AmeriKa better go secure 'em then!
"Pakistan eyes sea-based, short-range nuclear weapons" by Tim Craig | Washington Post September 28, 2014
Also known as the CIA's newspaper.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In one of the world’s most volatile regions, Pakistan is advancing toward a sea-based missile capability and expanding its interest in tactical nuclear warheads, according to Pakistani and Western analysts.
The development of nuclear missiles that could be fired from a Navy ship or submarine would give Pakistan ‘‘second-strike’’ capability if a catastrophic nuclear exchange destroyed all land-based weapons.
Just talking about such a thing makes me cringe.
But the acceleration of Pakistan’s nuclear and missile programs is renewing international concern about the vulnerability of those weapons in a country home to more than two dozen Islamist extremist groups.
So where is the nuclear false flag going to be, Chicago?
‘‘The assurances Pakistan has given the world about the safety of its nuclear program will be severely tested with short-range and sea-based systems, but they are coming,’’ said Michael Krepon, cofounder of the Stimson Center, a Washington-based global security think tank. ‘‘A cardinal principle of Pakistan’s nuclear program has been: ‘Don’t worry; we separate warheads from launchers.’ Well, that is very hard to do at sea.’’
At least someone is thinking through these issues.
Western officials have been concerned about Pakistan’s nuclear program since it first tested an atomic device in 1998.
Something the CIA completely missed. Seems to be a pattern with them, with the fall of the Soviet Union and Iraq WMD two notable examples.
Those fears have deepened over the past decade amid political tumult, terror attacks, and tensions with the country’s nuclear-armed neighbor, India, with which it has fought three wars.
I'm sorry, guys, but I truly am all out of fear. Que Sera, Sera.
That instability was underscored this month, as antigovernment protests in the capital appeared to push Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government to the brink of collapse.
That is interesting because that situation blew over quick, leading me to believe Sharif got back in line.
The political crisis was unfolding as Pakistan and India continued lobbing artillery shells across their border, in a tit-for-tat escalation that illustrated the continued risk of another war.
Some folks are crossing their fingers, and now WaPo is talking nukes?
For more than a decade, Pakistan has sent signals that it’s attempting to bolster its nuclear arsenal with ‘‘tactical’’ weapons — short-range missiles that carry a smaller warhead and are easier to transport.
Over the past two years, Pakistan has conducted at least eight tests of various land-based ballistic or cruise missiles that it says are capable of delivering nuclear warheads. Last September, Sharif, citing ‘‘evolving security dynamics in South Asia,’’ said Pakistan is developing ‘‘a full spectrum deterrence capability to deter all forms of aggression.’’
That's the same philosophy cited by US war planners.
The next step of Pakistan’s strategy includes an effort to develop nuclear warheads suitable for deployment from the Indian Ocean, either from warships or from one of the country’s five diesel-powered Navy submarines, analysts say.
In a sign of that ambition, Pakistan in 2012 created the Naval Strategic Force command, which is similar to the air force and army commands that oversee nuclear weapons.
‘‘We are on our way, and my own hunch is within a year or so, we should be developing our second-strike capability,’’ said Shireen M. Mazari, a nuclear expert and the former director of the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad, a hawkish Pakistani government-funded think-tank.
We got 'em, too. NED is one.
Pakistan’s nuclear push comes amid heightened tension with US intelligence and congressional officials over the security of the country’s nuclear weapons and materials.
When is the invasion scheduled?
The Washington Post reported in September 2013 that US intelligence officials had increased surveillance of Pakistan in part because of concerns that nuclear materials could fall into the hands of terrorists.
When is the false flag?
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki, asked if the United States was concerned about a sea-launched Pakistani weapon, said it was up to Pakistan to discuss its programs and plans. But, she said, ‘‘we continue to urge all nuclear-capable states to exercise restraint regarding nuclear and missile capabilities. We continue to encourage efforts to promote confidence-building and stability and discourage actions that might destabilize the region.’’
Unless it is US doing the destabilizing!
During a visit to Washington for consultations with the Obama administration in July, Tariq Fatemi, Sharif’s senior foreign policy adviser, said the government had ‘‘no intention of pursuing’’ sea-based nuclear weapons.
He lied to the Obama administration?
Good. It's about time they got a taste of their own medicine since they are lying to us so often.
It is unclear how much direct knowledge Sharif’s government has about the country’s nuclear weapons and missile-development programs, which are controlled by the powerful military’s Strategic Planning Directorate.
But the prime minister is the chairman of the country’s National Command Authority, a group of civilian and military officials who would decide whether to launch a nuclear weapon.
As you are left with the impression of those crazy Muslims might launch from my war-promoting propaganda pre$$.
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Already launched:
"In Pakistan, bomb kills eight, US drone kills 4" Associated Press September 29, 2014
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A bomb blast killed eight people Sunday in northwestern Pakistan as a US drone strike nearby killed four suspected militants, officials said.
The bombing struck a refugee camp housing internally displaced people on the outskirts of the city of Hangu, police officer Anwar Saeed Kundi said. The people there were displaced from a conflict in the nearby tribal region of Orakzai, he said.
He said the bomb was rigged to a motorcycle and killed eight people, including three children. It wounded 17 people, he said.
No one has claimed responsibility for the blast. Kundi said it was not clear as to why anyone would target the camp.
The hallmark of CIA handiwork.
Suspicion is likely to fall on the Pakistani Taliban, who have been waging a war on the state to impose their version of a harsh brand of Islamic law.
My Muslim-hating war paper says it was the Taliban, meaning they didn't do it.
Meanwhile, the US drone strike killed four suspected militants in the South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan along the Afghan border, intelligence officials and Taliban fighters said.
Yeah, meanwhile.
