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- 07 Jan 2004 00:12
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 25 Dec 2003
- Replies: 332
- Views: 126636
Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 25 Dec 2003
Awesome. Actually, about a week after that, there is an article that says, essentially: "Government withdraws ad.." I remember that the gist was that someone in the bureaucracy posted the ad in the papers to expose what was going on. Mentioned something about Pakistan poor country onlee - ...
- 06 Jan 2004 21:04
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 25 Dec 2003
- Replies: 332
- Views: 126636
Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 25 Dec 2003
jrjr: Its interesting that the Fake HC should send that letter - and may offer an opportunity. Somewhere on my HD is an article from Paki newspapers circa 2000 where the GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN published an advertisement in all the newspapers offering nuclear components for sale. Do u remember this? ...
- 06 Jan 2004 08:15
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 25 Dec 2003
- Replies: 332
- Views: 126636
Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 25 Dec 2003
I think the Pakis are right. Since their weapons didn't work, why does anyone suppose that they REALLY transferred effective weapon technology to anyone?
- 05 Jan 2004 20:08
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 25 Dec 2003
- Replies: 332
- Views: 126636
Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 25 Dec 2003
Wow! Lets see the reasoning here: In the mid-1980s , they clandestinely negotiated the purchase of about 50 to 60 Chinese CSS-2 missiles. The Chinese and Saudis were able to complete the deal before American intelligence was wise to the relationship. The Saudis paid handsomely, with about $3 billion...
- 05 Jan 2004 00:05
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 25 Dec 2003
- Replies: 332
- Views: 126636
Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 25 Dec 2003
At some propitious time in the future, India I hope will "open" conducted Package Tours of "all" :roll: nook-e-leer facilities. With suitable fanfare about "safeguards". And pay some baksheesh along with the donations to the NMD program. My sense is that this is what Du...
- 04 Jan 2004 16:28
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Profiles in Heroism: Archive
- Replies: 434
- Views: 198685
Re: Profiles in Heroism: Archive
Glad to see this thread moved to this forum. Hope it stays up long enough to collect a "critical mass" for further steps. Thanks
- 04 Jan 2004 04:19
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Profiles in Heroism: Archive
- Replies: 434
- Views: 198685
Re: Profiles in Heroism: Archive
Here is another kind of courage - equally awesome. These are people who live every moment knowing that they are unarmed and vulnerable, but do their jobs as citizens regardless. NDTV.com, Sep. 28, 2003. Militants kill four members of a family in Udhampur “A group of four militants came to the house ...
- 04 Jan 2004 03:55
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Profiles in Heroism: Archive
- Replies: 434
- Views: 198685
Re: Profiles in Heroism: Archive
Thanks, shishir. We need many, many more such stories to get to even a minimally representative sample of what keeps the nation free and the savages penned in their pigsty.
- 03 Jan 2004 18:40
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Profiles in Heroism: Archive
- Replies: 434
- Views: 198685
Profiles in Heroism: Archive
Per discussion below, we would like to use this thread to start archiving such material. Posted by arindam (Member # 5094) on 03 January 2004, 06:14 AM: Cross-posting .... http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/jan/03jk1.htm Lieutenant Triveni Singh: A real life hero Anil Bhat | January 03, 2004 17:10 IST W...
- 02 Jan 2004 17:54
- Forum: Military Exercises Archive
- Topic: Operation Parakram: An Analysis
- Replies: 163
- Views: 113340
Re: Operation Parakram: An Analysis
I have to reject that theory, because there is no way that even the mighty US of A can ensure that such things can be kept "safe" in a place where EVERYONE is against the US. It would be suicidal of the Americans to try that option - and anyway the cost of such "security" would b...
- 02 Jan 2004 16:07
- Forum: Military Exercises Archive
- Topic: Operation Parakram: An Analysis
- Replies: 163
- Views: 113340
Re: Operation Parakram: An Analysis
Manne: Everything that I see from CL (cuckoo-land) is consistent with the above. "1. Would you then say that the very recent reports in Washington Post (or some such newspaper) - about security experts advising Dubya to secure the nukes and subsequent reports saying that it was a tough job as U...
- 02 Jan 2004 08:19
- Forum: Military Exercises Archive
- Topic: Operation Parakram: An Analysis
- Replies: 163
- Views: 113340
Re: Operation Parakram: An Analysis
Amarnath: The reality is that there HAS to be a tough condition imposed on India, accompanying the TSP nook-noodity. Read the latest from Dubya and you'll see it clearly: From ABC News: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1019418.htm Bush says Pakistan nukes are secure US President George W Bush s...
- 01 Jan 2004 22:53
- Forum: Military Exercises Archive
- Topic: Operation Parakram: An Analysis
- Replies: 163
- Views: 113340
Re: Operation Parakram: An Analysis
blah-blah-blah. Simple truth: India decided to go to war. mush/mushlets made one too many panicked threats to use nookulear weapons "even if there was economic blockade against Karachi". US/PRC got together and decided that the risk of nuclear war was too high, and that there was only one ...
