[Cool Guy]

BUMP!

[BlackJack]

maybe.....but......do they have a delivery system? The bombs they have are crude and big,bulky. If they have Russian suitcase jobs....thats scary.

[6ppc]

Hope we've got this under control.

[grimalkin]

wow.

[AF68]

Kiss those big retirement checks good-bye, renegade Paki nuclear scientist scumbags!

[sit-rep]

FYI

[GVnana]

The West is reportedly also concerned about A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb... he had publicly expressed sympathy for the jehad movement, it was rumoured he was joining the fundamentalists.

Great. Jihadists with a bomb. This will indeed be a long war. Which leads to my question. Why is it those in the "scientific community" impart information and materiel with apparent abandon to any nutcase bearing parchment? The Ames strain of anthrax didn't hit the streets by itself.

[Fusion]

One of the more troubling aspects of America's new war on terror is the failure of the average US citizen to understand that Islamic entente forces indeed have "Allah's Suitcase" capability. These half to two kt yield devices to remake the world in a stunning flash of fire and light that will shake the earth and plunge mankind into a new Dark Age...

Dry is good and wind is better...

However this "Sudden death" bomb to end overtime will no doubt follow other fourth quarter scenarios. What will happen after Thanksgiving, when one weekend several crowded shopping malls are attacked simultaneously?

When several small plastique explosions send crowds scurrying to blocked fire exits -- and Islamic entente suicide gunmen open fire, probably only fifty or sixty will be killed at each location.

But starting on the East coast, shopping malls across the country will close when a second attack occurs an hour later in another state. Panicked shoppers will refuse to go out and suddenly the crucial Christmas shopping season will be lost. What will this low tech attack do to the American economy?

Mall rent a cops and off duty police and sheriff deputies will stop this style of attack? In colder weather when everyone wears a coat that can hide an assault rifle or a pair of semi-auto pistols? When everyone carrys packages that can hold several 2kg bombs?

This scenario may only kill a hundred or so people but it will shut down the US economy for the fourth quarter...

Then "Allah's Suitcase" will be opened. As they say, "Dirty bomb, double the yield..."

Millions to die in the Third World War. Yet America is hesitant to take the fight to the madman Saddam Hussein. How many US cities must be destroyed by "misplaced" Russian suitcase nuclear bombs for America to strike back?

Must Chicago be blasted? Or Houston... before the US will use its own nuclear devices in the war between civilisations?

The forces of freedom on the move. Europe trembles.

[RoseyT]

One of the many fears I have is that the reason the Taliban keeps yelling about a ground war is because they want to use a nuke on them. {sigh}

[Scott from the Left Coast]

the very knowledge Kabul has weapons-grade nuclear material could deter US bombing as Washington would have to fear a terrorist strike that could leave nuclear contaminants

I think their summation is in error. Their logic is bad. This fact would cause the U.S. to increase its efforts, no appeasement like what they suggest would bring any measure of safety at all -- the only safety is in their complete and swift destruction.

[B Ireland]

As I have been saying, the greatest peril in the present conflict is that Pakistan's nuclear weapons could fall into Islamic extremist's hands.

Neither India nor the U.S. could tolerate this shift of power...

[Terriergal]

I'm still hoping (hope hope hope) they're just saying this to get us off their backs... (Bad gamble for them I say)

[Publius6961]

I certainly hope that all Pakistanis educated in the Nuclear sciences in all western countries is identified and his whereabouts determined.
How many could there be in the last 30 years?.
Specially for a country that is not quite in the 21st century just yet.

[piasa]

Interesting article in light of recent news from Pakistan...

After retirement, Bashiruddin had formed an NGO called Ummah Tameer-e-Nau (Reconstruction of the Muslim Ummah). This NGO was affiliated to the Al Rasheed Trust, an organisation banned for its links with Al-Qaeda network. The NGO was one of the few allowed by Mullah Muhammad Omar to carry out relief work in Afghanistan.