[thoughtomator]

This is nothing new... we've had control of the Paki nukes since 9/11, as we made them an offer they couldn't refuse.

[Southack]

You watch, if this thread heats up we'll see posters "blaming Bush" for spending too much and/or for not doing enough...even though we're talking about securing the freaking *nuclear* arsenal of a cooperating ally in the war on terror.

[swarthyguy]

Taken at face value, this is potentially a bomb for the General. Now Mush will have to deny this. This won't play well domestically at all, across all strata of society.

But, would Pakistani pride allow this scale of intrusion into its crown jewels; the repository of all their panislami visions, their Viagra of Jihad?

And, wouldn't the US want to give this image that it exercises control even if this commission had no real power at all.

IMO, we've had knowledge of and increasing but incremental control steadily after 9.11.

Perhaps it really is jihadi bait. We wouldn't offer nukes as jihadi bait unless we were certain of protecting them. (Thanks to BootHill for that one....

But what if there are more warheads than we think we know. "We don't know what we don't know".

IF AQ Khan got away with so much.....what's on that videotape that his daughter in Baghdad has? Doubt they'll ever show that on Aljazeera.

Pakistan, clear as mud.