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To: kumar who wrote (39900)	8/25/2002 11:35:38 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 281500

earlier article from India Times re: Pak goes shopping for nuclear kit in UK PTI [ SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 2002 10:09:59 AM ] LONDON: Britain has stepped up its surveillance of Pakistani activities in the country following reports that Islamabad has been secretly buying from here equipment for making nuclear weapons. Special high-grade metals have been smuggled out of the country and are believed to have reached an uranium enrichment plant in Kahuta, near Islamabad, a media report said on sunday. The discovery has infuriated the British Foreign office, which had assurances from Pakistan that it was not shopping in Britain for weapons of mass destruction or related equipment. The British Security agency Mi5 is said to have already stepped up its surveillance of Pakistani activities in UK, including diplomats in London involved in the procurement of military equipment, the influential Sunday Times reported. At least one consignment of 47 tons of high-strength aluminium worth 150,000 pounds was sent to Pakistan from a British firm. The material, made to a standard known as 6061 T6, is used to make centrifuges for converting uranium ore to bomb-grade uranium 235. "This is not the kind of aluminium you use for soft drink cans, it has a very limited number of applications," the paper quoted a source. Two people now face prosecution for alleged evasion of export controls. Customs and Excise Officers discovered the aluminium had been secretly shipped to Khan Research Laboratories in Pakistan, which manufactures nuclear weapons. The Mi5 visited the Blackburn-based company that sold the material and warned that Pakistan and other states may try to circumvent an export ban.

To: kumar who wrote (39900)	8/26/2002 12:52:00 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't doubt they are shopping around for centrifuge material... And we should take every step to prevent further proliferation. But unlike Iraq, Pakistan has demonstrated Nuclear capability already (if limited). So the Djinni is already out of the bottle there and countered by India's nukes (which developed them first). And it's pretty clear that Pakistan went Nuke in order to counter India. And the only claim that Iraq can make is that Iran is developing Nukes. But then again, Iran is claiming they are doing it because Iraq is trying to obtain them. Iraq is only the beginning, Imo... But we have to start somewhere and it's as good a place as any to implement the need political and cultural modernization that seem to captivate current Iranian youth, yet are denied to many Arab young people. Hawk