September 20, 2001

11:55 PM

Just think of what could be if Bin Laden gets his hands on this stuff. Makes you wonder what he has in the tool shed.
posted by KevinSkomsvold (5 comments total)

Well, that was the one bright side of 9-11; using the planes says that, for now, they don't have nuclear materials.
posted by hincandenza at 12:06 AM on September 21, 2001

But it is possible, since Pakistan is so unstable, that the pro-Taliban resistance could destabilize the Musharif government, take it over, and *presto* nuclear weapons....Hmmmm

Here's an article analyzing that very scenario.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001320010-2001324777,00.html
posted by readymade at 12:27 AM on September 21, 2001

Oops, that wasn't the article, although it is informative, and about the subject matter. But there's another one that's better.

Keep looking, readymade....
posted by readymade at 12:39 AM on September 21, 2001

I'm much more worried about how events are going to play out in Pakistan than in Afghanistan. The Taliban are Pakistani, and they seem to have a LOT of supporters there for their particular little bastardization of Islam. Half the country is on a general strike today because the president didn't completely repudiate the US and side with Bin Laden.
posted by aaron at 1:25 AM on September 21, 2001

Agreed, aaron. That would make the Indian-Pakistani (read: two nuclear states) clash much more dangerous... And you know that countries would be aligning themselves on both sides, as opposed to this fairly unilateral queueing.
posted by fooljay at 10:36 AM on September 21, 2001