To: bentway who wrote (632796 ) 10/21/2011 5:05:18 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to No, it wasn't. Kadaffy's abandonment of the program revealed A Q Khan's proliferation work. The revelation led the debriefing of Abdul Qadeer Khan — Pakistan's one of senior and top scientist . In 2004,the United States, along with IAEA officials and Interpol, led the arrest of Libyan nuclear program's former head Friedrich Tinner Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee , United States . In March 2004, over 1,000 additional centrifuge and missile parts were shipped out of Libya.On January 2004, Khan was officially summoned for a debriefing on his suspicious activities in other countries after the United States provided evidences to the Pakistan Government , and confessed it a month later .[3] It emerged in August 2003, that Dr. Khan had offered to sell sensitive designs of centrifuge technology to Iran as early as 1989 . [39] Iranian government United States nuclear program [39] [39] [39] [39] Pak-1' s, the model that Khan developed in the early 1980s. [39] In December 2003, two senior staff members at Khan Labs were arrested on suspicion of having sold centrifuge technology to the Iranians . [39 JAG Branch [39] Khan and Mohammed Farooq, a high-ranking manager at KRL, had provided unauthorized technical assistance to Iran in the late 1980s and early 1990s, allegedly in exchange for tens of millions of dollars. [ 39]Pakistan Army Chief of Army Staff Mirza Aslam Beg [39] Wall Street Journal quoted U.S. government officials as saying that Khan had told the investigators that General Beg had authorized the transfers to Iran. [41] Libya its undisclosed nuclear program Libyan government [39] U.S. officials who visited the Libyan uranium enrichment plants reported that the gas centrifuges used there were very similar to the Iranian machines. [39] [39] Interpol arrested three Swiss nuclear scientists who were Khan's close associates. [39 ]Khan had signed a confession indicating that he had provided Iran, Libya, and North Korea with designs and centrifuge technology to aid in nuclear weapons programs, and said that the government had not been complicit in the proliferation activities. The Pakistan Government officials who made the announcement said that Khan had admitted to transferring centrifuge technology and information to Iran between 1989 and 1991, to North Korea and Libya between 1991 and 1997 (U.S. officials at the time maintained that transfers had continued with Libya until 2003), and additional technology to North Korea up until 2000. [45] On 4 February 2004, Khan appeared on state's controlled Pakistan Television (PTV) and confessed to running a proliferation ring where his confession was on-aired by Pakistan's state and private television stations
