Our good friends, the Pakistanis, who are about one coup away from becoming a virulently anti-US Islamofascist state have just successfully launched a short-range nuclear-capable ICBM.
The Pakistani military says it successfully test-fired a nuclear capable ballistic missile Monday.
A military statement said the surface-to-surface Ghaznavi missile of the Hatf series has a range of 290 kilometers. It said the test-firing was a part of a planned series of tests designed to further refine Pakistan's missile systems.
Knowing that they sell technology to the highest bidder, especially if they are also Islamic, it's not much comfort to know that these weapons systems exist in such an unstable country. I wonder if Osama bin Forgotten is just waiting for the right moment to make a political move into Pakistan and get assets he'd never have access to otherwise. Gee, if we had an actual National Security Team, they might have an answer to that.
posted by Jo Fish on 11.29.04 at 12:48 PM
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Also in the papers over the weekend: The Pakistan army, stating that much of the area between Pakistan and Afghanistan is now stable, has begun withdrawing its forces from there.
So much for rousting out OBL and his pals. Kind of makes some (but not Dear Leader) wonder what kind of accommodations have been put in place between the nuclear - missiled -up Pakistan and OBL.
Move along folks, nothing to see here . . .
posted by: fbg46 on 11.29.04 at 01:27 PM [permalink]
