Top Pakistan nuclear scientists in Taliban Custody

Zee News ^ | March 6 2007

[jmc1969]

Two top nuclear scientists of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) are currently in Taliban custody. The two were working at PAEC’s facility in North West Frontier Province. Zee News investigations reveal that the two scientists were kidnapped about six months ago. To avoid international embarrassment Pakistan Government has kept this information under wraps.

According to information available with Zee News, nuclear scientists have been kidnapped by Taliban at the behest of Al-Qaeda.

[mewzilla]

Anything to do with the fact that the search for UBL is supposed to be heating up...?

[Nathan Zachary]

Hmmm. Could this be a cover-up by Paki-stan to explain why the Taliban/Osama bin Laden has nukes, and Paki-stans inventory records don't add up? Or maybe to shift the blame away from that other Jihadist nuclear scientist who was supposed to be under house arrest after it was discovered he was running a nuclear bomb technology ring.
Perhaps he did a little more than supply plans and materials to build centrifuges.

[ASA Vet]

[txhurl]

disturbing

[CaptRon]

Anything to do with needing their expertise?

[AdmSmith]

I read something about it several months ago, and at that time I did not regard them as important as a source of nuclear technology. They were not top scientists at that time. But, you can learn a lot studying 15 hours a day for 6 months ;-)

[piasa]

Zee News investigations reveal that the two scientists were kidnapped about six months ago.

About Sept-Oct of 2006.

Which is about the time this came out: Al-Qaida chief asks nuclear experts to join jihad Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | September 29, 2006 | DAVID RISING http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1710976/posts

[BBell]