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...Talibanization of Pakistan has raised fears that a future regime in the country may put Islambad's nuclear capacity - estimated at about 80 nuclear devices - into the hands of parties inimical to the West. Indeed, the militants have spread their influence into more moderate areas of Pakistan such as the once-touristy Swat Valley. The militant groups have also launched attacks against Pakistan's cities, including the capital. In July 2007 a mosque in Islamabad became the site of a bloody confrontation between government security forces and radical Islamists and triggered a fresh wave of bombings, kidnappings and other attacks...
...Islamic world and, as it came to a close, fostered the rise of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda and the Taliban regime that eventually took over most of Afghanistan. In the 1990s, relations between Islamabad and Washington chilled after the U.S. imposed sanctions on Pakistan for pursuing nuclear weapons. Pakistan's government backed the puritanical Taliban government in Kabul until Sept...
...Musharraf is a former commando and fought in Pakistan's wars with its bigger South Asian neighbor - and constant rival - India in 1965 and 1971. He was Chief of Army Staff during a smaller conflict between the two countries in 1999, a bloody tussle that some feared might go nuclear as both India and Pakistan had just carried out nuclear tests and had - and continue to have - the ability to launch nuclear strikes. After the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. in 2001, Musharraf aligned himself with President Bush, who has consistently called the Pakistani leader one of America's most...
...agents of that change will be young people like Jenkins and Tolkan, the college-age members of the Millennial generation, born after 1980. These post Cold War kids have grown up with the threat of global warming - just as their parents grew up with the fear of nuclear war - and they know that they'll be left to cope with a warmer world tomorrow if nothing is done to slow carbon emissions today...
...seen as an option. "We are mindful not to do anything that would undermine counterterrorism efforts," Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said to reporters during a trip to China. Washington's Pakistan nightmare is that a weakened Musharraf may be ousted by extremist groups, leaving the country's nuclear arsenal in the hands of America-hating wackos. Anthony Zinni, a retired Marine general who headed the U.S. Central Command when Musharraf became army chief in 1998, points out that the U.S. ban on military exchanges with Pakistan during the 1990s--because of Islamabad's push for nuclear weapons--helped radicalize...