ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — A gas leak sparked an explosion and fire Tuesday at a nuclear plant that is believed to produce enriched plutonium for Pakistan's atomic weapons program. Two workers were killed.
The Khushab heavy water plant was shut down while undergoing annual maintenance at the time, the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission said. The commission evacuated the plant but assured the public that there was no risk of exposure outside the sprawling facility southeast of the capital, Islamabad.
The "situation was immediately brought under control, and two workers lost their lives while controlling the incident," the commission said.
It said the leaking gas was burned off by plant equipment and that the cause was under investigation.
The government claims Khushab produces electricity. Last year, the Washington-based Institute of Science for International Security said the plant has three reactors, including two that were still under construction last June. It cited satellite photos of the sprawling site that is under military control.
The development of the reactor and other nuclear-related activities "imply" that Pakistan has decided to "increase significantly its production of plutonium for nuclear weapons," the institute said in a report analyzing the images.
Police near the plant said they were advised by plant officials to prepare buses for a wider evacuation, but then were told they would not be needed.
Hamid Mukhtar Gondal, police chief for the district where Khushab is located, said he was told that an accidental blast was caused by cylinders of an unspecified gas.
"After the blast, the building caught fire," Gondal told The Associated Press. "Two men sustained burns and died on the way to a hospital.
"At the moment, with the help of God, everything is under control," he said. "The fire has been put out. There is no spread of poisonous gas at all."
Ghulam Muhammad, the mayor of the neighboring town of Khushab, said there was initial panic as the plant and the residential colony for workers were evacuated and roadblocks thrown up to cordon off the area.
Within three hours, plant management gave an all clear and removed the roadblocks, he said, adding he was unhappy that local officials were not immediately told of the incident.
"We only got informed of the gas leak by the employees rushing out of the colony," he said. "For public safety, they need to inform the local administration."
Pakistan, which carried out nuclear tests in 1998 to match those by archrival India, has a fairly safe nuclear safety record. But some minor incidents have occurred in recent years.
In 2003, one laboratory worker was killed and another man injured in an explosion in a liquid nitrogen tank at the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences near Islamabad.
Associated Press writers Asif Shahzad in Lahore and Sadaqat Jan and Zarar Khan in Islamabad contributed to this report.
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The following is from a wierd website that appears to be connected in some way with Russian intelligence.
US Launches Raid On Pakistan Nuclear Plant, 2 Reported Killed
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
In a world spinning rapidly out of control, and towards total nuclear chaos, Russian Military Officials are reporting today that that United States Special Forces Troops stationed in Afghanistan launched an attack against Pakistan’s Khushab Nuclear Facility [pictured on left, second picture down] which produces enriched plutonium for that Muslim Nations nuclear arsenal.
Western media sources, though confirming an explosion, and two deaths, at the Khushab Nuclear Facility have issued one of their ‘standard’ news blackouts on this attack as the United States prepares for its imminent escalation of the Middle East War with an attack on Iran, and which, these reports state, this attack upon Pakistan was meant to deter that Nation from becoming involved in.
Though the United States has been reported to be frantically working through ‘secret channels’ to insure the survival of Pakistan’s dictator, Pervez Musharraf [pictured top left with President Bush], against that Nations newly installed government, his fall appears imminent, and with his ouster the Americans would lose their only ally in that volatile region.
These reports continue by stating that the United States War Leaders became ‘alarmed’ by the statements made by Pakistan’s new government about the planned release of the ‘Father’ of their nuclear weapons programme, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and who the American’s had labeled as one of their top enemies for his selling of nuclear secrets to Iran.
The effect of this new attack by the US against Pakistan, these reports say, is twofold in its objectives, and which are: 1.) To show the new government of Pakistan the full ‘power and resolve’ of American Military Forces, and 2.) Convince Pakistan’s new government that without Musharraf leading them they face certain destruction.
At this time it is not known what the reaction of the new Pakistani government will be to this latest attack upon their sovereignty, but it can be stated, and by their past actions, that the United States is fully prepared to embroil the entire World in Total War prior to the collapse of their economy.
