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Washington (AFP) Dec 30, 2007The US government Sunday said there was still time for North Korea to come clean on its nuclear program as an end-of-year deadline approached. Failing full disclosure from the Stalinist state, the United States will look to unspecified other options, State Department spokesman Rob McInturff said. "Right up until the deadline we are still hoping to see full disclosure from the North Korea ... more Pakistan can survive latest chaos and bloodshed: analysts 
Islamabad (AFP) Dec 30, 2007Born from chaos and bloodshed, and still steeped in turmoil 60 years on, Pakistan has repeatedly defied predictions that the centre of the world's only nuclear-armed Islamic nation cannot hold. While Benazir Bhutto's assassination has renewed fears Pakistan will become another failed state with a destiny determined by bombs instead of ballots, analysts say it has been down this road before - ... more Pakistan A Failing Nuclear Power 
Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2007 Pakistan is one of the world's eight nuclear powers and the first one to be categorized as a failing state. Not failed yet, but on its way, and the world's major powers are powerless to correct the downward spiral. Some U.S. presidential hopefuls -- e.g., New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson -- are calling on President Pervez Musharraf to resign. At this juncture, such a resignation would gu ... more A Good Year For ABM Part Two 
Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2007 The U.S. ballistic missile program was overjoyed by a series of exceptionally successful tests across a wide spectrum of systems in 2007. The number and frequency of the successes, especially in the Aegis/Standard Missile-3 and Theater High Altitude Area Defense programs, suggested that these technologies are now firmly in the category of mature technologies, racking up an impressive tr ... more Outside View: Russia's ABM shield 
Moscow (UPI) Dec 27, 2007 "The issue of confrontation with Russia, especially direct confrontation, is still, unfortunately, kept alive by our Pentagon partners," General of the Army Yuri Baluyevsky, Russia's Chief of the General Staff, said in a mid-December interview with RIA Novosti. It all revolves around American plans to deploy a missile defense system, he said, "which Russia regards as a global strategic ... more |
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Crawford, Texas (AFP) Dec 28, 2007The White House on Friday said it was confident that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal was secure and did not risk falling into extremists' hands after the assassination Thursday of Benazir Bhutto. "At this time, as far as I know, it is the assessment of the intelligence community that Pakistan's weapons arsenal is secure," spokesman Scott Stanzel told reporters near the president's ranch in Crawfo ... more Pakistan's nuclear weapons safe, despite unrest: analysts 
New York (AFP) Dec 28, 2007The chance of Pakistan's nuclear weapons falling into the hands of Islamic militants is slight, even if unrest persists in the wake of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's death, US analysts said. The security of Pakistan's estimated 50 nuclear warheads has been under global scrutiny since President Pervez Musharraf imposed a state of emergency in November and concern has only risen since ... more NKorea says may slow down nuclear disablement: reports 
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 27, 2007North Korea has said it may slow down work to disable its nuclear plants because of what it called a delay in promised energy aid, Japanese media reported Thursday. North Korean foreign ministry official Hyun Hak-Bong made the comments after a meeting in Pyongyang Wednesday with Chinese and South Korean officials, Japan's Kyodo News and public broadcaster NHK reported. "There is a delay ... more Analysts say Pakistan facing worst crisis in history 
Islamabad (AFP) Dec 28, 2007Pakistan faces the worst crisis in its modern history after the killing of Benazir Bhutto, an attack aimed at destabilising the nuclear-armed Islamic nation and wrecking planned elections, analysts said. The country is on the edge of mass unrest following Bhutto's assassination on Thursday, with more than 20 people dying in riots and political violence sparked by her death in a gun and suici ... more Commentary: Pakistani suspects galore 
Washington (UPI) Dec 27, 2007 Suspects in the assassination of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto number in the tens of thousands. Some 800 Pakistanis have been killed by suicide bombers in the past year. Bhutto had a close brush with death Oct. 18, a few hours after returning from eight years of self-imposed exile in Dubai and London. The suicide bomber killed more than 140 people and injured 350, some a few feet from where she wa ... more |
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London (AFP) Dec 28, 2007Experts in Britain disagreed Friday on how likely it was that extremists could get their hands on Pakistan's nuclear arsenal following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Some analysts have raised fears that instability following Bhutto's killing Thursday could lead to unrest which would open the door for weapons to fall into the wrong hands. Professor Paul Wilkinson, chairman of Saint ... more US condemns Pakistan attack 
Crawford, Texas (AFP) Dec 27, 2007US President George W. Bush Thursday condemned the "cowardly" assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto that sparked new fears for the stability of the nuclear-armed US ally. Bush telephoned Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to discuss the situation, the White House said, while a spokesman appealed for calm in Pakistan amid deadly riots following Bhutto's murder. "Th ... more Analysis: Pakistan hurt by Bhutto killing 
Washington (UPI) Dec 27, 2007 The reported killing of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto shows the continued strength of Islamists and paralyzes Pakistan's political system, at least in the short term. "Her killing threatens Pakistan's existence because she was very popular, especially in the Sindh region," Anwar Iqbal, Washington correspondent for Pakistan's Dawn newspaper, told United Press Internation ... more NATO hopes Pakistan army will continue to cooperate: official
Brussels (AFP) Dec 28, 2007NATO hopes the Pakistani military will continue to help combat insurgents near the Afghan border despite the killing of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, an alliance official said Friday. The official underscored that while security in Pakistan is "very volatile" in the wake of Bhutto's death in a suicide attack Thursday, NATO does not intend to change its military plan in Afghanistan despit ... more Thompson Files: A good year for Bush 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Dec 27, 2007 When Operation Desert Storm ended with a crushing defeat of Iraqi forces in early 1991, many pundits opined that U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush was assured of re-election. Military success had made the president so popular that it was hard to see what could derail his re-election bid. But Bush's popularity declined rapidly after Desert Storm, and in 1992 he lost the White House to B ... more
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