- 24 Nov 2003 17:36
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Addressing Self Determination
- Replies: 40
- Views: 48920
Re: Addressing Self Determination
Calvin: One last post on the Times of India claim that "Pakistan gets its Dream UN Resolution". Arun says it: shows how dorky the Indian media is! The Times of India failed to report that the resolution was "passed" with 88 in favor, 3 against, 64 abstaining, and 36 absent. The U...
- 24 Nov 2003 06:11
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Addressing Self Determination
- Replies: 40
- Views: 48920
Re: Addressing Self Determination
Wonderful logic indeed. According to International law Kashmir is disputed territory Which International law is that, please? Just because some jackass "disputes" something, one does not feel any obligation to "negotiate" it. Last I checked, J&K was very much part of India. T...
- 23 Nov 2003 19:14
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Addressing Self Determination
- Replies: 40
- Views: 48920
Re: Addressing Self Determination
Interesting Petition. In fact this provides a valuable point of reference, in the light of the "Jefferson Davis" comment made by the US House Subcommittee Chair to characterize The Hon Rep. "Mullah Omar" Dana's comments supporting the secession of Hawaii from the USA. Point is, 1...
- 22 Nov 2003 22:31
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Addressing Self Determination
- Replies: 40
- Views: 48920
Re: Addressing Self Determination
Yes, sounds like the US, UK and 98 other nations abstained / ignored TSP. :rotfl: TSP and their terrorist buddies voted FOR, and India made the point very clearly that we don't side with the Pakis. This should go in "Next Act of the Road Runner Show". YET another complex Paki effort, all l...
- 22 Nov 2003 21:02
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Addressing Self Determination
- Replies: 40
- Views: 48920
Re: Addressing Self Determination
BTW, a) What is the TSP crowing about in the UN resolution? b) Which way did Dupleecity and UQ vote? If THEY can support that resolution, India should laugh it off too. (not support it, just laugh it off with a statement like: Instead of bringing UN Resolutions, Pakistan could consider actually doin...
- 22 Nov 2003 20:42
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Addressing Self Determination
- Replies: 40
- Views: 48920
Re: Addressing Self Determination
Pls. remember to include the Demand for Self-Determination of the Southern Confederacy - otherwise known as YOD (Yankee-Occupied-Dixiestan). First there was the "Shock-n-Awe" where the cities were pulverized and the remnants burned to the ground, and untold atrocities visited upon the civi...
- 01 Nov 2003 07:09
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 14 Jan 2003
- Replies: 340
- Views: 92607
Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 14 Jan 2003
I once had the privilege of associating closely with a team of specially-selected Saudi Air Force personnel. 6 of them. Very interesting team composition and dynamics. Leader was as materialistic and fun-loving as they get - went around proposing to every skirt in sight to come with him to his harem...
- 01 Nov 2003 03:48
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 14 Jan 2003
- Replies: 340
- Views: 92607
Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 14 Jan 2003
In a good cause. We need some good BRFi analysis and discussion about this report: http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/25582.pdf Far be it from me to bias the reader, but let me start by stating that someone who read it called it "garbage" and the author apparently didn't like that...
- 30 Oct 2003 08:07
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 14 Jan 2003
- Replies: 340
- Views: 92607
Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 14 Jan 2003
I actually wonder - but Yossef Bodansky doesn't write disinfo. Wasn't he the first to write a book on bin Laden? The alternative explanation here is that the Paki nuclear weapons have been in KSA for quite a long time - WITH US APPROVAL. All this brings back the comment of General Flathead in late J...
- 29 Oct 2003 18:34
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 14 Jan 2003
- Replies: 340
- Views: 92607
Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 14 Jan 2003
We need to start phrasing this as the membership of Pakistan in BOTH Coalitions in the War About Terrorism. US-UK-TSP in "GOAT" (Global Offensive About Terror) (changed from "against" to accomodate Paki sensibilities) TSP-KSA-Libya-NoK-PRC in "CoT" "Crescent of Ter...
- 29 Oct 2003 07:26
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 14 Jan 2003
- Replies: 340
- Views: 92607
Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 14 Jan 2003
From a Paki terrorist nutcase's webpage: (obviously this was not written by him). " Nuclear Program Chronology Detailed Chronology Of Pakistani Nuclear Program As of Nuclear Tests: 1965: Pakistani nuclear research reactor at Parr, Rawalpindi, starts functioning. 1968: Nonproliferation Treaty co...
- 09 Sep 2003 20:06
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
- Replies: 224
- Views: 80367
Re: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
nuclear showdown between India and Pakistan was a thing of the past
Hark! Repent! Ye UnBelievers! The Proof Hath Arrived!
- 01 Sep 2003 22:42
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
- Replies: 224
- Views: 80367
Re: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
http://dailynews.att.net Oh, no! Tough-Guy Actor Charles Bronson Dies at 81 Updated 1:35 PM ET September 1, 2003 By Arthur Spiegelman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Coal miner turned tough-guy actor Charles Bronson, a star of more than 60 films including the popular "Death Wish" series in which ...
