"As the security situation in the Northwest Frontier Province continues to
deteriorate and President Pervez Musharraf's political stock continues to drop,
the US military intelligence community is 'urgently assessing how secure
Pakistan's nuclear weapons would be in the event President Gen. Pervez Musharraf
were replaced.' Meanwhile, the Taliban and al Qaeda have dispersed operatives
from the training camps in the Northwest Frontier Province and are preparing to
fight on their own terms. With the Pakistani government facing a robust Taliban
insurgency in the Northwest Frontier Province, a significant al Qaeda presence
inside the country and a violent cadre of homegrown Islamist extremists, the
security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal has taken on an elevated importance. The
US intelligence community believes it has a handle on the location of Pakistan’s
nuclear warhead, but there are questions over who controls the launch codes in
the event of Musharraf’s passing. "
Al Qaeda is like that homeless person that you allow to stay with you for a few days because they are having problems. They then trash the place and throw a party which gets you in trouble with your landlord.
I have two thoughts about this. One is that the root of this goes back to when Al Qaeda and the Taliban were being attacked in Afghanistan. They were driven across the Pakistan border and the army of Pakistan allowed them to flee and take refuge there. Now they are stronger, remember it is acceptable under Islamic law to be friends with your enemy when you are weak, then you must crush them when you get stronger.
My second thought on this, talk to Musharraf, and get as much information about the location of nuclear weapons as he will give us. Use all means available to locate these weapons. If there is an attack that over throws the government, the US could launch and immediate attack on all sites in Pakistan where nuclear weapons are located - with conventional weapons to neutralise their threat.
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