Posted on 10/28/2001 5:56:40 PM PST by vrwc54
An elite American military unit is preparing for possible incursion into Pakistan in order to steal its nuclear weapons arsenal, it is reported today.The special forces unit is training with Israel's most trusted anti-terrorist unit, and would be called into action in the event that Gen Pervaiz Musharraf lost power in Pakistan, the New Yorker magazine said.
The CIA believes that Pakistani army officers sympathetic to the Taliban could pose a threat to Gen Musharraf, and that some of the country's estimated 24 nuclear warheads could be stolen by renegades within Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI.
Seymour Hersch, a journalist whose reporting on the post-September 11 crisis has been broadly accurate so far, said that members of Israel's Unit 262, or Sayeret Matkal, came to America soon after the attacks and have been training with Pentagon special forces.
Mr Hersch quoted a "senior military officer" as confirming that intense planning was going on for the "exfiltration" - theft - of warheads. But there are doubts about whether the CIA - or any other intelligence agency - knows the exact location of Pakistan's warheads, which were first tested, to the surprise of American intelligence agencies, in 1998.
The fear that Gen Musharraf could lose control of the country and some or all of the warheads is based on the close links between the ISI and the Taliban. Last week, the Pakistani president dismissed such concerns.
"We have an excellent command-and-control system which we have evolved, and there is no question of their falling into the hands of any fundamentalists," Gen Musharraf said. Pakistan is thought to have a number of intermediate-range missiles to carry its warheads as well as using F-16 fighter-bombers.
There are a number of possible targets for the use of these weapons by renegades sympathetic to the Islamic extremists in Afghanistan. These include India, itself a nuclear power, or the four American aircraft carriers and British vessels currently cruising off Pakistan's coastline as bases for air and commando attacks on the Taliban and al-Qa'eda.
Links to his articles are on this 911 Page of the online New Yorker:
Or maybe Im being too smart by half, and it WAS a subversive leaker and a treasonous reporter....
This has nothing to do with Blair and your comment about Sharon doesn't even make sense. The article says they're training with Israelis.
Including scrambling Air Force jets when a rogue airliner is headed towards DC.
Strange, isn't it?
That is a great graphic!
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Given the way security has been handled by the administration, so far, there is NO way this would have seen the light of day if those in power didn't want it to be so.
Of course this story can also be the product of Mr Hersch's fertile imagination ...the press is constantly whining they can't get any information.
Mr Hersch quoted a "senior military officer." This does not exclude Israeli military officers.
As for not making sense..someone with an ax to grind is not limited by nationality.
1-surface level. Well, this is a "duh" not even close to a leak. I mean, let's get real, pakistan has nukes, a long history of coups, and they got a lot of mad jihaders over there-OF COURSE they would be thinking about 'what the heck could we do-what are the options?" in a series of 'what if..." scenarios. I've assumed since India blasted off theirs and pak followed suit that they been planning for something like this.
2-deeper level--it's looking more and more to me like the end game here is to contribute more and more to fractionalization in the middle east to institute a series of wars and coups to keep in place tame puppets-because if we don't do it, the chinese are going to do it, then they get the pinata.
3-even deeper-well, neutralization of any credible opposition domestically and implementation of the NWO two class society is fully on track. They need even more "losses" to finish off the job of scaring the US and British people enough to swallow complete fascism. this will have to happen with a few 'defeats" in the foreign war-whoops! loose nukes, etc- and more "domestic terror attacks", involving a lot more causalities and panic and fear than 911.
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