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· For Immediate Release—December 27, 2001

Urgent: Threat Advisory

Pakistan-India Escalation Towards Full Scale Nuclear Conflict :

Endangers Troops, Threatens US Mainland & Population

Imran Anwar Warns Of Serious Nuclear Catastrophe Risk For World Population -

Attacks on US Troops Abroad, Failure of War on Terrorism, Other Risks

Heron Pointe, NY, December 27, 2001: Imran Anwar, noted commentator, analyst and expert on the Pakistan-India conflict, Chairman of the Modern & Moderate Muslims Movement, and President of Islamic Media Response & Action Network, ( www.imran.com ) warned that the worsening situation between Pakistan and India was putting the US population and homeland, as well as the rest of the world, at grave risk of a nuclear holocaust. He called upon President Bush, the US Government and the global community to immediately intervene and prevent the Pakistan-India conflict from escalating into an armed nuclear conflict. If unchecked, in addition to the regional use of nuclear weapons, it will definitely allow terrorists to obtain nuclear weapons for use against the US or any other nation later – independent of the outcome of the Pakistan-India conflict.

“Even though the conflict between India and Pakistan is thousands of miles away, we have never been at greater risk of a subsequent nuclear catastrophe here in the US,” Anwar stated. “If we do not immediately help de-escalate the situation, we may pay a nuclear price on the US mainland. It is essential that we work to ensure an immediate, peaceful UN resolutions-based solution to the Kashmir problem, at the heart of this conflict,” he added.

According to Imran Anwar, there were several distinct possibilities of this leading to disaster. These are threats individually distinct and possible in any combination.

These specific threats and risks include:

1. Pakistan has no choice but to start its defense with the nuclear option in the event of an attack by India. It cannot afford to risk a pre-emptive Indian attack, conventional or nuclear, neutralizing its nuclear capabilities. It will have to assume the worst – resulting in an uncontrolled escalation into full-scale nuclear war, with the ensuing destruction and chaos playing towards a global catastrophe.

2. Pakistan is being forced to physically move its nuclear assets to different locations to ensure their security. This is essential for them, but there is a serious risk of at least one or more of these weapons being hijacked and falling into the hands of terrorists, which could then be eventually used against ANY country, including the US population in the days to come.

3. Pakistan’s military and its population understand that the US-Pakistan relationship is tenuous at best. They still fear that the US will NOT stand by Pakistan and that a US-Israel-India co-conspiracy to neutralize Pakistan’s “Islamic Bomb” is extremely possible. This will make ANY and ALL US personnel in that region suspect in the eyes of the Pakistanis, endangering these troops even further.

4. Even if armed conflict is avoided, escalating tensions will derail the Pakistani support for the War in Afghanistan - as it shifts attention to the border with India. It will be impossible for the US and the Coalition to weed out Al-Qaeda, and to arrest escaping Taliban, if the Pakistani forces are not manning the Afghan borders.

5. Pakistan may have no choice but to ask the US and Allies to leave Pakistani soil (rather than leaving them in control of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, which is also the region where Pakistan’s nuclear facilities are situated. This will mean an end to all progress made in Afghanistan as the Taliban and Al-Qaeda will escape into Pakistan, mingle with the population, and rise as a bigger threat globally.

In answer to a question, Imran Anwar summed up his fears by saying, “We in the US may feel we are not directly impacted even if Pakistan and India start a nuclear war. The truth is, we can almost be guaranteed that in such a confusion-filled scenario, at least some nuclear weapons will find their way into the US - for worst acts of retaliation and terrorism than we can imagine.”