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...Pakistan does not have a tradition of leaders who put the nation above self. During Sharif's time in office, he tested six nuclear devices, dismissed a Supreme Court chief justice (as Musharraf tried to do), and promoted Islamic law. The press was often, and brutally, stopped from reporting on sensitive matters. Under Sharif's rule, Pakistan and India nearly erupted into nuclear war over Kashmir, when Musharraf, as head of the army, sent troops into Indian-held territory at Kargil. (Sharif maintains that Musharraf acted on his own, and that he subsequently tried to dismiss Musharraf - the act that...
...today. Corruption charges against him, including money laundering through a paper mill to the tune of about $31.5 million, are glossed over as opposition propaganda. (Sharif denies the charges.) He even gets credit for standing up to the Indians at Kargil, and is lionized as a hero for the nuclear tests he conducted. "He is a true patriot," says Naveed Khawaja, a 40-year-old office worker in Rawalpindi...
...Musharraf-Bhutto deal were in fact to leave both leaders discredited and weakened, then U.S. interests in Pakistan--continued help in the war against al-Qaeda, protection of the country's nuclear arsenal and the strengthening of the moderate majority against the extremist fringe--might be better served by the man both leaders despise: Sharif. The Bush Administration is skeptical. The State Department official describes Sharif as "a player with a mixed record." As Prime Minister, he had a good relationship with the Clinton Administration, allowing the U.S. in 1998 to use Pakistani airspace for missile attacks against al-Qaeda...
Nevertheless, an alliance between Iran and Nicaragua could pose practical security problems for the U.S. "[Terrorist activities] could be much harder to detect than the Cuban Missile Crisis," says Jett. who notes that in the 1960s satellite photos detected the danger, but today a nuclear bomb can be hidden in a suitcase and go undetected. Neither Managua or Tehran has much to gain by an Iranian military presence, says Jett. "I would think they would just keep it covert and low key to the extent that they...
...restricted military base on a low-lying, depopulated atoll 1,000 miles from the nearest continent. Back in 1966, the U.S. signed a secret agreement with Great Britain allowing the Pentagon to use the Indian Ocean territory as an airbase in exchange for a big discount on Polaris nuclear missiles. Three years later, hundreds of Navy seabees arrived by ship and began pouring out the 12,000-foot runway that would become a bulwark of American Cold War strategy in the region, and a key launching pad for the first and second Gulf wars, the 1998 bombing of Iraq...