- 01 Sep 2003 19:24
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
- Replies: 224
- Views: 80367
Re: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
arindam: That will be YET another of the "Top Five of the Inner Circle of Al Qaeda" to join the 600-odd other Top Five members already there. In alphabetical order: Aamir bin Asinine Al Binori Abdul bin Kabul Al Kindergarteni Abbas bin Nitwit Al Peshawari ..... et al. I note that Al Zubeid...
- 01 Sep 2003 18:29
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
- Replies: 224
- Views: 80367
Re: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
Now you are asking the right question. Search for "Paul Thompson" on the internet.why has Mehmood 'Mustafa' Ahmed been spared
- 01 Sep 2003 18:24
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
- Replies: 224
- Views: 80367
Re: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
why would the US allow TSP to run riot anywhere else other than India? A tough one. Then again, if we were not desis, we would not ask why they allow TSP to run riot in India, would we? If we were Russian, we would ask: "Why is the US allowing the *****s to run riot in Russia?" and conclu...
- 01 Sep 2003 07:51
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
- Replies: 224
- Views: 80367
Re: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
Johann and sunil: I would think that bin Laden and Al Juwahiri are calm and deliberate enough to have thought several moves ahead and beyond 9/11. So, I believe, do you think. And that is the only basis I see for the premise of this thread. What else have they put in place? Yes, they have conducted ...
- 01 Sep 2003 01:52
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
- Replies: 224
- Views: 80367
Re: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
Yes, Mudy. Depend on these wanna-be Prezs to come up with "solutions" 180 deg. out of phase with reality. Sen. Kerry hasn't really impressed in the "grey matter" dept. so far, IMHO. Whenever he comes out to speak for the Dems, the Dem rating goes down another few points. Not much...
- 01 Sep 2003 00:06
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
- Replies: 224
- Views: 80367
Re: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
kgoan: With the Strategic Depth of A'Stan gone, and matters not going well on the Eastern border either, surely the Caliph Mush would wish to shift his winter capital to sunny Riyadh. All plausible there, with the K of KSA on his deathbed (BTW, seems to have been there an inordinately long time..) B...
- 31 Aug 2003 23:37
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
- Replies: 224
- Views: 80367
Re: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
Gee! Reading kgoan, sunil and Johann gives new meaning to the term "misspent youth".
Can u guys write equally well about Test Cricket, I wonder??? (or, in kgoan's case, sync, swimming)?
TSJ:
Can u guys write equally well about Test Cricket, I wonder??? (or, in kgoan's case, sync, swimming)?
TSJ:
No commentAyatolla Baptistola
- 31 Aug 2003 22:19
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
- Replies: 224
- Views: 80367
Re: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
Also, TSJ, no one is saying that the CIA killed any of those 3 Saudis/Pakis. The Crescent of Terror model (copyright n^3) is Saudi funding, Paki military logistics and planning, and Al Qaeda religious cra* to hire gullible suckers to send as jehadis. Easy enough to believe that they killed these guy...
- 31 Aug 2003 22:13
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
- Replies: 224
- Views: 80367
Re: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
sunil: Al Zubeidah was a mid-level recruiter / travel agent / logistics fixer. It does make some sense that he would know a couple of useful phone numbers to call to get problems with embassies/visas etc. fixed, and money sent to the right places. He was ultimately the link to the recruit pool. Prob...
- 31 Aug 2003 22:02
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
- Replies: 224
- Views: 80367
Re: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
sunil's hypothesis is that the GOTUS has worked a deal with the TSP junta, similar to what the Saudis are said to have worked with Bin Laden. Keep terrorism (at least WMD) out of the CONUS and we won't level Pakistan Come to think of it, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, Iraq, Thailand, Afghanist...
- 31 Aug 2003 10:06
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
- Replies: 224
- Views: 80367
Re: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
That's interesting. I wonder how the US ever got entangled with Yemen, anyway. Could it be, just could it be, that Yemen was dragged in by the US' wonderful ally, UQ, to extract UQ from whatever mess was created in Aden? Yes, the USS Cole was attacked in Aden harbour, but was that before or after sa...
- 31 Aug 2003 07:41
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
- Replies: 224
- Views: 80367
Re: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
Like TSJ, I too have a midnight deadline, and I am reduced to stretching logic enough to ask "midnight where"? and arguing for "Hawaii" as answer. So let me just toss this one grenade to keep sunil busy, and get back maybe noon tomorrow when I wake up after the present scramble. ...
- 30 Aug 2003 23:23
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
- Replies: 224
- Views: 80367
Re: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
L Dev: I doubt if anyone in the US administration believes anything Mush says. In fact their statements about Pakistan are pretty openly contemptuous (e.g., the "400%"). And that's the political leadership. People assigned to tasks like "find out how many nukes Pakistan has, and where...
- 30 Aug 2003 22:38
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
- Replies: 224
- Views: 80367
Re: Pakistani Nuclear Thresholds
The one interpretation I am willing to state of the US-TSP blackmail equation (subject to change w/o notice since I am a 4-yr-old) is that: 1. The US has removed the nukes - but promised Mush that he would live if he peacefully permitted the removal of weapons. 2. He can be removed any time - hence ...