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Sleeping with the Enemy? by Asif Chauhdary

8 February, 2010 8 February, 2010 South & Central Asia South & Central Asia comments 1 comments

A famous web journal 'Times on line' has lifted Christina Lamb's story from daily The Sunday Times, on 17 January 2010, titled "Elite US troops ready to combat Pakistani nuclear hijacks". The story clearly reflects the writer's biased and prejudiced mind. There is a popular saying that sleeping with a celebrity doesn't make you a star, hence if one finds few nights to spend with some top Pakistani politician that doesn't qualify every story one writes. Still in her naughties (Forties) Christina Lamb has just one thing at her credit (apart from couple of humiliations she faced during her stay in Pakistan) and that's her association with the Financial Times. Folks here still have not forgotten the embarrassment she faced when the FT flashed her scoop about a ‘coup' and then dejectedly retracted (All the more reasons for not accepting her stories).

 

Probably she is trying to settling the scores for those few humiliations now by scripting thrilling pieces. I wonder why she forgets while pointing a finger at Pakistan that rest of the four are pointing towards her? She needs to remember that Pakistan's nuclear safety record vis-à-vis America is far better. Leaving let alone the two disastrous detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the trigger happy USA and which took millions of lives, the American accident history starts as early as from August 5, 1950, when A B-29 bomber took off from Suisun Air Force Base, Fairfield, California and carrying a nuclear weapon without its fissile core crashed and burned near a trailer park occupied by 200 families. Ever since then there is not even a single year when one or the other nuclear hasn't happened.

 

To mention, the most terrible one occurred on January 17, 1966, at Palomares, Spain when a B-52 bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs collided in midair with a KC-135 tanker near Palomares, Spain. Of the four H-bombs aboard, two weapons' high explosive material exploded on ground impact, releasing radioactive materials, including plutonium, over the fields of Palomares. Approximately 1,400 tons of slightly contaminated soil and vegetation were later taken to the United States for storage at an approved site. A third nuclear weapon fell to earth but remained relatively intact; the last one fell into the ocean and the wreckage from the accident fell across approximately 100 square miles of land and water.

 

Hence the moral of the story is that the kettle should avoid calling the pot black and instead of quoting insane and ignorant like Gregory, Christina better lose some sleep for in house mess. As far as the intrusion by some elite US troops in Pakistan is concerned well I am sure after facing disgraceful humiliation in Iraq and Afghanistan the Americans forces would think hundred times before taking any such step and especially when the Pak army's capabilities are well known to the US. The book ‘Waiting for Allah' didn't click to the readers so I suggest the lady to go for another one ‘Help me Christ' or may be one has to sleep with the enemy to get another scoop?

 

Christina is advised to spend some time, in the name of holy journalism, to look for the reason of current disastrous earthquake in Haiti, because talk of the town suggests that it was not the earthquake rather fallout of careless underground nuclear detonation.

 



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  • By Anonymous 184 Days Ago
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    we heard christi stayed with a pakistani lawyer etaizaz. beside that she'd been sleeping wid politicians. what the hack credibility she has? roger
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