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Posted on 11/18/2005 10:54:10 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
Iran obtained detailed instructions on how to set up the complicated process of enriching uranium, which can used to make nuclear arms, from the black market network run by a Pakistani scientist, the U.N. atomic monitoring agency said Friday.
In a confidential report, the International Atomic Energy Agency also said Iran was not giving inspectors access to a sensitive site that could be used to store equipment indicating whether the military is running a secret nuclear program.
The five-page report seen by The Associated Press was prepared for Thursday's meeting of the IAEA's 35-nation board, which could decide to refer Tehran to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions for violating an international nuclear arms control treaty.
Most board nations are concerned that Iran has resumed uranium conversion -- a precursor to enrichment -- and has refused to meet all IAEA requests about a nuclear program that was clandestine for nearly 20 years until discovered three years ago.
The report said Iran had handed over documents revealing detailed instructions on setting up uranium enrichment that it obtained from the black market network of Abdul Qadeer Khan. The scientist, considered the father of Pakistan's nuclear program, has acknowledged selling secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea.
The designs obtained from the black market show how to cast enriched, natural and depleted uranium metal into a spherical form, the agency said. Diplomats accredited to the agency said that could indicate a design for the core of a nuclear weapon.
Agency officials refused to comment on the implications of the finding. The report said Iran insisted it had not asked for the designs but was given them anyway by members of the nuclear network -- something an official close to the agency said the IAEA was still investigating.
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Thank you, AQ Khan and General Musharraf. Time to send some more money and F-16s Pakistan's way. With friends like this...
Yea, well that would depend on what the meaning of "obtain" is? LOL
The CIA should snuff AQ Kahn as a warning to other mooses thinking of the same gambit.
As Emeral would say "BAM!"
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Was Musharraf aware of this? When?
We need to export some of our maggot-infested, tree-hugging, earth first, queeny long-haired anti-nuke protesters over there to hold up signs in farsi and stop traffic. How do you stop a donkey? Hand signals?
you forgot the guy to hold the bomb. (they always like to hold on to their bombs... be culturally sensitive next time, ok?
Well it's a darn good thing that the UN is writing down who's handing out nuclear secrets. I feel safer already!
I say let them taste our recipe... grrrr...
This is way overdone and overrated. Any college physics student has the basic knowledge. The mystery was over in 1945.
Was the top general in the Pakistani military aware that the man heading up the military's nuclear program was selling nuclear secrets to other nations in exchange for cash and ballistic missile technology needed to deploy Pakistan's nuclear weapons?
Yes, of course he was. AQ Khan traded nuclear secrets to North Korea and Iran for years with the knowledge and approval of the Pakistani military.
Amazing how all these confidential reports seem to be leaking into the press pool somehow. Why would anyone risk their hide obtaining intelligence in this environment?
I suggest that we give them a close up - really close up - demonstration of how nuclear weapons work and their effects.
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