As the price of oil on the World markets surge towards record highs, and as the American people are now being warned that their petrol prices are about to go over $4.00 a gallon, and as the US Federal Reserve continues to pump billions of more dollars into their rapidly failing banking system, it goes without saying that the once great United States appears, indeed, to be on the verge of imminent collapse.
So dangerous has the situation in the United States become, that no less than the New York Times itself, and which bills itself as the ‘Nations Newspaper’, is now writing about the growing dangers facing the American people, and as we can read in their article titled "Duck and Cover: It’s the New Survivalism", and which says:
"THE traditional face of survivalism is that of a shaggy loner in camouflage, holed up in a cabin in the wilderness and surrounded by cases of canned goods and ammunition.
It is not that of Barton M. Biggs, the former chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley. Yet in Mr. Biggs’s new book, “Wealth, War and Wisdom,” he says people should “assume the possibility of a breakdown of the civilized infrastructure.”
“Your safe haven must be self-sufficient and capable of growing some kind of food,” Mr. Biggs writes. “It should be well-stocked with seed, fertilizer, canned food, wine, medicine, clothes, etc. Think Swiss Family Robinson. Even in America and Europe there could be moments of riot and rebellion when law and order temporarily completely breaks down.”
Survivalism, it seems, is not just for survivalists anymore.
Faced with a confluence of diverse threats — a tanking economy, a housing crisis, looming environmental disasters, and a sharp spike in oil prices — people who do not consider themselves extremists are starting to discuss doomsday measures once associated with the social fringes.
They stockpile or grow food in case of a supply breakdown, or buy precious metals in case of economic collapse. Some try to take their houses off the electricity grid, or plan safe houses far away. The point is not to drop out of society, but to be prepared in case the future turns out like something out of “An Inconvenient Truth,” if not “Mad Max.”
“I’m not a gun-nut, camo-wearing skinhead. I don’t even hunt or fish,” said Bill Marcom, 53, a construction executive in Dallas.
Still, motivated by a belief that the credit crunch and a bursting housing bubble might spark widespread economic chaos — “the Greater Depression,” as he put it — Mr. Marcom began to take measures to prepare for the unknown over the last few years: buying old silver coins to use as currency; buying G.P.S. units, a satellite telephone and a hydroponic kit; and building a simple cabin in a remote West Texas desert.
“If all these planets line up and things do get really bad,” Mr. Marcom said, “those who have not prepared will be trapped in the city with thousands of other people needing food and propane and everything else.”
Unfortunately, however, the numerous warnings being issued to the American people continue to appear to be falling upon ears that can’t hear, eyes that can’t see, and minds that can’t think.
One can only wonder how these once great people have failed to remember the many lessons passed down to them by their ancestors and have descended to the point where they have become virtual slaves to their masters of war.
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1088.htm
US Launches Raid On Pakistan Nuclear Plant, 2 Reported Killed
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
In a world spinning rapidly out of control, and towards total nuclear chaos, Russian Military Officials are reporting today that that United States Special Forces Troops stationed in Afghanistan launched an attack against Pakistan’s Khushab Nuclear Facility [pictured on left, second picture down] which produces enriched plutonium for that Muslim Nations nuclear arsenal.
Western media sources, though confirming an explosion, and two deaths, at the Khushab Nuclear Facility have issued one of their ‘standard’ news blackouts on this attack as the United States prepares for its imminent escalation of the Middle East War with an attack on Iran, and which, these reports state, this attack upon Pakistan was meant to deter that Nation from becoming involved in.
Though the United States has been reported to be frantically working through ‘secret channels’ to insure the survival of Pakistan’s dictator, Pervez Musharraf [pictured top left with President Bush], against that Nations newly installed government, his fall appears imminent, and with his ouster the Americans would lose their only ally in that volatile region.
These reports continue by stating that the United States War Leaders became ‘alarmed’ by the statements made by Pakistan’s new government about the planned release of the ‘Father’ of their nuclear weapons programme, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and who the American’s had labeled as one of their top enemies for his selling of nuclear secrets to Iran.
The effect of this new attack by the US against Pakistan, these reports say, is twofold in its objectives, and which are: 1.) To show the new government of Pakistan the full ‘power and resolve’ of American Military Forces, and 2.) Convince Pakistan’s new government that without Musharraf leading them they face certain destruction.
