Five militants held 39 hostages and holed up in Pakistan's army headquarters in Rawalpindi Saturday. The attack began at 11:30 a.m. and started with a group of 8 to 10 militants. Five made it inside the facility. Three of the militants were wearing explosives and two of them successfully blew themselves up. Pakistani forces did capture Dr. Usman who has been implicated in several recent hig-profile bombings.
The fact that the militants got access to the highly guarded facility is worrisome enough. To make matters worse, the army got a warning from the police and apparently blew it off! What may be just as worrisome is the standard response that America is confident in Pakistan's ability to keep it's nukes out of the hands of the militants. Even before the attack on army headquarters, the Pakistani army was gearing up for a new offensive against the militants in the tribal region of South Waziristan. Having embarrassed the army, the militants may have just made the attack imminent. After the latest attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, however, the possibility of militants igniting their own regional armageddon remains a worrisome possibility.
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