THE INDIANS ARE BETTER PREPARED FOR THAT DUTY:

US ready to seize Pak nuke installments: Qazi (the News, December 27, 2009)

Former Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Qazi Hussin Ahmed has alleged that the United States has made the arrangements for the seizure of country’s nuclear installments.

Speaking to media at a reception in Ghazi, Ahmed said the Americans have established their set-up in Kahota and Tarbela.

The just completed run of the British series Spooks (or MI-5 here) had a storyline where rogue elements in the CIA and Chinese intelligence had connived to provoke a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan. In addition to the typical anti-American tenor of the show it was downright bizarre that they posited both that the two sides would be evenly matched and that India would be on its own in such a war. Not only has India invested tremendous time and effort in forces capable of securing Pakistan's nukes, should the need ever arise, but they could count on assistance from the US and Israel, at a minimum--and India/Israel/America is an awfully maximal minimum.

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US has special crack squad in place to secure Pak nukes at short notice (ANI, 5/15/09)

The United States has in place a detailed emergency plan to secure Pakistan’s mobile arsenal of nuclear warheads, in case the nukes are in danger of falling into the hands of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups.

According to the US intelligence sources, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the super-secret commando unit headquartered at Fort Bragg, has been given orders to remain prepared for action at short notice.

The JSOC, the US army’s chief terrorists hunting squad, is already present in the region and is operating along the western Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 27, 2009 12:20 PM