If this is true.........
....This month, after a two-month investigation, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, 67, known as the brain behind Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, the "Islamic bomb," went on his country's television to confess and apologize. He had for the past 20 years, given and sold nuclear secrets, highly damaging to the United States, to Libya, Iran and North Korea. He said no army general or politician had authorized his efforts and that he was sorry for having done this. He expressed his gratitude to President Pervez Musharraf for the full pardon that he received.
The next day, Talbott was interviewed by Siddharth Varadarajan for "The Times of India." "No one who was involved in the Clinton administration's policies at the time is surprised," he babbled. "We certainly knew about A.Q. Khan's links to North Korea, his trips elsewhere. This was no surprise."
Having admitted to Bill Clinton knowing about this serious threat to America's security, Talbott continued with a lame explanation that they had hoped to use this as leverage to persuade Pakistan to sign a treaty on export controls of nuclear material.
Nothing was done by the Clinton administration to staunch the flow of information from Pakistan to other Islamic states -- as long as they could pay. Deals were done by Pakistan's presidents with Libya, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Proliferation anyone?....
....But, of course, Abdul's nuclear black market routes are known only to a few smugglers. Many now know that much of his financing came from the Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI) in Dubai, whose scandals involved our very own Democrats from Carter to Clinton, with starring roles taken by Burt Lance, Clark Clifford and Robert Altman.....
....'Insurance' in the U.K.
Khan gets to keep his money, his hotels and his pardon. Not because President Musharraf wanted to allow him a free pass, but because his daughter, Dina, lives in England with a British husband, a casefull of documents and a video giving the names of Pakistani generals and politicians who were complicit. She also has her father's instructions as to how and when these papers should be released.
According to sources in Islamabad, these papers document the involvement of high-ranking military officers, including General Musharraf and America's "friends" in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. It seems that the only Pakistani politician not to be involved with the Islamic bomb is Benazir Bhutto, who knew nothing until briefed by the CIA when visiting Bill Clinton.....
Pittsburg Tribune
Sunday, February 15, 2004
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