Pakistan nuclear security plan
Monday, November 9, 2009
NEW YORK: The Obama administration has been negotiating highly sensitive understandings with the Pakistani military, the influential magazine ‘The New Yorker’ says in a detailed report by world famous Pulitzer prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh, published in its latest issue.
“The Pakistanis gave us a virtual look at the number of warheads, some of their locations, and their command-and-control system,” Hersh quotes a former senior US intelligence official. “We saw their target list and their mobilization plans. We got their security plans, so we could augment them in case of a breach of security,” he said.
“We’re there to help the Pakistanis, but we’re also there to extend our own axis of security to their nuclear stockpile.”The secret understandings between the US and Pakistan would allow specially trained American units to provide added security for the Pakistani nuclear arsenal in case of a crisis, the report said.
Labels: Pakistan's Nukes, US Pakistan Relations
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