Paging Professor Gregory

By Peter Bergen Here is how I quoted Professor Shaun Gregory’s own words regarding the three supposed attacks on facilities in Pakistan’s nuclear weapons complex over the past two years that he had written about in the current CTC Sentinel: "These have included an attack on the nuclear missile storage facility at Sargodha on November 1, ...

By Peter Bergen

By Peter Bergen

Here is how I quoted Professor Shaun Gregory’s own words regarding the three supposed attacks on facilities in Pakistan’s nuclear weapons complex over the past two years that he had written about in the current CTC Sentinel: "These have included an attack on the nuclear missile storage facility at Sargodha on November 1, 2007, an attack on Pakistan’s nuclear airbase at Kamra by a suicide bomber on December 10, 2007, and perhaps most significantly the August 20, 2008 attack when Pakistani Taliban suicide bombers blew up several entry points to one of the armament complexes at the Wah cantonment, considered one of Pakistan’s main nuclear weapons assembly sites."

Not much ambiguous about these claims, upon which Shuja Nawaz, a leading expert in the world on Pakistan’s national security apparatus, has poured considerable cold water for the AfPak Channel. I find Nawaz’s rebuttal of Gregory to be persuasive, but there is only one person who can clear up this matter and that is Professor Gregory. Paging Professor Gregory.

Peter Bergen is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of The Osama bin Laden I Know.

<p> Peter Bergen, a frequent visitor to Afghanistan since 1993, is author of Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad. </p>

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