Those killed included two Arab militants and two of their local allies in a compound in the town of Wana, they said.
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Another launching:
"New polio cases in Pakistan edge closer to record" October 04, 2014
ISLAMABAD — All of the new cases were from the North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan, where it has been impossible to launch anti-polio campaigns because of threats from militants, said Rana Mohammad Safdar of the National Institute of Health in Islamabad....
Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio is endemic. The highly contagious virus is transmitted in unsanitary conditions but is easily fended off with a vaccine.
Who makes it?
However, efforts to eradicate it are hampered by the Taliban, who have banned immunizations and attacked polio vaccination teams across Pakistan. Militants accuse polio workers of acting as spies for the United States and claim the vaccine makes boys sterile.
Actually, they have good cause for concern as it looks more and more like these viruses have been created in laboratories.
About 60 polio workers or police escorting polio teams have been killed in Pakistan since 2012, said Safdar.
The militants’ push against vaccination grew after it was revealed that a Pakistani doctor, Shakil Afridi, offered a program of hepatitis vaccinations in the northwestern city of Abbottabad.
The program was a cover for his CIA-backed effort to obtain DNA samples from children at a local compound where Osama bin Laden was later killed during a 2011 raid by US Navy SEALs.
Related: Bin Laden Stories Show AmeriKan Media Not to be Believed
Why would we believe them regarding anything else then?
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It's only seven new cases?
"Blasts at market, bus station kill 10
QUETTA — A suicide bombing near a market in southwestern Pakistan killed five people and wounded at least 20 on Saturday, hours after a powerful bomb went off at a bus station in the country’s northwest, killing five and wounding three. The suicide bomber struck in Quetta, in the city’s Shi’ite-dominated neighborhood of Hazara Town. In Kohat, a remote-controlled bomb struck a moving bus (AP)."
Smells like CIA hijinks to me, and this next article is truly alarming:
"Kashmiris flee India-Pakistan violence; 9 dead" by Aijaz Hussain | Associated Press October 07, 2014
SRINAGAR, India — Tens of thousands of villagers fled their homes in Kashmir on Monday, as Indian and Pakistani troops bombarded each other with mortar shells over the border separating their portions of the disputed region.
Indian officials said the flare-up left five villagers, including one child, dead and 35 injured on the Indian side of the border. The Pakistani army reported four civilians killed on its side, including two children, and three injured.
Monday’s violence — one of the worst violations of a 2003 cease-fire between India and Pakistan — followed several meetings between the commanders of the two countries’ border forces.
Two of the three wars between the nations have been fought over their competing claims to Kashmir, though the 2003 cease-fire has largely held despite regular skirmishes.
Each side accused the other of firing first before dawn, and each said its troops had only retaliated.
Both sides said the violence was happening at several points along the border, including the designated frontier dividing Pakistan from the Indian-held Kashmir region of Jammu, as well as the United Nations-monitored Line of Control that slices through the mountainous region and separates an Indian-controlled portion and a Pakistan-administered territory.
Why are they even fighting over it?
‘‘First we heard gunshots,’’ said Akshit Kumar, a resident of Arnia, a town in Indian-controlled Kashmir. ‘‘But as the shelling started, that’s when we decided to flee.’’
Officials were evacuating tens of thousands of people from Arnia and nearby villages to underground bunkers and government shelters.
A man said he was sleeping on the lawn outside his home on the outskirts of Arnia when a mortar shell exploded at a nearby house, killing his neighbor and wounding five other people.
‘‘There is panic,’’ said Jammu’s top administrator, Shantmanu, who goes by one name. ‘‘We’re trying to give them a sense of security and temporary shelters.’’
Leaving would help, and why can't Kashmir get a vote?
Many saw the chaos as part of what has become a predictable cycle of violence in a region riven by decades-old animosities. A similar outburst of cross-border violence in August led about 15,000 villagers to flee temporarily.
Indian officials regularly accuse Pakistan of waging violence as a cover for separatist militants to infiltrate into the Indian side. Pakistan staunchly denies this, saying it offers only moral and diplomatic support to the militants and to Kashmiris who oppose Indian rule.
Meanwhile, the Indian army said troops killed three suspected militants in an early morning gun battle after spotting them moving through the forest in an uninhabited area called Tandhar, farther north along the Line of Control.
While the Line of Control is guarded by both the Indian and Pakistani armies, each country uses a separate paramilitary border force to guard the lower-altitude frontier, defined by coils of razor wire that snake across foothills marked by ancient villages, tangled bushes, and fields of rice and corn.
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Amazing how quickly the flooding was forgotten.
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
"Suspected US drone strikes kill 10 in Pakistan" by Zarar Khan | Associated Press October 08, 2014
ISLAMABAD — Two suspected US drone strikes on Taliban compounds in a Pakistani tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Tuesday killed at least 10 militants, officials said.
The missile strikes, just hours apart in the North Waziristan tribal region close to the Afghan border, bring the number of such strikes to three within 24 hours.
The latest strike hit a compound used by militants in Kundser village of the Datta Khel area in the afternoon, killing four militants, said two intelligence officials. The compound hit in Kundser was located closer to the Afghan border than the earlier one, they said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Earlier in the day, missiles fired from the drone hit the compound of a suspected Taliban commander in the village of Kund Ghar in the Shawal area of the region. Officials said six militants were killed and five others were wounded in that strike.
Drone-fired missiles also struck a compound in Mangrothi village in the Shawal area, killing four militants late Monday. Shawal, a mountainous area with thick forests, is an area where many militants are thought to be hiding, the official said.
The military launched a major offensive in June in North Waziristan, a rugged tribal area that has long been home to local and foreign militants, including Al Qaeda. Officials said the targeted militants had fled to Shawal from other parts of the region.
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And on go the drone wars.
