US and Israel Training To Steal Pakistan's Nukes
Another Brillitant Idea We've Been Drug Into By Israel
10/29/01 11:59:04 AM
London Daily Telegraph
Islamabad, Pakistan -- [Let's hope they're more successful than the two
failed US Special Forces
missions so far.]
US special unit 'stands by to steal atomic warheads'
By Ben Fenton
(Filed: 29/10/2001)
AN elite American military unit is preparing for possible incursion into
Pakistan in order to steal its nuclear weapons arsenal, it is reported
today.
The special forces unit is training with Israel's most trusted
anti-terrorist
unit, and would be called into action in the event that Gen Pervaiz
Musharraf
lost power in Pakistan, the New Yorker magazine said.
The CIA believes that Pakistani army officers sympathetic to the Taliban
could
pose a threat to Gen Musharraf, and that some of the country's estimated
24
nuclear warheads could be stolen by renegades within Pakistan's
intelligence
service, the ISI.
Seymour Hersch, a journalist whose reporting on the post-September 11
crisis
has been broadly accurate so far, said that members of Israel's Unit 262,
or
Sayeret Matkal, came to America soon after the attacks and have been
training
with Pentagon special forces.
Mr Hersch quoted a "senior military officer" as confirming that intense
planning was going on for the "exfiltration" - theft - of warheads. But
there
are doubts about whether the CIA - or any other intelligence agency -
knows the
exact location of Pakistan's warheads, which were first tested, to the
surprise
of American intelligence agencies, in 1998.
The fear that Gen Musharraf could lose control of the country and some or
all
of the warheads is based on the close links between the ISI and the
Taliban.
Last week, the Pakistani president dismissed such concerns.
"We have an excellent command-and-control system which we have evolved,
and
there is no question of their falling into the hands of any
fundamentalists,"
Gen Musharraf said. Pakistan is thought to have a number of
intermediate-range
missiles to carry its warheads as well as using F-16 fighter-bombers.
There are a number of possible targets for the use of these weapons by
renegades sympathetic to the Islamic extremists in Afghanistan. These
include
India, itself a nuclear power, or the four American aircraft carriers and
British vessels currently cruising off Pakistan's coastline as bases for
air
and commando attacks on the Taliban and al-Qa'eda.
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