India news reporter today says terrorists from Pakistan are targeting American & British tourists at hotels...
NOVEMBER 26, 2008, 10:42 A.M. ET
Al Qaeda’s Focus Is Pakistan, U.S. Senior Commander Says
By YOCHI J. DREAZEN
WASHINGTON — Pakistan has replaced Iraq as al Qaeda’s main focus, and the terror group has stepped up its efforts to destabilize the nuclear-armed South Asian nation, according to a senior U.S. military commander.
[Gen. James Conway]
“Iraq is now a rear-guard action on the part of al Qaeda,” said Gen. James Conway, the head of the Marine Corps and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in an interview. “They’ve changed their strategic focus not to Afghanistan but to Pakistan, because Pakistan is the closest place where you have the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122766140111858667.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
I know it sounds like a crazy idea, but it might eventually come down to that. The specter of an Ayman al-Zawahiri getting his hands on these nukes is too horrible to contemplate.