[rightwingextremist1776]

The former head of Pakistan's nuclear research programme, who is also an outspoken supporter of Islamic radicals

This sure gives me a warm and fuzzy! Sure hope ours work!

[Bigg Red]

Hope they got him in time! Criminy!

[Dog Gone]

The authorities would not say why Mr Mehmood, who was project director of Pakistan's nuclear program prior to his retirement last year, was arrested.

Well, good. I hope they never say and that he never sees the light of day again.

Pakistan is sending a signal. Let's hope it's heeded.

[Sabertooth]

Nuclear Paki-bump

[spycatcher]

Save his brain in a jar for research

[MississippiMan]

Relatives said that he had been working recently on projects in Afghanistan, including land development, educational reform and food programmes.

WHAT? No baby formula project? This is an outrage.

MM

[Amerigomag]

Herein lies the nut of our problem with militant Islamic states if this problem is to be resolved for more than a handful of years. We must identify and neutralize the scientists who have a sophisticated knowledge of either nuclear, chemical or bio weapons design and manufacturing processes.

We probably have a pretty fair list of the individuals in Iraq because of almost 3 years of weapons monitoring but to indentify these individuals in Pakistan or Iran without the cooperation of their respective governments may be difficult.

[concerned about politics]

The former head of Pakistan's nuclear research programme, who is also an outspoken supporter of Islamic radicals, has been arrested in Pakistan and placed in "protective custody", the government said today.
He was detained with another scientist from the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission

Sounds like they need them for insurance purposes. It depends on what the definition of the word "arrest" is.
It sounds more like "we're keeping them handy, just in case."

[bond7]

Relatives said that he had been working recently on projects in Afghanistan, including land development, educational reform and food programmes. Riiiight.

[xm177e2]

Relatives said that he had been working recently on projects in Afghanistan, including land development, educational reform and food programmes.

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He was a bigtime nuclear scientist... it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what he was probably doing there

[SolitaryMan]

had links to other hardline Islamic groups in Pakistan.

Well...isn't that just DUCKY!

[San Jacinto]

So Pakistan's head nuclear researcher is a radical raghead kook. Gee, I wonder if those terrorists could ever get a nuke. I just wonder.

[6ppc]

Holy shiite, Batman!

[Thud]

Now we're closing in on worst case scenarios. IMO it is likely that Iraq got access to Pakistani nuclear weapons data and designs courtesy of this guy.

At which point the only question is how much weapons-grade fissionable material Iraq has. xSoviet stuff doesn't count due to its higher manufacturing impurities causing it to decay into ineffective fizzles at this point. I read someplace that Iraq had almost enough to make a bomb when the Gulf War started.

Our port security and conquering what's left of Iraq just shot to #1 on my priority list. Ahead of finishing off Osama bin Laden.

[Praxeologue]

None of these countries should have been permitted to develop nuclear weapons. We should have handled it the way the Israelis looked after the Iraqi nuclear program. Now they're going to send a kook with a nuclear suitcase to New York.

We knew this would happen thirty years ago. Just like Rip van Winkle, we slept while they conspired.

I hope Bush, Cheney and Rummy can get us out of this.

[Andrew Byler]

Holy s*** Batman! Relatives said that he had been working recently on projects in Afghanistan, including land development, educational reform and food programmes.

Yeah, sure. Jimmy Carter signed him up for Habitat for Humanity in Afghanistan, so he took a sabbatical to do some charity work. That's about as credible as someone claiming the sky is green.

Doesn't this article just give you all sorts of warm fuzzies?

[Lazamataz]

The former head of Pakistan's nuclear research programme, who is also an outspoken supporter of Islamic radicals, has been arrested in Pakistan and placed in "protective custody", the government said today.

"We don't know on what charges," his son Asim Mehmood said.

Being a nuclear-capable towelhead is enough reason for me.

[aristeides]

Wasn't ISI (which also spawned the Taliban) behind the Pakistani nuclear program?

[MilburnDrysdale]

Call me an optimist, but as the HEAD of the program in question, he might be persuaded to tell us everything about the location of the project and who financed it. We need him alive and I applaud the Pakistanis for grabbing him--this man needs to be tortured mercilessly until he tells us what we need to know

[FReethesheeples]

Good for Musharraf for having him arrested.

This takes personal courage.