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| Jihadis thrice attacked Pakistan nuclear sites |
| 2009-08-11 |
| WASHINGTON: Pakistan's nuclear facilities have already been attacked at least thrice by its home-grown extremists and terrorists in little reported incidents over the last two years, even as the world remains divided over the safety and security of the nuclear weapons in the troubled country, according to western analysts. The incidents, tracked by Shaun Gregory, a professor at Bradford University in UK, include an attack on the nuclear missile storage facility at Sargodha on November 1, 2007, an attack on Pakistan's nuclear airbase at Kamra by a suicide bomber on December 10, 2007, and perhaps most significantly the August 20, 2008 attack when Pakistani Taliban suicide bombers blew up several entry points to one of the armament complexes at the Wah cantonment, considered one of Pakistan's main nuclear weapons assembly. These attacks have occurred even as Pakistan has taken several steps to secure and fortify its nuclear weapons against potential attacks, particularly by the United States and India, says Gregory. In fact, the attacks have received so little attention that Peter Bergen, the eminent terrorism expert who reviewed Gregory's paper first published in West Point's Counter Terrorism Center Sentinel, said "he (Gregory) points out something that was news to me (and shouldn't have been) which is that a series of attacks on Pakistan's nuclear weapons facilities have already happened." |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 Update: Pakistan confirms the report but claims (of course) it's been taken out of context. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2009-08-11 16:51 |
| #2 and d) deception and secrecy Heh heh. I'll bet they attacked a frozen yogurt stand. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-08-11 11:08 |
| #1 "Pakistan insists that its nuclear weapons are fully secured and there is no chance of them falling into the hands of the extremists or terrorists" "other than the official ones, of course" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-08-11 08:29 |