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2010-04-23 India-Pakistan

'Pak may slip over N-weapons to Taliban for use against India'

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Posted by john frum 2010-04-23 08:15|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 if these Idiots actualy detonte a nuke in India, they will vanish from the face of the earth.
I don't want the Indians hurt, but in the same thought this would END Pakistan, once and for all.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-04-23 09:18|| 2010-04-23 09:18|| Front Page Top

#2 I wouldn't be surprised if they would take the nuke and use it to destroy The Great Satan instead.

Posted by gorb 2010-04-23 09:39|| 2010-04-23 09:39|| Front Page Top

#3 And meanwhile the X-37B is overhead sprinkling powdered pork rinds over the entire ME. They're all unclean now...

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-04-23 09:42|| 2010-04-23 09:42|| Front Page Top

#4 yeah, plausible deniability for the Paks....right.

a nation of soon-to-be martyrs

Posted by Frank G 2010-04-23 09:55|| 2010-04-23 09:55|| Front Page Top

#5 You mean missiles are not the sole delivery system? Somebody get george clooney on the line!

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-04-23 10:57|| 2010-04-23 10:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Plausible deniability, even paper-thin, would be enough for the UN Community to not actually do anything.

And I think AL-Q would rather strike the USA. India would strike back - OBumbles would rather simply bow deeper. He probably wouldn't get away with it but it'll give the U.N. and the media enough time to rush in with excuses.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-04-23 13:19|| 2010-04-23 13:19|| Front Page Top

#7 It's Bush's fault...
After 911 Pashtunistan should have become a radioactive slag heap!
End of story.

Posted by 3dc 2010-04-23 13:54|| 2010-04-23 13:54|| Front Page Top

#8 And I think AL-Q would rather strike the USA. India would strike back - OBumbles would rather simply bow deeper.

I don't know, CrazyFool... India hasn't done anything except end negotiations on this'n'that the last several times the ISI sponsored major terror attacks -- Mumbai, anyone?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-23 14:26|| 2010-04-23 14:26|| Front Page Top

#9 You mean missiles are not the sole delivery system? Somebody get george clooney on the line!

Yes, but a nuke will "only" do a quarter the damage if it's a ground burst as compared with an air burst, so I guess they don't have much to worry about.

Posted by gorb 2010-04-23 15:40|| 2010-04-23 15:40|| Front Page Top

#10 The Pakistani jihadists would use any such weapon against the US rather than India. They believe that the Hindus are cowards and will be enslaved anyway.

Posted by john frum 2010-04-23 16:56|| 2010-04-23 16:56|| Front Page Top

#11 OK consensus is my Burg friends like Redneck, so OK I'll stay the same nym, for now, it's still under thought, but I'm leaning back this way,
right now
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On to comments, I fear the Taliban, they're NOT sane, if they do nuke somewhere in America I don't think Obumble can backwater fast enough to prevent the Pakiwakis from glowing in the dark for the next Century or so. Mainly because if he tries He'll be an Ex-Pres as quick s congress can re-convene, (Assuming he survives) that one caveat makes me think the target will NOT be DC, as the Pakis know who's on their side, But I'll bet it's a port somewhere. (Airlines are under very close scrutiny)

Maybe Miami so Castro can invade, but there are more Cubans here than in Cuba so maybe not?

OK academic exercise, which American (Or other Nations) port city would help the Pakiwackis more when it vanishes?

Any ideas?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-04-23 19:28|| 2010-04-23 19:28|| Front Page Top

#12 a ground burst may do only 1/4 the damage as a proper air burst, but it is my (non-expert)understanding that it causes much more fallout. in the long run that would be a bigger win for the terrorists.

Posted by abu do you love 2010-04-23 19:31|| 2010-04-23 19:31|| Front Page Top

#13 Miami is closest to the launch site in Venezuela, the Cubans in Miami are most likely to overthrow Castro's socialist nirvana in Cuba after his death, and it's full of Joooos Iran wants to exterminate. Trifecta.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-04-23 19:34|| 2010-04-23 19:34|| Front Page Top

#14 RJ: i wont comment openly, but i have seen studies on your question done by university students that give some pretty scary answers. there are several scenarios that are not being defended against that would be devastating. as a certain professor from Berkley once said, "Just one nuclear bomb, even a small one, can totally ruin your whole day"

Posted by abu do you love 2010-04-23 19:35|| 2010-04-23 19:35|| Front Page Top

#15 This will be INDJUH'S THIRD NIGHTMARE MIL SCENARIO ala 2012, in addition to

* CHINA sending PLA troops to help "little brother" PAK in case of any new INDO-PAK MIL CONFLICT.

* CHIN quickly sending in ELITE AIRBORNE-MECH, SPECOPS FORCES during SINO-INDIAN WAR to CUTOFF INDIA'S NE CORRIDOR [Siliguri].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-04-23 19:37|| 2010-04-23 19:37|| Front Page Top

#16 Have played that game, won't share the shortlist. Sure the pros here and elsewhere have a bit more thorough game board than me. Its just that missiles can be tracked to a country where an alternative delivery means, as CrazyFool said, creates enough doubt it would be difficult politically to pull out the sledgehammer even if there is a video with the dudes flat out telling who they are and where they are from may not be enough.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-04-23 21:27|| 2010-04-23 21:27|| Front Page Top

#17 TOPIX > NUCLEAR WAR MAY START IN SOUTH ASIA OR MIDDLE EAST.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-04-23 22:59|| 2010-04-23 22:59|| Front Page Top

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