Posted on 10/11/2009 7:25:46 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Pakistan's nuclear weapon bases have been attacked by al-Qaeda and the Taliban at least three times in the last two years, it has emerged.
The allegations, by a leading British expert on Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, increased fears that terrorists could acquire a nuclear device or could trigger a nuclear disaster by bombing an atomic facility.
In a paper for the respected anti-terrorism journal of America's West Point Military Academy, Professor Shaun Gregory, director of the Pakistan Security Research Unit at Bradford University, detailed three attacks since November 2007 and raised the spectre of more incidents in the future.
He said militants had struck a nuclear storage facility at Sarghoda on Nov 1 2007; launched a suicide bomb assault on a nuclear air base at Kamra on Dec 10 2007; and set off explosions at entrance points to Wah cantonment, one of Pakistan's main nuclear assembly plants, in August 2008.
These attacks had been launched despite an extensive security cordon around the facilities and millions of dollars in American technical aid to prevent militant infiltration.
Dr Anupam Srivastava, director of the Centre for International Trade and Security at Georgia University, who has advised the US government on nuclear security issues, told The Daily Telegraph he believed there had been more than three attacks on Pakistan's nuclear facilities and the Taliban and al-Qaeda militants would intensify its assaults.
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It’s only a matter of time.
BUT .... Her THIGHNESS, Swillary, said today that they PAKI Nukes were perfectly safe...
LOLOLOLOLHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHEHEHEHEHEHEHLOLOLOL
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and there are some imbeciles on FR who think this war that was declared on by our enemies will be no problem, all we have to do is save our money and just don’t think about the enemy.
Thanks for the ping Cindy. As someone else said, it’s only a matter of time.
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