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| India-Pakistan |
| Putin expresses concern at Pak nukes’ fate |
| 2002-11-22 |
| Expressing grave concern at the fate of Pakistani nuclear weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin today said these could fall into the hands of terrorists. "Pakistan has mass destruction weapons, and we don't have any confidence that they will not fall into evil hands," he said at a joint press meet with US President George W Bush in the Catherine's Palace of the imperial summer retreat near St Petersburg. Neither do we. Lauding President Pervez Musharraf for bringing stability in Pakistan, Putin said "We know what Musharraf is doing for the stability in the country and we back him in this". Grabbing control of government and never letting go is a old Russian tradition, too. Putin said the international community need to keep an eye on Islamabad to make sure it is not supporting terrorists. Putting Prevez on notice. "We should not forget about the safety of mass destruction weapons in those countries where they could fall into the hands of terrorists," he added. "We know that Osama bin Laden is hiding somewhere between Pakistan and Afghanistan," he said. Either there or Saudi. The 'nightmarish scenario' of the Pakistani nuclear weapons falling into the hands of Islamic extremists was one of the issues discussed at the US-Russian informal summit in St Petersburg today, sources told PTI. Prevez must not like all this attention, I'll wager. In the context of the discussion on global anti-terror combat Putin had strongly raised this issue with President Bush, they said. "We should not leave a chance to those involved in terrorism or back terrorists. We also can not forget about those who finance extremist activities," he said. And those would be who, Vlad? "We should not forget that out of 19 (Sept 11) attackers in America 16 were Saudi Arabians," Putin said taking a dig at Saudi Arabia, allegedly financing Islamic extremists in Chechnya and other Muslim-dominated Russian regions. He said the S-word! I looked in all the U.S. news outlets and all they mention of this meeting is Putin telling Bush to follow the U.N. resolution and why haven't you found Bin Laden. No mention of Saudi or Pak. Wonder why that is, could it be, oh, I don't know, Media Bias? |
| Posted by:Steve |