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Posted on 11/03/2007 11:18:58 AM PDT by casino66
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Faced with increasing violence and unrest, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency Saturday, government sources told CNN.
President Pervez Musharraf has faced a flurry of criticism from opponents in Pakistan.
Musharraf issued an order proclaiming the emergency and suspending the nation's constitution, according to a statement read on state television, and declaring martial law.
Musharraf is scheduled to address the nation at 1800 GMT (2 p.m. ET) Saturday.
The Supreme Court declared the state of emergency illegal, claiming Musharraf had no power to suspend the constitution, Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry told CNN.
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This is beginning to look real nasty and may drag us in a different direction. If AQ were to take over in Pakistan, it would have dire consequences for our mission in the ME.
Not good
Several threads already.
I just noticied and since it is only my second thread, I don’t know how to get it closed. Any help?
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Just let it go. This is really big so there will be many more threads. Perhaps a LIVE thread would be of some use in this breaking news situation.
I agree. This is MAJOR news. If Pakistan falls, every Islamist nutgroup in the ME will soon have nuclear weapons. If I were Ahmadinejad, I would be pulling my surrogates out of Iraq right now and storming the borders of Pakistan. Very serious situation.
There’s speculation on another thread that Bin Laden was killed inside Pakistan in the last day or so and the country is being locked down in anticipation of possible riots.
Does anyone think this might be a good thing? If the intend is to sweep the country and make large quantities of terrorist types assume room temperature only using very nasty methods would it be bad? I will wait and see before passing judgment on this. What looks bad in the beginning may not end up that way.
Probablility near zero. Disorder might grow quickly and the country become a basket case, but the nukes will not fall into bad hands.
So long, Usama. Better late than never to the gates of hell for yer sorry self.
Infinitely better.
I agree. Any democracy that puts terrorists in power is no democracy at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) estimates that Pakistan has built 24-48 HEU-based nuclear warheads with HEU reserves for 30-52 additional warheads.[8][9] The US Navy Center for Contemporary Conflict estimates that Pakistan possesses between a low of 35 and a high of 95 nuclear warheads, with a median of 60.[10]
The NRDC's and the Carnegie Foundation's estimates of approximately 50 weapons are from 2002-3 estimations. In 2000, US Military intelligence estimated that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal may be as large as 100 warheads.[11]. The actual size is hard for experts to gauge owing to the secrecy which surrounds the program in Pakistan.
Pakistan's nuclear warheads are based on an implosion design that uses a solid core of highly enriched Uranium and requires an estimated 15-20 kg of material per warhead. The NRDC also thinks that Pakistan has also produced a small but unknown quantity of weapons-grade Plutonium, which is sufficient for an estimated 3-5 nuclear weapons per annum based on the estimation of 5 kg of Plutonium per warhead. Pakistan also claims that the fissile cores are stored separately from the other non-nuclear explosive packages which, as the Government of Pakistan states, can be put together rather quickly.
Don't be so pessimistic. The appearance of Bhutto and the closing of the Supreme Court and Parliament IMO signals that Mossh has had enough.
Jihadis should be preparing to meet their virgins.
Just rememeber that Bhutto wouldn't have come to Pakistan without invitation by Moosh, and she has no qualms about calling the jihadis the scuzzballs that they are.
Great comment!
This could be a good thing.
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