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To: JPR who wrote (12449)	11/23/2002 7:09:33 PM
From: JPR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

Putin to Bush:Pakis untrustworthy, Junta with nukes Then, turning to Pakistan, Mr. Putin abruptly said: "Now where has Osama bin Laden taken refuge? They say he is somewhere between Afghanistan and Pakistan." Mr. Putin said that while he supported Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, he asked, "What can happen with armies armed with weapons that exist in Pakistan, including weapons of mass destruction?" He added, "We should not forget about this." American diplomats say that Mr. Putin has often expressed doubts about the trustworthiness of Pakistan as an ally, and has referred to the Pakistani military leadership in private conversations as "a junta with nukes." ``Pakistan has weapons of mass destruction and we're not sure they cannot fall into evil hands,'' the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, said after meeting his U. S. counterpart, George W. Bush, in St. Petersburg on Friday. In a perfect marriage of interests, Pakistan provided the North Korea with many of the designs for gas centrifuges and much of the machinery it needs to make highly enriched uranium for the country's latest nuclear weapons project, one intended to put at risk South Korea, Japan and 100,000 American troops in Northeast Asia. Yet in the words of one American official who has reviewed the intelligence, North Korea's drive in the past year to begin full-scale enrichment of uranium uses technology that "has `Made in Pakistan' stamped all over it." They doubt that North Korea will end its effort even if Pakistan cuts off its supplies. A. Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, who had years ago stolen the engineering plans for gas centrifuges from the Netherlands, visited North Korea several times. The visits were always cloaked in secrecy.