11-05-2007, 01:27 PM
Paki N-bomb may fall into hands of terrorists
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Nuclear-armed Pakistan is teetering on the verge of chaos after the imposition of emergency and US officials fear that the result could be every American's nightmare -- nuclear material or know-how, or even a nuclear bomb, falling into the hands of terrorists.
"If you were to look around the world for where al-Qaeda is going to find its bomb, it's right in their backyard," Bruce Riedel, the former senior director for South Asia on the National Security Council, was quoted as saying by Newsweek.
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The dilemma facing the "democracy crusader" President Bush, Newsweek says, is that Washington is left not many friends to call in <b>Pakistan -- "perhaps the number one generator of terrorism in the world"</b> -- after propping up President Pervez Musharraf for six years.
"There is perhaps no place on earth that more powerfully validates Bush's idea that democracy can be a cure for terrorism than Pakistan. And there is perhaps no place on earth that so powerfully exposes his occasional hypocrisy in failing to push for that policy," the magazine says.
Commenting on Musharraf's decision to declare a state of emergency shortly before the justices of the Pakistan Supreme Court were expected to rule that his presidency was illegal, Newsweek says US officials did the dance they always perform when it comes to his anti-democratic actions: They disapproved but expressed hope that Musharraf would see the light.
Conceding that Musharraf has been a firm "if uneven ally" against terrorism, the news magazine says, "all of this double talk illustrates the Faustian bargain that the United States has struck with Pakistan in the war on terror."
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<b>Washington was quite noticeably silent on this point, it said, adding Bhutto could not even get a hearing at the White House, belying Bush's second-term commitment "to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture."</b>
<b>The monster that Musharraf nurtured to keep himself in office is now threatening him personally,</b> the magazine says, adding al-Qaeda elements that have found increasing support in areas of Pakistan-controlled by Islamists have tried to assassinate him twice.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->November 5
Nuclear-armed Pakistan is teetering on the verge of chaos after the imposition of emergency and US officials fear that the result could be every American's nightmare -- nuclear material or know-how, or even a nuclear bomb, falling into the hands of terrorists.
"If you were to look around the world for where al-Qaeda is going to find its bomb, it's right in their backyard," Bruce Riedel, the former senior director for South Asia on the National Security Council, was quoted as saying by Newsweek.
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The dilemma facing the "democracy crusader" President Bush, Newsweek says, is that Washington is left not many friends to call in <b>Pakistan -- "perhaps the number one generator of terrorism in the world"</b> -- after propping up President Pervez Musharraf for six years.
"There is perhaps no place on earth that more powerfully validates Bush's idea that democracy can be a cure for terrorism than Pakistan. And there is perhaps no place on earth that so powerfully exposes his occasional hypocrisy in failing to push for that policy," the magazine says.
Commenting on Musharraf's decision to declare a state of emergency shortly before the justices of the Pakistan Supreme Court were expected to rule that his presidency was illegal, Newsweek says US officials did the dance they always perform when it comes to his anti-democratic actions: They disapproved but expressed hope that Musharraf would see the light.
Conceding that Musharraf has been a firm "if uneven ally" against terrorism, the news magazine says, "all of this double talk illustrates the Faustian bargain that the United States has struck with Pakistan in the war on terror."
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<b>Washington was quite noticeably silent on this point, it said, adding Bhutto could not even get a hearing at the White House, belying Bush's second-term commitment "to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture."</b>
<b>The monster that Musharraf nurtured to keep himself in office is now threatening him personally,</b> the magazine says, adding al-Qaeda elements that have found increasing support in areas of Pakistan-controlled by Islamists have tried to assassinate him twice.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->