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P44 escreveu:segundo as "más linguas" tropas especiais dos EUA já estarão á algum tempo no Paquistão preparando-se para deitar as mãos aos Nukes caso o poder caia na mão dos mais fundamentalistas...

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P44 escreveu:segundo as "más linguas" tropas especiais dos EUA já estarão á algum tempo no Paquistão preparando-se para deitar as mãos aos Nukes caso o poder caia na mão dos mais fundamentalistas...

Nossa, isso é possivel?

Porque pelo que eu sei, o exercito paquistanês é forte.

US has special crack squad in place to secure Pak nukes at short notice
May 15th, 2009 - 12:58 pm ICT by ANI Tell a Friend -

Taliban London, May 15 (ANI): The United States has in place a detailed emergency plan to secure Pakistan’s mobile arsenal of nuclear warheads, in case the nukes are in danger of falling into the hands of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups.

According to the US intelligence sources, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the super-secret commando unit headquartered at Fort Bragg, has been given orders to remain prepared for action at short notice.

The JSOC, the US army’s chief terrorists hunting squad, is already present in the region and is operating along the western Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

“We have plans to secure them ourselves if things get out of hand. That is a big secondary mission for JSOC in Afghanistan,” a U.S. intelligence source, deployed in Afghanistan, said.

“Small units could seize them, disable them and then centralize them in a secure location,” he added.

For the first time in 2004, a secret Defense Intelligence Agency document revealed that Pakistan has a nuclear arsenal of 35 weapons.

The document further said that Islamabad was planning to double the number of the nuclear weapons by 2020.

The JSOC may be an elite group of extensively trained commandos, but they too may have to face certain challenges securing the nukes.

Securing the nuclear arsenal in Pakistan is particularly difficult, because the military has established its missiles on Soviet-style mobile launchers and rail lines.

Even though the US intelligence agencies are using satellite photos and communication intercepts constantly to monitor their whereabouts, it is feared that the rogue elements inside Pakistan’s military and intelligence service could quickly side with the extremists and make JSOC’s mission more difficult. (ANI)

US Troops to Protect Pakistan Nukes in case of ISI Takeover


The US army is training a crack unit to seal off and snatch back Pakistani nuclear weapons in the event that militants, possibly from inside the country’s security apparatus, get their hands on a nuclear device or materials that could make one.

The specialised unit would be charged with recovering the nuclear materials and securing them.

The move follows growing anti-Americanism in Pakis More..tan’s military, a series of attacks on sensitive installations over the past two years, several of which housed nuclear facilities, and rising tension that has seen a series of official complaints by US authorities to Islamabad in the past fortnight.

“What you have in Pakistan is nuclear weapons mixed with the highest density of extremists in the world, so we have a right to be concerned,” said Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former CIA officer who used to run the US energy department’s intelligence unit. “There have been attacks on army bases which stored nuclear weapons and there have been breaches and infiltrations by terrorists into military facilities.”

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Professor Shaun Gregory, director of the Pakistan security research unit at Bradford University, has tracked a number of attempted security breaches since 2007. “The terrorists are at the gates,” he warned.

In a counterterrorism journal, published by America’s West Point military academy, he documented three incidents. The first was an attack in November 2007 at Sargodha in Punjab, where nuclearcapable F-16 jet aircraft are thought to be stationed. The following month a suicide bomber struck at Pakistan’s nuclear airbase at Kamra in Attock district. In August 2008 a group of suicide bombers blew up the gates to a weapons complex at the Wah cantonment in Punjab, believed to be one of Pakistan’s nuclear warhead assembly plants. The attack left 63 people dead.

A further attack followed at Kamra last October. Pakistan denies that the base still has a nuclear role, but Gregory believes it does. A six-man suicide team was arrested in Sargodha last August.

Fears that militants could penetrate a nuclear facility intensified after a brazen attack on army headquarters in Rawalpindi in October when 10 gunmen wearing army uniforms got inside and laid siege for 22 hours. Last month there was an attack on the naval command centre in Islamabad.

Pakistani police said five Americans from Washington who were arrested in Pakistan last month after trying to join the Taliban were carrying a map of Chashma Barrage, a complex in Punjab that includes a nuclear power facility.

The Al-Qaeda leadership has made no secret of its desire to get its hands on weapons for a “nuclear 9/11”.

“I have no doubt they are hell-bent on acquiring this,” said Mowatt-Larssen. “These guys are thinking of nuclear at the highest level and are approaching it in increasingly professional ways.”

Nuclear experts and US officials say the biggest fear is of an inside job amid growing anti-American feeling in Pakistan. Last year 3,021 Pakistanis were killed in terrorist attacks, more than in Afghanistan, yet polls suggest Pakistanis consider the United States to be a greater threat than the Taliban.

“You have 8,000-12,000 [people] in Pakistan with some type of role in nuclear missiles — whether as part of an assembly team or security,” said Gregory. “It’s a very large number and there is a real possibility that among those people are sympathisers of terrorist or jihadist groups who may facilitate some kind of attack.”

Pakistan is thought to possess about 80 nuclear warheads. Although the weapons are well guarded, the fear is that materials or processes to enrich uranium could fall into the wrong hands.

“All it needs is someone in Pakistan within the nuclear establishment and in a position of key access to become radicalised,” said MowattLarssen. “This is not just theoretical. It did happen — Pakistan has had inside problems before.”

Bashir Mahmood, the former head of Pakistan’s plutonium reactor, formed the Islamic charity Ummah Tameer-e-Nau in March 2000 after resigning from the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission. He was arrested in Islamabad on October 23, 2001, with his associate Abdul Majeed for alleged links to Osama Bin Laden.

Pakistan’s military leadership, which controls the nuclear programme, has always bristled at the suggestion that its nuclear facilities are at risk. The generals insist that storing components in different sites keeps them secure.

US officials refused to speak on the record about American safety plans, well aware of how this would be seen in Islamabad. However, one official admitted that the United States does not know where all of Pakistan’s storage sites are located. “Don’t assume the US knows everything,” he said.

Although Washington has provided $100m worth of technical assistance to Islamabad under its nuclear protection programme, US personnel have been denied access to most Pakistani nuclear sites.

In the past fortnight the US has made unprecedented formal protests to Pakistan’s national security apparatus, warning it about fanning virulent anti-American sentiment in the media.

Concerns about hostility towards America within elements of the Pakistani armed forces first surfaced in 2007. At a meeting of military commanders staged at Kurram, on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, a Pakistani major drew his pistol and shot an American. The incident was hushed up as a gunfight.

P44 escreveu: já li num jornal português há algum tempo, não guardei o artigo mas pode ser que haja algo na net. E tb já vi na TV, não me lembro em que canal.

US has special crack squad in place to secure Pak nukes at short notice
May 15th, 2009 - 12:58 pm ICT by ANI Tell a Friend -

Taliban London, May 15 (ANI): The United States has in place a detailed emergency plan to secure Pakistan’s mobile arsenal of nuclear warheads, in case the nukes are in danger of falling into the hands of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups.

US Troops to Protect Pakistan Nukes in case of ISI Takeover

The US army is training a crack unit to seal off and snatch back Pakistani nuclear weapons in the event that militants, possibly from inside the country’s security apparatus, get their hands on a nuclear device or materials that could make one.