More on Pakistani nuclear proliferation:
"Dr. Khan was not working alone. Dr. Khan was part of a process," said Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Vienna-based U.N. agency that is conducting the probe along with U.S. and other Western intelligence agencies. "There were items that were manufactured in other countries. There were items that were assembled in a different country."
Meanwhile, Pakistani officials disclosed that they had launched their own probe of Khan's activities in October after the Bush administration presented what one senior official described as "mind-boggling" evidence that Khan was peddling nuclear technology and expertise to Iran, Libya and North Korea, and had attempted to do the same with Iraq (news - web sites) and Syria.
The evidence included detailed records of Khan's travels to Libya, Iran, North Korea and other nations, along with intercepted phone conversations, financial documents and accounts of meetings with foreign businessmen involved in illicit nuclear sales, the Pakistani officials said.
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Now, I'm not disparaging whatever the CIA found out. It may have been a crucial beginning to the case, and probably was critical leverage in talking to Gaddafi. BUT, it surely doesn't bear comparison to what we know NOW that Gaddafi has come out with his hands up and given up his programs.
And by the strangest of coincidences, Gaddafi only did that after he saw Saddam crawl out of his spider hole. |
