I think the Musharraf futures market just took a dive.

After all the years of troubles, the bombings, and the two nearly successful assassination attempts, I think the US getting serious about this now says alot about their assessment of Musharraf's future.

U.S. military intelligence officials are urgently assessing how secure Pakistan's nuclear weapons would be in the event President Gen. Pervez Musharraf were replaced as the nation's leader, CNN has learned.....

The United States has full knowledge about the location of Pakistan's nuclear weapons, according to the U.S. assessment.

But the key questions, officials say, are what would happen and who would control the weapons in the hours after any change in government in case Musharraf were killed or overthrown.

(Or maybe they just want that thought out there.)