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| Top Pakistan nuclear scientists in Taliban Custody | |
| 2007-03-08 | |
| Two top nuclear scientists of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) are currently in Taliban custody. The two were working at PAECÂ’s facility in North West Frontier Province. Zee News investigations reveal that the two scientists were kidnapped about six months ago. To avoid international embarrassment Pakistan Government has kept this information under wraps. According to information available with Zee News, nuclear scientists have been kidnapped by Taliban at the behest of Al-Qaeda. Further investigations reveal that Al-Qaeda may be using the expertise of the scientists to produce nuclear bombs. The two scientists are reportedly being held somewhere in Waziristan, near Afghanistan border.
With repeated Al Qaeda threats to the US, news of kidnapping of nuclear scientists will increase pressure on Pakistan to attack terrorist camps. | |
| Posted by:John Frum |
| #11 After a fashion, I do tend to follow Dev's line here, not just because he's my son, of course, lol! "Wreck, mix and divide". Agreed, big US opportunity. |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2007-03-08 17:06 |
| #10 It is greatly true that the British empire did course quite some damage to the world, but it was a case of 'you don't want to be part of empire, hey' mahatma ghandi (spelling not sure on) was a great guy, but I believe we the British felt as though, if we leave India in a mess, (wreck the religions, mix the cultures, and divide the country) maybe just maybe they'll want us back... or we'll get the chance to go back. So don't be too hasty in your judgment of the old Empirical dayz cos now we are going back. Well the US is and for the US this is a big opportunity. |
| Posted by: devilstoenail 2007-03-08 16:20 |
| #9 I think they may have seen the Star Trek TNG Packlets episode too many times. "You will make us strong. You will make us go fast." |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2007-03-08 15:43 |
| #8 I had the same thought. Are they going to sit in a cave and rub uranium ore together? I can only imagine what a TaliBomb looks like. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2007-03-08 10:45 |
| #7 I'd be more concerned if they were engineers with bachelor's degrees, but still hardly concerned at all. The North West Frontier Province is not exactly Oak Ridge. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2007-03-08 09:11 |
| #6 He's all the pertinent Peking phone#, TW. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-03-08 08:20 |
| #5 Question: would your run-of-the-mill nuclear scientist -- not nuclear engineer -- be able to construct a working bomb? Follow-up: would a Pakistani-trained nuclear science PhD even be able to properly construct the necessary calculations beforehand? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-03-08 07:53 |
| #4 how long before the Taliban are able to place their "nuclear warheads" on the firewood/ducttape/baling wire- reinforced ICBM rockets??? We must act now! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-03-08 07:42 |
| #3 What a joke of a country. The Brits should never have enabled Partition. Regular posters should check out this legal news website: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/index.php?edition=world |
| Posted by: Sneaze 2007-03-08 06:10 |
| #2 To avoid international embarrassment Pakistan Government has kept this information under wraps. I Hope the CIA were informed or is this another case of Perv's dirty dealings!!!! |
| Posted by: Ebbolump Glomotle9608 2007-03-08 04:51 |
| #1 jeebus what a fucked up place. [pakistan is no longer a country, it's just a place] |
| Posted by: RD 2007-03-08 04:06 |