AQ Khan transferred centrifuges to N Korea: Musharraf

[Roland99]

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13924496

Islamabad: Giving details of disgraced scientist AQ Khan's clandestine nuclear transfers for the first time, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said the country's top atomic expert had provided North Korea with centrifuges and their designs.

"Yes, he passed centrifuges - parts and complete. I do not exactly remember the number," Musharraf told Japan's Kyodo news agency, but played down the roles these transfers had played in North Korea's bid to acquire nuclear weapons capability.

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Musharraf said Khan could not have been of immense help to North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme because his laboratory was engaged in uranium enrichment and not in other steps needed to make a nuclear bomb such as conversion of uranium into gas and development of trigger mechanism and delivery system.

"So if North Korea has made a bomb ... Dr AQ Khan's part is only enriching the uranium to weapons grade. He does not know about making the bomb, he does not know about the trigger mechanism, he does not know about the delivery system," the President said.

Yeah...those trigger mechanisms and delivery systems are just so lethal without uranium.

:eyes:

[peacetalksforall]

1. Sounds like something might be breaking on other fronts. For the full

meaning and new questions - enter CHENEY KHAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS PAKISTAN into any search engine. Read how Cheney's been involved with Khan for many, many years.

[Roland99]

2. Job security for his buddies in the military-industrial complex?

Unending warfare?

[blm]

3. Exactly...this is what BCCI was all about and what Plame was likely

involved with in her work to uncover proliferation.

EVERYTHING is rooted in BCCI. Everything.

[seemslikeadream]

4. CHENEY KHAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS PAKISTAN

[Roland99]

6. China and Westinghouse in the middle of it?

http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article1.html


I wonder how Cheney and his cronies will fare, financially, given deals like that and in past deals with China, Pakistan, etc.?

[fujiyama]

9. Interesting article

Doesn't speak too highly of the Clinton administration either on its dealings with China.

I wonder what the workers at the Westinhouse plant in Monroeville would feel if they realized they were building reactors for a Chinese company that gives nuclear material to Iran and Pakistan.

Cheney is obviously nothing but a worthless traitor, just like Rove - he'd do anything for a few bucks.

[donkeyotay]

7. fascinating topic

here's one of the links yielded by that search:

Sibel Edmonds' spring 2005 offensive
FBI shields Pakistan/Turkey nuclear weapons development, drug trade, Cheney, Rumsfeld
By John Stanton
Online Journal Contributing Writer

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Against the backdrop of the USA versus USSR Cold War, and the Iran versus Iraq war—US officials like Cheney and Rumsfeld—and those operating in and out of government, (and their counterparts in Pakistan and Turkey) took a Pontius Pilate approach to Pakistan's black market acquisition of nuclear weapons components, as well as Turkey's complicity in helping that cause through drug trade profits, to include the illicit manufacture of parts essential to a nuclear weapon. According to Anwar Iqbal of UPI (October 2004), Turkish workshops "made the centrifuge motor and frequency converters used to drive the motor and spin the rotor to high speeds. These workshops imported subcomponents from Europe and elsewhere, and they assembled these centrifuge items in Turkey. Under false end-user certificates, the components were then shipped to Dubai . . ."

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/030905Stanton/030905stanton.html

[Roland99]

8. The U.S. has been using Pakistan and ignoring it's terrorist appeasement

for decades.

* should have invaded Pakistan instead of Afghanistan and just made it USA East. Seems like that would have solved a lot of the need of keeping Cheney's/Rumsfeld's actions covert. Just take it all over.

[fujiyama]

10. You're absolutely right

Almost every major terrorist attack in the last ten years has led back to one country, and it wasn't Iraq.

[anotherdrew]

5. IF anyone belongs at gitmo its AQ Khan

actually I woudn't even wish it on him. Still, would be nice to know what the hell was up with this guy, since he's been on the CIAs radar for about 30 years...

[wicket]

11. kick

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