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2007-12-01 India-Pakistan

Bush handed blueprint to seize Pakistan's nuclear arsenal

The man who devised the Bush administration's Iraq troop surge has urged the US to consider sending elite troops to Pakistan to seize its nuclear weapons if the country descends into chaos.

In a series of scenarios drawn up for Pakistan, Frederick Kagan, a former West Point military historian, has called for the White House to consider various options for an unstable Pakistan.

These include: sending elite British or US troops to secure nuclear weapons capable of being transported out of the country and take them to a secret storage depot in New Mexico or a "remote redoubt" inside Pakistan; sending US troops to Pakistan's north-western border to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida; and a US military occupation of the capital Islamabad, and the provinces of Punjab, Sindh and Baluchistan if asked for assistance by a fractured Pakistan military, so that the US could shore up President Pervez Musharraf and General Ashfaq Kayani, who became army chief this week.

The man who devised the Bush administration's Iraq troop surge has urged the US to consider sending elite troops to Pakistan to seize its nuclear weapons if the country descends into chaos.

In a series of scenarios drawn up for Pakistan, Frederick Kagan, a former West Point military historian, has called for the White House to consider various options for an unstable Pakistan.

These include: sending elite British or US troops to secure nuclear weapons capable of being transported out of the country and take them to a secret storage depot in New Mexico or a "remote redoubt" inside Pakistan; sending US troops to Pakistan's north-western border to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida; and a US military occupation of the capital Islamabad, and the provinces of Punjab, Sindh and Baluchistan if asked for assistance by a fractured Pakistan military, so that the US could shore up President Pervez Musharraf and General Ashfaq Kayani, who became army chief this week.

Posted by john frum 2007-12-01 07:24|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 Leave it to The Guardian to make such obviously necessary planning sound like another eeeeeevil Bush plot to take over the world.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-12-01 13:11|| 2007-12-01 13:11|| Front Page Top

#2 To any sane person the above reads like a rock solid game plan. The "US military occupation of the capital" needs to be a consistent feature of all other invasions in the MME (Muslim Middle East), with the notable exception of Iran. A special example needs to be made out of Tehran's mullahs. Lamp posts should figure prominently in their very near future.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-12-01 14:28|| 2007-12-01 14:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds good to me!

Posted by Peter Carroll 2007-12-01 15:11|| 2007-12-01 15:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Damn straight...

Neither Pakistan nor North Korea has manufactured a tractor or a high speed lathe... they possess nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles only because of China, which uses them as proxies to tie down its rivals in local disputes.

Having neither the scientific nor industrial basis for weaponry of this magnitude, nor a stable and sane government structure, both nations need to be defanged...

Posted by john frum 2007-12-01 17:04|| 2007-12-01 17:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Are they Paki-nukes or Saudi nukes.
Its an important question.

Posted by 3dc 2007-12-01 17:13|| 2007-12-01 17:13|| Front Page Top

#6 they possess nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles only because of China, which uses them as proxies to tie down its rivals in local disputes.

Something that China needs a major beatdown for. With Russia's triangulating assistance, they are repeating this pattern in Iran and still, somehow, the West just doesn't get it. We need to break China's economic back post haste before they can gin up yet one more threat to Western civilization.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-12-01 17:24|| 2007-12-01 17:24|| Front Page Top

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