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May 29, 2004

Pakistan Test Fires Nuclear-Capable Missile

Pakistan sends a message to India.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan successfully test-fired on Saturday a ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads, as part of efforts to boost defenses in its rivalry with India.

Posted by Robert at May 29, 2004 1:32 PM
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Allahu Akbar

Posted by: Mahmoud at May 29, 2004 1:43 PM

Mahmoud:

Oppenheimer Akbar.

And, just to list some interesting facts, Dr. Oppenheimer quoted from the Hindu Bhagavad Gita when he witnessed the first atomic test explosion.

Funny that Allah should bless a polytheist (or polytheist-sympathizer) with such remarkable gifts.

Posted by: Ananda at May 29, 2004 1:55 PM

I am sure the Pak's nukes are on the target list...and after we take them out, the Indians will take care of the mop up.

Posted by: kirk at May 29, 2004 2:11 PM

India moves ahead, China moves
forward, Pakistan loses more ground
with each 30 day muslim month.
A Pakistan without nukes is
dangerous only to itself, and
can be left to wallow; a Pakistan
with nukes is a danger to others,
and will have to be 'persuaded' to
change course.
I would expect the Indians,
with tacit world approval, to
handle the problem.

Posted by: dby at May 29, 2004 3:24 PM

WOW yeah it works. God willing all these countries who support these terrorist will start nuking each other. One missle lobbed over in the direction of america or Isreal, will be the end of that shit of a country. Believe me that missle would never even come close to this great land before it was shot down and destroyed.
GOD MAKE US BELIEVERS STRONG AND WILLING TO DIE FOR YOU AND OUR GREAT COUNTRY THE USA.

JEREMIAH 20:12

Posted by: DeathToTheJihad at May 29, 2004 5:06 PM

Have to agree. I could even see some carpet thumper trying to pull off a "Lets you and him fight" by lobbing one nuke at the Federated states, and one at the US...but that Clancy stuff doesn't work well off paper.
All that would happen is that Islam, would be even more backward after the fallout dropped to safe(er) levels.

Posted by: Tim at May 29, 2004 6:08 PM

mahmood,

Are you a paki? Is it an islamic paradise? I am sure it is the model on which the world should be based.

cheers...

Posted by: basil at May 30, 2004 12:36 AM

As can be seen , Pakistan is growing into a more dangerous state by the month. Sadly, the Bush Administrations response to this growing threat is to forgive billions and billions in debt and back them to the fullest with billions in aid and even military assistance. One CANNOT stop a jihad while fully backing and supporting it.

Wesley

Posted by: wesley at May 30, 2004 1:03 AM

Allahu Akbar

Akbar schmakbar

Allahu schmallahu

There is no Allah but there is prozac.

All these angry muslims are depressed they need medication, it is as simple as that.

They don't need nukes they need anti-depressants.

Who wouldn't be depressed by a religion like this? It's all blood and revenge and hate and intolerance. Nothing is right with the World until it is 100% cleansed of the Infidel. Yadda, yadda, yadda... Their stupid little book written by a so called Prophet who was probably suffering from halucinations caused by sun stroke or extreme thirst has screwed them up really bad. Nothing, I mean nothing good comes out of the Islamic world. No wonder they are depressed, drug them!

Posted by: noneof yourbusiness at May 30, 2004 1:23 AM

Mahmoud, basil, Reza:

allah is evil. ilsam sucks. you will all die. besides we know who you are and where you live. ilsam will die as all moslems. Jesus is not a moslem. Adam and Eve were never muslim. Give it up. kill thy self or convert. hell awaits you pigs. Death to my all enemies; Freedom to all the righteous. Urban II.

Posted by: uban II at May 30, 2004 2:44 AM

noneof yourbusiness

I think you're right, but I'm not sure if anti-depressants are the right choice. Anti-psychotic medication such as Thorazine and Haldol would probably be beneficial in many cases.

Posted by: Anya at May 30, 2004 2:55 AM

Crucial to its destiny, Pakistan’s smack in the middle of a nuclear neighbourhood: India and China are armed with nukes, with US, Russian and Israeli warheads easily within distance of it as well. Iran, next door, is rapidly building up an arsenal of A-bombs and, till a year or so ago, Iraq, in addition, was headed on a path that soon would’ve given it nuclear weapons.

