Posts Tagged ‘Nuclear Assets’
Full Text of Obama’s Af/Pak Speech at West Point
Following is the official transcript of President Obama's speech; it replaces the preliminary version, provided by NPR, posted earlier in this post. The graphic has been added by afpakwar.com. Listen to the Speech: White House | Office of the Press Secretary | 1 December 2009 Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way [...]
Following False Alarm, the Special U.S. Military Unit to Take Out Pakistan’s Nuclear Assets had Reached Dubai from Andrews AFB in Maryland, Earlier this Summer, Before Being Called Off
The New Yorker | By Seymour M. Hersh | 9 November 2009 ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY Defending the Arsenal In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe? In the tumultuous days leading up to the Pakistan Army’s ground offensive in the tribal area of South Waziristan, which began on October 17th, the Pakistani Taliban [...]
American Military Base in Islamabad
The foundations of the British Empire in India were laid by the East India Company securing permission to defend their factories by stationing troops in Bengal. In Pakistan the United States has received the green light for stationing marines (and much more) in their new billion dollar Embassy. The next time the Pakistan army tries to remove an [...]
India to be America’s Israel in South Asia
Pushing South Asia Toward the Brink Zia Mian | July 27, 2009 The contradictions and confusions in U.S. policy in South Asia were on full display during Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's recent visit to India. U.S. support for India, which centers on making money, selling weapons, and turning a blind eye to the country's nuclear weapons, is [...]
Save your homeland, Leave Iraq – Remembering Saddam’s 2006 Letter to the American People
As the Americans prepare to “leave” – in a manner of speaking -- Iraq, in order to replicate in Afghanistan and Pakistan the mess they made of Iraq, it is instructive to re-read Saddam's letter to the American people , the final lines of which are reproduced below: Final lines (“Save your homeland, , and leave Iraq. Peace! God is [...]
Top Secret US Senate Hearing on Security of Pakistan’s Nuclear Program on 3 June 2009
According to the calendar of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, at 11:00 am on Wednesday 3 June 2009, there will be a "CLOSED / TOP SECRET / CODEWORD" Hearing on the "Security of Pakistan's Nuclear Program" under the chairmanship of Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts). The Washington Post clarifies that "Top Secret /Codeword" refers [...]
Pakistan to US: You secure your weapons, We’ll secure ours!
According to Dan Rivers of CNN, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbasof the Pakistan Army has said that: "many of the Taliban's arms are coming across the border from Afghanistan." When Rivers asked him "if that includes NATO weapons, as suggested in recent reports," he agreed. According to Rivers, "He says Washington is too focused on the safety of Pakistan's [...]
New Greater Balochistan Map
A May 2009 article, mainly on Gwadar, by Robert D. Kaplan, Pakistan's Fatal Shore, in The Atlantic, that is referenced on Baloch separatist websites (see here, for example), provides a map of "Greater Balochistan" that is probably reflective of the thinking of the "Balkanise Pakistan" lobby that is increasingly coming out into the [...]
Pakistan “More Pressing Threat than Iran” — Ehud Barak
Also, the New York Times spins Adm. Mullen's testimony in a piece, on Pakistan's nuclear weapons, that borders on yellow journalism. According to the Jerusalem Post of 14 May 2009, Israel's Deputy Prime Minister, Defence Minister, and leader of the Labour Party, Ehud Barak, asserted in a recent briefing to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and [...]
American Likudniks Provide Detailed Options to Israel for Strike on Iran
By enhancing the credibility of a fantastic threat, Netanyahu and his American Likudniks are creating a bargaining chip out of thin air, that Israel will "concede" in return for little or no concession on the two-state solution, that Americans are expected to press on them. Called "the mother of all neo-con institutions," the Center for [...]
