Fears of Islamist bomb grow
Photo: Pakistan tests bomb
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Concerns about http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2829 technology falling into the hands of jihadi militants have increased with the news that two technicians with the Pakistani nuclear program have been kidnapped by masked gunmen in the bandit country along the border with Afghanistan. Tariq Azizuddin, Pakistan’s ambassador to Afghanistan also went missing on the same day. “The technicians were going for some geological survey in the area when they were kidnapped at gunpoint along with their driver,” a senior police official told Reuters.
All of the disappearances occured in the same geographical area, where Islamist groups opposed to the Pervez Musharraf government have launched successful http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3054 two army installations, killing government troops and capturing an estimated 200 soldiers. The Pakistani government has not said how much the kidnapped technicians, who apparently worked on Pakistan’s civil nuclear energy program, know about nuclear weapons, but the incident highlights yet again the danger of treating Third World nations as “equals” in the international system, especially when “leading” nations like the United States don’t seem to know what they are doing.
The Pakistani nuclear weapons program was developed by, among others, the slain leader Benazir http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2759 and her father (also slain, hanged for murder), with the mute complicity of the United States, anxious to shore up Pakistan as a Cold War counterweight to the Soviet Union and India.
While nukes in the hands of open Islamists is worse, nukes in the hands of Pakistan is only marginally better. Pakistan’s army has the word “jihad” in its motto, and its nuclear weapons have charming names like Ghauri, Babur and Abdali, called after historical Muslim conquerors who carried out jihad against India. In case the whole jihad thing remains unclear, another Pakistani weapon appellation is the Hatf, the name of the sword wielded by Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
The Pakistani nuclear weapons program may well spark a regional war, as neighboring rival India, already long provoked by Pakistan, fears the instability that grows worse daily to the north. The Indian population is already at fever pitch, taking out its pent up aggression on http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2837 and storming disputed areas in Nepal. UK diplomat Lord Owen has openly admitted that the West has lost Afghanistan, and the eventual meltdown of the Kabul regime will have repercussions across South Asia.
Whites also should be worried about an “Islamist bomb,” as Pakistani immigrant populations are heavily involved in the European jihadi network, http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2770 in the UK. Nuclear material in the hands of Islamists could ruin whole swathes of Europe for human occupation for millenia, which is why what happens in Pakistan has repercussions for us all as a people.