THIS is what happends when for 8 long years we diddle daddle in I raq and basically forget all about A phganistan and P akistan...

yikes!

[Layman23]

Exactly. Pakistans A.Q.Khan was the profilerator of WMD. Yet he was given a pardon. Pakistan was a stauch ally.

Which makes me think the Bush administration did this on purpose so they can constantly scare people about the threat of WMD and enact their own agenda. If they were hell bent on eradicating terrorism and WMD's, they should have gone to Pakistan and not Iraq !

[redisright]

thank god someone blamed this on bush. I was losing faith in socialists.

[Layman23]

I would rather be a socialist than a ignorant stupid republican. After all socialists in Europe have a better lifestyle and attitude than the "plantation owner" mentality that plagues most republicans !

[SaulZ]

There goes the USA establishment, Pentagon, CIA and its media again. 1st Iraq on WMDs and now another Muslim country on false pretext of Nukes falling in the hands of extremists in Pakistan. Wow! The web of lies - ain't all of us familiar with them now? Most of the Western, especially US analysts, have no idea how big Pakistan is and how diverse. Besides, nukes are not like laptops that can be stolen by criminals. The way false image is being created about that poor country leads me to believe that there is far more realistic danger lurking in the dark with respect to nukes. I am 100% convinced that US establishment, Pentagon and CIA are, in collusion with Israeli and Indian lobbies, planning a small nuke attack on the US soil or somewhere in Europe, blame it on Pakistan, move against it unilaterally and try to destroy it. I hope I am proven wrong, but this is my prediction - A staged, concocted drama to destroy another Muslim country.

[Libertarian78]

Dude ... go visit a psych.

[Bitsko]

How do you dream and type at the same time like that?

[Solaris123]

And this is from a Pakistani who lives in the West.
Imnagine for a second what kind of fantasies and rumors are flying around the actual Pakistani souks.
No wonder the response to Taliban is so tepid. All the more reason the nukes needs to be secured in the event of the attempted take over.

[escribacat]

Motive?

[just saying]

I totally agree...th­e sanest post I've seen yet today. Again, another 'potential reason' to invade another country!

[RRG64]

"There is a rich vein of “Pakistan on the Brink” theorization that has dominated US foreign policy since the 50s.

Back then, it was the Communist revolution, and now it is the Islamic one.

This particular mind-set has propelled one disastrous policy over another for the last 40 years.

We have supported dictator after dictator and stood by, silently, when civilian regimes floundered under internal economic and political crises."..­.

http://pakistaniat.com/2009/04/27/pakistan-theocracy/

[jaysan]

Typical Pakistani wallowing in self-pity. The fact that Pakistan is always resorting to outrageous stuntsmanship, such as proliferating nuclear weapons, creating Taliban, affiliating with AlQaeda, etc, shows that Pakistan is indeed always teetering on a precipice.

[RRG64]

So the fact that Reagan looked the other way why Pakistan assembled nukes from materials bought inside THIS country is irrelevant?

[AngieMom57]

If I were in Pakistan today I would be watching this you-tube on my high speed internet ready hand held device; because this man lived a life as a dual citizen of both America& Pakistan, educated and thrived economically, politically, transparently in both countries for over twenty five years...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK4307fPaPY

Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa

[AngieMom57]

A little physiology lesson regarding the word "Nightmare" placed in a headline..­.hold that thought...

[rubberstamp]

Funny any mention of the word "Dahuuphin tonne poe st" is automatically cens zoored