Nuclear experts kidnapped in Pakistan

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23202259-23109,00.html

TWO Pakistani nuclear energy officials have been abducted by masked men from a troubled northwestern area near the Afghan border, police said today.

The kidnappers bundled the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) workers and their driver into a vehicle in Sheikh Badin, a town in militancy-hit Dera Ismail Khan district, local police chief Akbar Nasir said.

"They were technicians from the PAEC, they were whisked away early Monday morning," Mr Nasir said.

The officials were on a routine visit to conduct a geological survey for mineral exploration in the mountainous area, which adjoins Pakistan's lawless tribal regions, the police chief said.

"We don't know if the abductors were militants or members of some criminal gang," he said, adding that they were believed to be from the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan.

[Olney Blue]

1. Oh dear. I hope they will be OK. It's so dangerous there.

[Muttocracy]

2. hmmm, this could be the start of the big unraveling n/t

[bluesmail]

7. YEP

[Windy]

3. this is VERY troubling since pakistan is where bin laden, et al are now living....

Gee, thanks for abandoning Afghanistan before the job was done bush!

[Pastiche423]

9. bin Laden is dead

[shance]

21. Pakistan is being run by the ISI/CIA

n/t

[Muttocracy]

4. similar story from BBC, and more bad news from Pakistan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7240414.stm
"The technicians went missing on the same day as Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan, Tariq Azizuddin, was reportedly abducted in the same region."

And also
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7242193.stm
"Pakistan tests ballistic missile"
"The Pakistani military says it has successfully test-fired a short-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear device."

Great.

Duct tape, anyone?

[gateley]

11. Oh, MAN!

I don't want to sound like a broken record, but Biden has been warning of the legitimate concerns about Pakistan.

[jillan]

5. oh shit - - - - - - - - -

[gateley]

6. This is alarming. I see the story comes from an Australian source. I wonder

if it will be covered here by our media.

[bluesmail]

8. KICK!!

[bluesmail]

10. if I had any hearts left I'd give one to you

[NNN0LHI]

12. Its the thought that counts

Take care and see you later.

Don

[Jennifer C]

13. Kick

Very bad news, to say the least.

[my2sense]

14. MSM Missing In Action Again

If we had REAL news media this would have been covered instead of the baseball doping nonsense.

[lostnfound]

15. Fallout, coverup or interrogation resulting from the Sibel Edmonds articles??

"We don't know if the abductors were militants or members of some criminal gang"..or from the government itself, perhaps..the ISI..Someone covering their tracks on the smuggling ring, or someone trying to investigate the smuggling ring. Rule #1 in this complicated world, nothing is as it seems.

[blm]

17. No kidding. BFEE must be in full panic mode.

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[mojowork_n]

16. Hmmm. 6 nuclear scientists were killed in a plane crash not long ago, in Turkey

Here's the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/world/europe/01turkey.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

<Excerpt>

ISTANBUL, Nov. 30 — A Turkish passenger jet crashed in the mountains of western Turkey early Friday, killing all 57 people on board, including several prominent nuclear physicists on their way to a conference, Turkish authorities said.

The plane, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 operated by Atlasjet, an airline based in Istanbul, took off from Istanbul and disappeared from radar shortly before it was due to land at the airport in Isparta. It crashed about seven miles from the airport, near the town of Keciborlu, the authorities said. The cause of the crash was unclear. The weather was good, airline officials said.

The plane crashed in an area that was not on its scheduled route, according to Semsettin Uzun, the governor of Isparta Province. “We don’t understand how it landed there,” he said.

...With all the Sibel Edmonds connections to Turkish 'deep state' activity, and the recently averted coup:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2855600

Someone covering tracks, wiping fingerprints, stilling voices?

Which echoes back to Valerie Plame, who was researching the nuclear threat in Central Asia, before they derailed her career.

Not to mention the disturbing news from the democratic side of those connections:

Excerpt:

The UK's Times has already run three bombshell articles on the nuclear black market element in the case of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds this year, and we are expecting more fallout in the near future as new evidence and witnesses come forward.

In the meantime, another important angle to Edmonds' case has opened up. Earlier this week, the New York Post ran a Page 6 piece, ODD FILM BY HILLARY BACKER, which highlights the close relationship between Hillary Clinton and Chicago-based Turkish businessman Mehmet Celebi.

Celebi, "one of the national leaders of the Turkish-American community in the US," is a key fundraiser for Clinton, and is one of Clinton's Chicago delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Celebi was also heavily involved in the controversial 2006 movie "Valley of the Wolves: Iraq" which has been widely regarded as "anti-Semitic, anti-American, conspiratorial agitprop."

Mehmet Celebi is also a key figure in the Sibel Edmonds case - he is heavily involved in the narcotics trade in the US and the corruption and bribery of high-level US officials.

From Lukery, full post here:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2856579

[Supersedeas]

18. nothing to see here -- feed them more Repig's going after McNamee

[EFerrari]

19. What are the chances the "kidnappers" were ISI?

The tribal region is largely chaotic because the ISI and the army want it that way. :shrug:

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. Not good.