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To: JPR who wrote (12186)	6/6/2002 12:30:33 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

The idea of securing the nuclear assets of pakistan by US was expressed by me couple of months ago on this thread. So? Someone else equally stupid comes along and agrees with you. So what?!

To: JPR who wrote (12186)	6/6/2002 1:03:48 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

JPR, there have been several guests/military consultants who have appeared on shows on CNN, Fox news etc. over the past few days who have painted that scenario. It is not my making. The world is concerned that Musharraf refuses to sign on to a "no first strike policy" thereby having these folks term it a "nuclear blackmail" They have also opined that it is significant that Rumsfeld and not Colin Powell is being despatched by Bush. This act of Bush is prompting analysts to say that the US is going to warn Pakistan of military action to secure their nuclear arsenal and that he is just going to give Musharraf a taste of the US's military plans. Bush is very dissatisfied that Musharraf has, as an ally, has abandoned US and instead is concentrating on his agenda in Kashmir. He has pissed off the US by foisting himself with a phony referendum.. And if that was not enough, he has now moved his troops away from the border with Afghanistan. The last time Pakistan received such a scolding from the US was before the fall of Kabul. The US military intelligence indicated the ISI support to the Taliban regime in Kabul would help the Taliban put up a stiff military resistance to the advancing Special Forces of the US and the troops of the Northern alliance. To prevent loss of life, the US gave an ultimatum to Musharraf to withdraw ISI support to Taliban.. And the moment they did that, we all saw Kabul fall like a pack of cards with civilians walking into the streets of Kabul and rejoicing. So it was the ISI that caused all the woes imposed by the Taliban. And now it is the same Musharraf who is thumbing his nose at the world by refusing to sign onto a "no first strike" nuclear policy. Let us not forget the recently concluded joint US-India military exercises in India. I don't think it was done for pur entertainment value considering that India and the US have not been all that close militarily for the past 20 years. And I would also like to point out the joint India-US military exercises in early this year in the mountainous and frozen slopes of Alaska, a terrain similar to the region in Kashmir. Read it all here as I would like to provide the links in support of my views. state.gov news.bbc.co.uk asia.cnn.com (talks about the exercise in Alaska also)