At this time it is not known what the reaction of the new Pakistani government will be to this latest attack upon their sovereignty, but it can be stated, and by their past actions, that the United States is fully prepared to embroil the entire World in Total War prior to the collapse of their economy.
As the price of oil on the World markets surge towards record highs, and as the American people are now being warned that their petrol prices are about to go over $4.00 a gallon, and as the US Federal Reserve continues to pump billions of more dollars into their rapidly failing banking system, it goes without saying that the once great United States appears, indeed, to be on the verge of imminent collapse.
So dangerous has the situation in the United States become, that no less than the New York Times itself, and which bills itself as the ‘Nations Newspaper’, is now writing about the growing dangers facing the American people, and as we can read in their article titled "Duck and Cover: It’s the New Survivalism", and which says:
"THE traditional face of survivalism is that of a shaggy loner in camouflage, holed up in a cabin in the wilderness and surrounded by cases of canned goods and ammunition.
It is not that of Barton M. Biggs, the former chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley. Yet in Mr. Biggs’s new book, “Wealth, War and Wisdom,” he says people should “assume the possibility of a breakdown of the civilized infrastructure.”
“Your safe haven must be self-sufficient and capable of growing some kind of food,” Mr. Biggs writes. “It should be well-stocked with seed, fertilizer, canned food, wine, medicine, clothes, etc. Think Swiss Family Robinson. Even in America and Europe there could be moments of riot and rebellion when law and order temporarily completely breaks down.”
Survivalism, it seems, is not just for survivalists anymore.
Faced with a confluence of diverse threats — a tanking economy, a housing crisis, looming environmental disasters, and a sharp spike in oil prices — people who do not consider themselves extremists are starting to discuss doomsday measures once associated with the social fringes.
They stockpile or grow food in case of a supply breakdown, or buy precious metals in case of economic collapse. Some try to take their houses off the electricity grid, or plan safe houses far away. The point is not to drop out of society, but to be prepared in case the future turns out like something out of “An Inconvenient Truth,” if not “Mad Max.”
“I’m not a gun-nut, camo-wearing skinhead. I don’t even hunt or fish,” said Bill Marcom, 53, a construction executive in Dallas.
Still, motivated by a belief that the credit crunch and a bursting housing bubble might spark widespread economic chaos — “the Greater Depression,” as he put it — Mr. Marcom began to take measures to prepare for the unknown over the last few years: buying old silver coins to use as currency; buying G.P.S. units, a satellite telephone and a hydroponic kit; and building a simple cabin in a remote West Texas desert.
“If all these planets line up and things do get really bad,” Mr. Marcom said, “those who have not prepared will be trapped in the city with thousands of other people needing food and propane and everything else.”
Unfortunately, however, the numerous warnings being issued to the American people continue to appear to be falling upon ears that can’t hear, eyes that can’t see, and minds that can’t think.
One can only wonder how these once great people have failed to remember the many lessons passed down to them by their ancestors and have descended to the point where they have become virtual slaves to their masters of war.
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1088.htm
QUOTE(Tamerlane @ Apr 8 2008, 02:58 PM) 
The following is from a wierd website that appears to be connected in some way with Russian intelligence.
US Launches Raid On Pakistan Nuclear Plant, 2 Reported Killed
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
In a world spinning rapidly out of control, and towards total nuclear chaos, Russian Military Officials are reporting today that that United States Special Forces Troops stationed in Afghanistan launched an attack against Pakistan’s Khushab Nuclear Facility [pictured on left, second picture down] which produces enriched plutonium for that Muslim Nations nuclear arsenal.
Western media sources, though confirming an explosion, and two deaths, at the Khushab Nuclear Facility have issued one of their ‘standard’ news blackouts on this attack as the United States prepares for its imminent escalation of the Middle East War with an attack on Iran, and which, these reports state, this attack upon Pakistan was meant to deter that Nation from becoming involved in.
Though the United States has been reported to be frantically working through ‘secret channels’ to insure the survival of Pakistan’s dictator, Pervez Musharraf [pictured top left with President Bush], against that Nations newly installed government, his fall appears imminent, and with his ouster the Americans would lose their only ally in that volatile region.
