Well, at least the Taliban in Pakistan finally have made their goals public as today they have announced that they seek to take over the country of Pakistan and with it, gain control of the country's nuclear weapons. I guess if that doesn't get some in the Pakistani government scrambling, nothing will.
From the article at IBNLive:
The Taliban has said they have no plans to attack Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, asserting that it is the only Muslim state possessing such weapons and the terror group aims to take over the country as well as its nukes.
Taliban has stepped-up violent campaign to avenge Osama bin Laden's death has renewed fears that the country's warheads could be vulnerable.
Declaring that "Pakistan is the only Muslim nuclear power state," Taliban Spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said that his group had no intention of changing the fact, Wall Street Journal reported. The Taliban, after all, aim to take over Pakistan and its weapons, he said.
A well coordinated Taliban attack on Pakistan key naval airbase at Karachi had triggered fresh global alarm that radical militant groups operating from the country's restive tribal areas bordering Afghanistan might be out to snatch nuclear weapons.
Seeking to dismiss these concerns, Ehsan claimed that US was using this as an excuse to pressurise Pakistan government and military into fighting Taliban, whom he portrayed as country's true protectors.
"Isn't it a shame for us to have the Islamic bomb, and even then we are bowing down to the pressures of America?" the Taliban spokesman mocked.
It has been nearly six months since the Pakistani government and military have set their sights on the Taliban - there have been no formal military operations inside of the country - it was almost like the Pakistani government was giving the Taliban every opportunity to rest, regroup and rearm in the winter season. And so now, the Taliban are in full spring offensive form and have now stated that the conquest of Pakistan is their goal.
Are the Pakistanis going to continue to just sit in their governmental offices and just wait for the day when they are overrun?
You just wait and see and mark my words ... within two years we will see the Pakistanis, under complete siege by the Taliban, will be crying and begging to the United States and NATO for help to protect their nukes and save their country. Just wait and see.
Taliban aims to take over Pakistan, its nukes
Washington: The Taliban has said they have no plans to attack Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, asserting that it is the only Muslim state possessing such weapons and the terror group aims to take over the country as well as its nukes.
Taliban has stepped-up violent campaign to avenge Osama bin Laden's death has renewed fears that the country's warheads could be vulnerable.
Declaring that "Pakistan is the only Muslim nuclear power state," Taliban Spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said that his group had no intention of changing the fact, Wall Street Journal reported. The Taliban, after all, aim to take over Pakistan and its weapons, he said.
A well coordinated Taliban attack on Pakistan key naval airbase at Karachi had triggered fresh global alarm that radical militant groups operating from the country's restive tribal areas bordering Afghanistan might be out to snatch nuclear weapons.
Seeking to dismiss these concerns, Ehsan claimed that US was using this as an excuse to pressurise Pakistan government and military into fighting Taliban, whom he portrayed as country's true protectors.
"Isn't it a shame for us to have the Islamic bomb, and even then we are bowing down to the pressures of America?" the Taliban spokesman mocked.
WSJ said Ehsan's remarks appeared tailored to appeal to that increasingly nationalist mainstream, where conspiracy theories flourish about American, Indian and Israeli plots to deprive Pakistan of its atomic arsenal.
Pakistan's nuclear capability is cherished here as the guarantor of safety from India's far larger conventional military.
1 comment:
Unless the US finds a way to close the madrossas, bomb the camps inside PAK, this will never end. This is like Vietnam revisited. Small highly trained teams, using indig. forces have been staking out the camps, targeting certain people, generally cruising under the radar. The US cannot use regulars inside the tribal areas, the FATA, or NWFP. This is where they are. We can't kill our way outta this, but we may break enough bones to MAKE them come to the table.
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