Four views: Pakistan nukes in Taliban hands

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sun Jul 5, 2009 2:11 AM EDT

Article Source: BBC News

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At least four prominent intellectuals, including Ahmed Rashid who confronted Pakistan army in the mountains of Baluchistan 1973-77 and is author of the recently-published Descent Into Chaos, give divergent views on Pakistan's 100 nuclear warheads going into the hands of Islamic fundamentalists.

The New York Times reported last year:

FRESH out of Cambridge University in the late 1960s, and steeped in the era's favorites — Marx, Mao and Che — Ahmed Rashid took off for the hills of Baluchistan, a dry, tough patch of western Pakistan. He stayed for 10 years.

He was a guerrilla fighter and political organizer, and with a couple of like-minded Pakistani pals, led peasants seeking autonomy against the Pakistani Army. He emerged, after bouts of hepatitis, malaria and lost teeth, not exactly disillusioned but defeated, he recalled recently from the comfort of his study overlooking a garden of palms.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/world/asia/05rashid.html

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Where did you get the estimate of 100 warheads? Neither story mentions that.

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#1 - Sun Jul 5, 2009 4:06 AM EDT

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#2 - Wed Jul 8, 2009 12:05 AM EDT

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