These reports continue by stating that the United States War Leaders became ‘alarmed’ by the statements made by Pakistan’s new government about the planned release of the ‘Father’ of their nuclear weapons programme, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and who the American’s had labeled as one of their top enemies for his selling of nuclear secrets to Iran.
The effect of this new attack by the US against Pakistan, these reports say, is twofold in its objectives, and which are: 1.) To show the new government of Pakistan the full ‘power and resolve’ of American Military Forces, and 2.) Convince Pakistan’s new government that without Musharraf leading them they face certain destruction.
At this time it is not known what the reaction of the new Pakistani government will be to this latest attack upon their sovereignty, but it can be stated, and by their past actions, that the United States is fully prepared to embroil the entire World in Total War prior to the collapse of their economy.
As the price of oil on the World markets surge towards record highs, and as the American people are now being warned that their petrol prices are about to go over $4.00 a gallon, and as the US Federal Reserve continues to pump billions of more dollars into their rapidly failing banking system, it goes without saying that the once great United States appears, indeed, to be on the verge of imminent collapse.
So dangerous has the situation in the United States become, that no less than the New York Times itself, and which bills itself as the ‘Nations Newspaper’, is now writing about the growing dangers facing the American people, and as we can read in their article titled "Duck and Cover: It’s the New Survivalism", and which says:
"THE traditional face of survivalism is that of a shaggy loner in camouflage, holed up in a cabin in the wilderness and surrounded by cases of canned goods and ammunition.
It is not that of Barton M. Biggs, the former chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley. Yet in Mr. Biggs’s new book, “Wealth, War and Wisdom,” he says people should “assume the possibility of a breakdown of the civilized infrastructure.”
“Your safe haven must be self-sufficient and capable of growing some kind of food,” Mr. Biggs writes. “It should be well-stocked with seed, fertilizer, canned food, wine, medicine, clothes, etc. Think Swiss Family Robinson. Even in America and Europe there could be moments of riot and rebellion when law and order temporarily completely breaks down.”
Survivalism, it seems, is not just for survivalists anymore.
Faced with a confluence of diverse threats — a tanking economy, a housing crisis, looming environmental disasters, and a sharp spike in oil prices — people who do not consider themselves extremists are starting to discuss doomsday measures once associated with the social fringes.
They stockpile or grow food in case of a supply breakdown, or buy precious metals in case of economic collapse. Some try to take their houses off the electricity grid, or plan safe houses far away. The point is not to drop out of society, but to be prepared in case the future turns out like something out of “An Inconvenient Truth,” if not “Mad Max.”
“I’m not a gun-nut, camo-wearing skinhead. I don’t even hunt or fish,” said Bill Marcom, 53, a construction executive in Dallas.
Still, motivated by a belief that the credit crunch and a bursting housing bubble might spark widespread economic chaos — “the Greater Depression,” as he put it — Mr. Marcom began to take measures to prepare for the unknown over the last few years: buying old silver coins to use as currency; buying G.P.S. units, a satellite telephone and a hydroponic kit; and building a simple cabin in a remote West Texas desert.
“If all these planets line up and things do get really bad,” Mr. Marcom said, “those who have not prepared will be trapped in the city with thousands of other people needing food and propane and everything else.”
Unfortunately, however, the numerous warnings being issued to the American people continue to appear to be falling upon ears that can’t hear, eyes that can’t see, and minds that can’t think.
One can only wonder how these once great people have failed to remember the many lessons passed down to them by their ancestors and have descended to the point where they have become virtual slaves to their masters of war.
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1088.htm
US Launches Raid On Pakistan Nuclear Plant, 2 Reported Killed
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
In a world spinning rapidly out of control, and towards total nuclear chaos, Russian Military Officials are reporting today that that United States Special Forces Troops stationed in Afghanistan launched an attack against Pakistan’s Khushab Nuclear Facility [pictured on left, second picture down] which produces enriched plutonium for that Muslim Nations nuclear arsenal.
Western media sources, though confirming an explosion, and two deaths, at the Khushab Nuclear Facility have issued one of their ‘standard’ news blackouts on this attack as the United States prepares for its imminent escalation of the Middle East War with an attack on Iran, and which, these reports state, this attack upon Pakistan was meant to deter that Nation from becoming involved in.
