Posted on 08/12/2006 8:46:32 AM PDT by Grendel9
PAKISTAN. The centre is Pakistan. The source, the solution, the villains, the heroes, the beginning, and perhaps the end, of this latest terrorist challenge to civilised life all come from Pakistan. Most of the young men alleged to be at the centre of the terrorist plot are British-born of Pakistani origin. They co-ordinated their actions with terrorist groups in Pakistan.
Al-Qa'ida itself established its terrorist training camps, and plotted and controlled the attack on New York's twin towers, under the patronage of the Pakistan-backed Taliban government in Afghanistan.
Lashkar-e-Toiba, the al-Qa'ida-affiliated terrorist group that has made attempts to kill Australians on the Australian mainland, is Pakistan-based.
And yet it was intelligence co-operation from Pakistani authorities that enabled the British to foil this latest terror plot.
Pakistan is the pivotal nation. It is the only Muslim nation that undoubtedly possesses nuclear weapons. The International Atomic Energy Agency has testified that the father of the Pakistan bomb, AQKhan, passed nuclear warhead designs to Iran.
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