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“Pakistan is the world’s only Muslim country which has a nuclear bomb, an Islamic nuclear bomb.”
On October 20, 2008, Joe Biden, as Barack Obama’s running mate, may have given a rather prescient warning, that within the first sixth months of Obama’s presidency, he’d face an international crisis which would “test” his “mettle”.
A little over three months into Obama’s presidency, Biden’s warning about an international crisis may be coming true, as Pakistan, with its arsenal of nuclear weapons, could be poised for a coup by Islamic extremists, including the Taliban.
From ABC News:
“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
April 19, just shy of three months Obama’s inauguration the Times of India reported that unnamed “U.S. Intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials have concluded that there’s little hope” regarding the situation in Pakistan:
“A growing number of US intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials have concluded that there’s little hope of preventing nuclear-armed Pakistan from disintegrating into fiefdoms controlled by Islamist warlords and terrorists, posing the a greater threat to US than Afghanistan’s terrorist haven did before 9/11.
“It’s a disaster in the making on the scale of the Iranian revolution,” said a US intelligence official who requested anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly.
Pakistan’s fragmentation into warlord-run fiefdoms that host al-Qaida and other terrorist groups would have grave implications for the security of its nuclear arsenal; for the US-led effort to pacify Afghanistan; and for the security of India, the nearby oil-rich Persian Gulf and Central Asia, US and its allies.
Pakistan has 173 million people and 100 nuclear weapons, an army which is bigger than the American army, and the headquarters of al-Qaida sitting in two-thirds of the country which the government does not control,” said David Kilcullen , a retired Australian army officer, a former State Department adviser and a counterinsurgency consultant to the Obama administration.
“Pakistan isn’t Afghanistan, a backward, isolated, landlocked place that outsiders get interested in about once a century,” said US intelligence official. “It’s a developed state . . . (with) a major Indian Ocean port and ties to the outside world, especially the Gulf, that Afghanistan and the Taliban never had.”
April 22, Reuters reported that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a warning to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the situation in Pakistan as a “mortal threat to the to the security and safety of our country and the world.”
Swat Valley
One of 191 schools destroyed by Taliban in Swat Valley
Clinton spoke before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the situation in Pakistan, of the Pakistan government signing a regulation which imposed Islamic, or Sharia law, in the Swat Valley after Islamic militants moved in and instigated a reign of terror.
From the Telegraph:
“The area is now mostly under the control of a Taliban commander, Mullah Fazlullah, who rules via dozens of Sharia courts and who issues ordinances which are announced by FM radio broadcasts.
Whippings, executions and the bombing and closure of schools are now commonplace.
Jaffar Khan, a member of the North West Frontier Province’s ruling Awami National Party (ANP) in Swat, said: “The situation is worse with every day. People are facing great problems. The militants have started a new wave of target killings and slaughter.
“The call themselves the Taliban, but we don’t know who they are. Everybody believes that national and international intelligence agencies are playing a game there. But we don’t know what it is and when it will end.”
Zubair Torwali, a social activist, said that the main square of Swat’s capital, Mingora, has been dubbed Khooni Chowk, or Bloody Square, because every day bodies of the militants’ executed victims are dumped there or some strung up poles.”
Since the Swat Valley fell to the Taliban, they’ve “swept” across the Pakistan countryside to Buner, 60 miles from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, with a mountain range and the river Indus separating the two. Not only have they taken over the Swat Valley, they’ve offered Bin Laden “safe shelter”.
In 2008, the threat of the Taliban gaining control of Pakistan’s estimated 40-100 nuclear weapons was written about in the BBC News:
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by LBG/Mondoreb
Source: Obama May Face First International Crisis as Taliban Inches Closer to Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons
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2 users commented in " Obama May Face First International Crisis as Taliban Inches Closer to Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackPakistan has always been divided by along tribal lines. The conflict in Afghanistan primed the pump for Pakistani militants who are exploiting tribal differences, and the semi-autonomous nature of Pakistani regions to expand their control of the region. The recent adoption of Sharia law in Swat marked the beginning of what I suspect will be a sustained and probably successful attempt by these militant groups to overthrow the current Pakistani social oder one region at a time. There is a really great story about this on newsy.com,
Should be alot more interesting at the TBan approach the nuclear weapons. I can’t see this as a test of the new adminstration, though. More like the end game of a war which had progressed through the last two decades or so.. Or even three. Or even back to the colonial battles for control of the Khyber pass. I just hope the Paki’s have the sense to destroy their weapons in place before they are overun and/or the goods are taken.
Think about that one for a minute. You are a commander of a bunker in pakistan which has special weapons, are you going to ride the flame or buy your way out with who ever provides the most money or greatest threat? Let’s hope Hillary has the war chest well funded on her trip.
damm, we didn’t learn a single thing from vietnam. Leave the insurgeants an escape route and they will come back and bite us on the ass. This time though, the bite may be a bit more severe, than losing a country without nukes which was happier without us.
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