The possession of nukes affords Pakistan a disproportionate voice in the region; the US goes gently with the Pakistani Government because of the fear that should it be replaced by one that’s not friendly with Washington, up to 60 atomic devices - plus the plant to construct many more - will fall into the hands of Jihadis (of whom there are PLENTY in Pakistan).

Therefore, Washington’s been reluctant to publicly accept India as its full Ally in the “War on Terror”, lest it “provoke” these militant Islamists in Pakistan, or to make any big deal out of the lengthy nuclear-proliferation career of Pakistan’s Dr A. Q. Khan.

A further reason for America’s pronounced hesitancy to look critically into Islamabad’s nuclear weapons industry is that it’ll immediately (and embarrassingly) come to the fore that the development of Pakistan’s nuclear arms has been funded to the hilt, for decades, by the House of Saud - the US State Department’s particular darling, for half a century.

What a can of worms! In effect, for ages, Pakistan, Nth Korea, Iran - and once upon a time, Iraq and Libya - (all to differing degrees) were assisting one another to nuclearize, with Russia, China and France providing technical backing and Saudi Arabia financing the main conduit, Pakistan.

If Pakistan’s President, General Pervez Musharaf, is truly the Kemalist he claims to be, then a “peace of mutual deterrence” with India will be formally established, while radical Islamism will be stamped out in Pakistan. If not, the Jihadis will eventually take over his country, seizing its scores of nukes for use in atomic blackmail and terrorism, as they dream of doing.

Posted by: HG at May 30, 2004 5:10 AM

If I didn't know better, which I hope I do, I would swear that the world has somehow turned into a re-make of Monty Python's Life of Brian, brought up to the year 2004 and re-named the Life of Abdul.

I see a world full of Peoples Fronts for the Liberation of F... Knows Where, followers of the shoe battling followers of the gourd, and this lot, the crack team of suicide swordsmen who turn up at the end of the movie and, er, commit suicide.

I need to stop trying to read those 15 zillion word lakes of treacle postings from the ambassadors for peace, they really are doing my head in.

Posted by: ultach at May 30, 2004 12:55 PM

Musharraf is a clean-shaven jihadist. After september 11, he had a 'change of mind' and not a 'change of heart'. Pakistan's institutions are incapable of producing a kemalist (least of all its military or ISI which has groomed Musharraf so carefully). They are suit wearing clean shaven jihadists.
If you think otherwise pray tell me a terrorist that is not holed up in Pakistan or does not have support structures in Pakistan ?

It only remains to be seen who will call off Musharraf's bluff and a marvellous juggling act first - America or Lashkar - e - tayyaba. I will put my money on Lashkar getting rid of Miyan Musharraf first. America will continue to think that a failed Pakistan will somehow become India's problem. Atleast, until all hell breaks loose. How much more failed can Pakistan become before all hell breaks loose ? Till then, it allows a unique opportunity for the rest of world capitals from Beijing to Paris to Washington to chide both India and Pakistan that 'Isnt it better for India and Pakistan to stop fighting' with no reference to Jihad or terrorism.

Pakistanis (atleast Musharraf type of clean shaven jihadists) who think only in terms of muslims and non-muslims will not go beyond targeted terrorism against India lest it damage India's secularism too much. India will not currently go beyond whining about terrorism or brinkmanship (if terrorism becomes unbearable) without a clear end game in sight. The risks are too high.

The game will continue until the prophet length beard sporting jihadists overthrow the clean shaven jihadists after being fed up with trying to be deceptive about their intentions and waiting too long. They will call curtians. Then the real 'Day after tomorrow' will be released. Till then and until then friends let us each continue the sham and let us focus on Iran and Iraq and Syria and North Korea and Cuba and Zimbabwe and ... What else can we do anyway ?

Posted by: naresh c. at May 30, 2004 2:22 PM

"Allahu Akbar"
how dare they use the word of god on weapons, thats blasphemy and hyprocricy
they shout that word before they kill gods creations, thats pure evil and not god

Posted by: pro-orthodox at May 31, 2004 2:36 AM

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