Al Qaeda Plans For Takeover of Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons

This is a brief article here from Times Now so I'll excerpt the entirety of it below but it points to a book that has been released by al Qaeda leader and spokesman, Abu Yahya al-Libi, who reviews what he considers to be a critical plan for al Qaeda to safeguard and smuggle the nuclear weapons in Pakistan once the Taliban have taken over that country. Here's the entire article:

Al-Qaeda plans for nuke takeover in Pak


Even as Pakistan plans for its second nuke strike, reports suggested that Jihads backed by the al-Qaeda are preparing to take over the Pak's nuclear arsenal.

Senior al-Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al-Libi has released a book called 'Sharpening blades against Pakistan', in which al-Libi has said that it’s only a matter of time before the Taliban takes full control of Pakistan. Libi adds that the Mujahideen should prepare countermeasures against US' plans to prevent the fall of Pakistan's 24-48 nuclear warheads to the US by seizing, dismantling and smuggling Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.

Libi is confident the Mujahideen would not only control Pakistan's weapons of mass destruction, but would also gain control of copies of all the secret Pakistan-India agreements designed to prevent the targeting of nuclear facilities in any confrontation between the two countries. According to Libi preplanning for nuclear arsenal control is a lot better than planning for 30 years of Jihad.

I've read this article three times and still don't get the meaning of that first sentence - maybe one of you can enlighten me on what that second nuke strike means, but this has to be chilling to everyone. I've said it before here that al Qaeda rarely boasts without at least some tactical backup of what they say - they are far different from the Iranians who release jibberish and false claims just about daily. Now, the last few weeks have shown that the Pakistani army has been able to mount a decent offensive against the Taliban but I think what al-Libi is counting on is a victory by the Taliban by attrition - the Pakistanis just may not have the stomach for the long term war that would be required to fend off the Taliban over the next three to five years.

It's also pretty logical to assume that al Qaeda would play a big part in the demise of the Pakistani government with some strategically placed bombings in major cities across the country - if they can create the fear and chaos, we certainly could see the Pakistani civilian population turn to the Taliban - something we never saw in Iraq.

The fact that al Qaeda is already focusing on the handling of Pakistan's nukes is enough to spur the Pakistani government to finally wake up to the severity of the threat and at some point in time, that government is going to need to form some alliances with NATO to get the Taliban and al Qaeda pushed out of the country.