Al -Qaeda Desires to Use Pakistan’s Nuclear Missiles to attack United States

Allison Bricker

Al-Qaeda’s third in command, Mustafa Abul-Yazeed, said in an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera¹ today, that he is praying Taliban forces are able to capture Pakistani nuclear weapons as they continue fighting their way towards Islamabad. In April of this year, Taliban forces captured the “Swat Valley region” and are now approximately sixty-miles outside the Pakistani capitol.

Abul-Yazeed also goes on to say during the interview that hostilities will only cease when the United States removes its forces from all Muslim countries and quits supplying military funding to nations hostile towards Muslims, namely Israel. Foreign policy experts, the C.I.A., and Representative Ron Paul have also cited our interventionist foreign policy as the root cause of what is known as “blowback”, i.e. the motivation to commit acts of terrorism against the United States.

Source(s): ¹ “The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition)” by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, published by:W.W. Norton & Co. July 22, 2004

• ² Al Jazeera News Network, “Al-Qaeda commander threatens US” orignally aired June 22nd, 2009

• ³ “Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror” by Michael Scheuer, Potomac Books Inc. March 4, 2005

• ⁴ “Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism” by Robert Pape Random House Trade Paperbacks – July 25, 2006

• ⁵ “Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire” (American Empire Project) by Chalmers Johnson Holt Paperbacks January 4, 2004