Posted on 05/25/2002 8:30:30 AM PDT by flamefront
That simply isn't true. We have had troops stationed in bases in Pakistan for months now. We've conducted joint operations in the frontier areas, resulting the capture of the highest al-Qaida official, Zubaydeh, so far. They have turned over people to us without going through the extradition process. There's more, but it's pretty clear that your mind is closed on the matter and I'm wasting my time.
Say what you want about Pakistan, but the army is very tightly controlled and the discipline there is real. Those nukes are under very tight control, and to our satisfaction. Pakistan is not Somalia with nukes.
All it would take is another large terror attack. The Indians are on a hair trigger. If there are no more terror attacks this summer, then India will likely stand down.
That may be. Al-Qaida would love nothing more than to start such a war. It could get rid of Musharraf, and help unite the muslim world. It would certainly cause chaos, and that's just what they want.
Huh? Pakistan is a military dictatorship. The only control over the Military is the Generals who run it.
Even when Pakistan had a civilian government, the president had to ask the CIA to brief her on what Pakistans nuclear capabilities were. Her military would not tell her. Tightly controlled? What a joke.
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