Nuclear Terrorism: The Taliban has once again invaded a supposedly secure Pakistani military base, with 30 killed. How long can it be before Islamist terrorists find Pakistan's 120-plus nuclear bombs?
Thirteen Taliban operatives in paramilitary uniforms drove through police checkpoints into a Pakistan Air Force compound near the northern city of Peshawar on Friday. All were killed after killing 30 others.
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Pakistani security officials rush their colleague to a hospital
after the Taliban launched a brazen assault on a military
base in Peshawar on Friday. AP
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To this point, the world has focused on the danger of a nuclear Iran. And with President Obama's deal perpetuating the radical Tehran regime's status as a breakout atomic weapons power, the concerns are well-founded. But the Taliban might very well go nuclear first.
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This is far from the first time that the terror group that hosted the 9/11 attackers has penetrated "tough" Pakistani military security. Three years ago, six Taliban sporting Pakistani Air Force uniforms and suicide bombs broke into the Air Force's Aeronautical Complex northwest of Islamabad. It was the third attack on that base, widely believed to house some of Pakistan's 120 or more nuclear warheads.
As London's Telegraph reported, "the gunmen were able to break in to the compound despite a red alert at all military installations," issued after a warning from Pakistan's state Inter-Services Intelligence of an attack by militants from the North Waziristan tribal area.Read the rest of this IBD editorial HERE.
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