Though the United States has been reported to be frantically working through ‘secret channels’ to insure the survival of Pakistan’s dictator, Pervez Musharraf [pictured top left with President Bush], against that Nations newly installed government, his fall appears imminent, and with his ouster the Americans would lose their only ally in that volatile region.
These reports continue by stating that the United States War Leaders became ‘alarmed’ by the statements made by Pakistan’s new government about the planned release of the ‘Father’ of their nuclear weapons programme, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and who the American’s had labeled as one of their top enemies for his selling of nuclear secrets to Iran.
The effect of this new attack by the US against Pakistan, these reports say, is twofold in its objectives, and which are: 1.) To show the new government of Pakistan the full ‘power and resolve’ of American Military Forces, and 2.) Convince Pakistan’s new government that without Musharraf leading them they face certain destruction.
At this time it is not known what the reaction of the new Pakistani government will be to this latest attack upon their sovereignty, but it can be stated, and by their past actions, that the United States is fully prepared to embroil the entire World in Total War prior to the collapse of their economy.
As the price of oil on the World markets surge towards record highs, and as the American people are now being warned that their petrol prices are about to go over $4.00 a gallon, and as the US Federal Reserve continues to pump billions of more dollars into their rapidly failing banking system, it goes without saying that the once great United States appears, indeed, to be on the verge of imminent collapse.
So dangerous has the situation in the United States become, that no less than the New York Times itself, and which bills itself as the ‘Nations Newspaper’, is now writing about the growing dangers facing the American people, and as we can read in their article titled "Duck and Cover: It’s the New Survivalism", and which says:
"THE traditional face of survivalism is that of a shaggy loner in camouflage, holed up in a cabin in the wilderness and surrounded by cases of canned goods and ammunition.
It is not that of Barton M. Biggs, the former chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley. Yet in Mr. Biggs’s new book, “Wealth, War and Wisdom,” he says people should “assume the possibility of a breakdown of the civilized infrastructure.”
“Your safe haven must be self-sufficient and capable of growing some kind of food,” Mr. Biggs writes. “It should be well-stocked with seed, fertilizer, canned food, wine, medicine, clothes, etc. Think Swiss Family Robinson. Even in America and Europe there could be moments of riot and rebellion when law and order temporarily completely breaks down.”
Survivalism, it seems, is not just for survivalists anymore.
Faced with a confluence of diverse threats — a tanking economy, a housing crisis, looming environmental disasters, and a sharp spike in oil prices — people who do not consider themselves extremists are starting to discuss doomsday measures once associated with the social fringes.
They stockpile or grow food in case of a supply breakdown, or buy precious metals in case of economic collapse. Some try to take their houses off the electricity grid, or plan safe houses far away. The point is not to drop out of society, but to be prepared in case the future turns out like something out of “An Inconvenient Truth,” if not “Mad Max.”
“I’m not a gun-nut, camo-wearing skinhead. I don’t even hunt or fish,” said Bill Marcom, 53, a construction executive in Dallas.
Still, motivated by a belief that the credit crunch and a bursting housing bubble might spark widespread economic chaos — “the Greater Depression,” as he put it — Mr. Marcom began to take measures to prepare for the unknown over the last few years: buying old silver coins to use as currency; buying G.P.S. units, a satellite telephone and a hydroponic kit; and building a simple cabin in a remote West Texas desert.
“If all these planets line up and things do get really bad,” Mr. Marcom said, “those who have not prepared will be trapped in the city with thousands of other people needing food and propane and everything else.”
Unfortunately, however, the numerous warnings being issued to the American people continue to appear to be falling upon ears that can’t hear, eyes that can’t see, and minds that can’t think.
One can only wonder how these once great people have failed to remember the many lessons passed down to them by their ancestors and have descended to the point where they have become virtual slaves to their masters of war.
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1088.htm
I already knew the site and indeed it is weird. Sorcha Faal might blamed for anything except lack of fantasy. This news, I think belong into that category, although the fantasy has not gone as far as to put a name on those Russian officials, leaving them safely anonymous.
why do you waste your time on Internet baloney ?
may Allah be merciful on the two workers , amin.
thuma amin
That is sad...may peace be on there soul.
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