LONDON - President Pervez Musharraf, defending his decision to declare emergency rule, has said Pakistan’s nuclear weapons could fall into the wrong hands if elections led to disturbances.

The comments, in a BBC interview broadcast on Saturday, come as U.S. envoy John Negroponte visited Pakistan to put pressure on Musharraf to revoke the two-week-old emergency, make peace with opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and hold fair elections.

Musharraf said that if elections were held in a “disturbed environment,” it could bring in dangerous elements who might pose a risk to control of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.

“They cannot fall into the wrong hands, if we manage ourselves politically. The military is there — as long as the military is there, nothing happens to the strategic assets, we are in charge and nobody does anything with them,” he said.

Musharraf, who took power in a coup eight years ago, cited rising Islamist militancy and a hostile judiciary as reasons for declaring emergency rule. He has said a general election will be held before January 9 and he expects to step down as army chief and be sworn in as a civilian president beforehand.

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Musharraf warns on nuke weapons

I don’t want to get into the politics of Pakistan, it’s an area of global politics where I have little knowledge and I won’t make a fool of myself by trying to claim I do…

I don’t know the difference between Pervez Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto and their political ideologies, their religious beliefs, their morals, or lack of, nor do I have any idea what’s in the hearts or minds of either individual as far as Pakistan or the world itself is concerned, but I do know this, Pakistan has nukes…

I also have my own personal theory as to why there has been a sudden lessening of violence in Iraq, I feel that every moonbat Islamic terrorist in the world it literally drooling at the prospect of Pakistan falling into some sort of disarray bordering on total anarchy thus allowing them the opportunity to possibly take possession OF at least a few OF those nukes…

Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is protected by Pakistani soldiers, poorly trained and poorly paid soldiers, I do know that much about Pakistani practices, and soldiers either fight, and sometimes die for one of 2 things, a love of country and cause, or money, the terrorist/insurgent fights for a cause and in most cases lately, that cause has been radical Islam, not money, not nation, a cause, one that has consumed millions upon millions of Muslims world wide, and their ultimate prize would be to take possession of nuclear weapons, where better to do so than a nation in the midst of political upheaval and turmoil, a nation such as Pakistan…

In my opinion, Pakistan, specifically their nuclear arsenal, and it’s security, present the biggest threat faced by us today, Iraq doesn’t have WMDs or nukes, Iran and Syria, while still terrorist nations, don’t have nukes, they are likely in an active campaign to secure nukes but at this time they don’t have them, Pakistan does and the security of those weapons is paramount to ALL else in Pakistan today…

I don’t know if either Musharraf or Bhutto have any concern for the rest of the world or if they comprehend the danger that this dust up presents to the free world, but if Islamic terrorists are allowed to get their hands on nuclear weapons the entire world is in danger and the Global War on Terror just took a hard left turn…

I don’t know what, if anything, we can do legally, morally or ethically, but Pakistan presents 100 times more of a threat to global security than Iraq ever did, and Bush didn’t hesitate to wade in to Iraq, maybe we need to get Musharraf to make some sort of reasonable threat against Daddy Bush, that should be enough to get us involved I would think…

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