Hunt for Links in Clandestine Nuclear Chain Widening to Japan, Africa, Diplomats Say

ap ^ | 2/5/04 | George Jahn

[swarthyguy]

One of the reports I read had Khan building a mansion in Timbultu; didn't make sense but the SAfrican connection you provide makes sense of his being around Southern Africa.

About the only place Khan didn't go was Disneyland.

[Shermy]

The silence regarding Riyadh is significant, IMO.

Let's see, the Ames anthrax strain, in it's virulent form, is supposedly limited to US and British Govt facilities...except for one private company, Bioport, owned partly by Saudis, head by a Lebanese based in Jeddah, and Saudi wanted protection from Iraqi anthrax...besides vaccines could they've made something more???

[Shermy]

Did you see where it was revealed Khan's daughter Dina lives in Baghdad?

I kid you not.

[swarthyguy]

>>, Bioport,

BettyJo has some great info on the whole BioMed Saudi etc connection.

I hope our SF people are going to track down Khan's daughter. I'd have thought she'd be in Dubai or Qatar or Abu Dhabi instead of Baghdad.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[piasa]

Did you see where it was revealed Khan's daughter Dina lives in Baghdad?

No, I didn't. I'm going to plug 'Dina' into the keywords search and see if I can catch up.

[Shermy]

Dina in Baghdad

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/477958.cms

[swarthyguy]

Wonder if US authorities were aware she was in Baghad?

The Indians should have. Did the Israelis?

Since how long? Why? Who with?

[txhurl]

I almost added 'WWIII" as a keyword but knock on wood. This is spooky.

[swarthyguy]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=488765

The Mysterious World of Pakistan's Dr. Strangelove.

Greaat piece.

A little overkill, perhaps, but what a wild saga. Naming a hotel after your wife!

[blam]

Good link thanks. We can't post articles from the Independent anymore.

[swarthyguy]

They can't get their bleedin' knickers in a twist about links. It'd be nice if we could just post one para snips, as a compromise.

[blam]

"They can't get their bleedin' knickers in a twist about links. It'd be nice if we could just post one para snips, as a compromise."

I think links are okay. I notice that JimRob went through my bookmarks and deleted all articles from the Independent.

[piasa]

I don't know, but here's a snip of Sharon's info on Libyan WND and their getting help from Pakistan and North Korea:

SEPTEMBER 2002 : (ISRAEL : SHARON SAYS LIBYA HAS BEEN DEVELOPING NUCLEAR WEAPONS CAPABILITY AND MAY ACQUIRE NUCLEAR WEAPONS BEFORE IRAQ) LIBYA'S Colonel Moammar Khadafy has been secretly developing nuclear-weapons capability and may acquire it before Iraq. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon disclosed this less-than-heartwarming news in interviews before last week's Rosh Hashanah holiday weekend. But he added, "Israel may be the best-prepared country in the world against the danger of a chemical or biological offensive." This was his message to Israeli citizens, who are already discussing on a daily basis the possibility that Saddam Hussein may launch warheads containing smallpox or anthrax at them as a last resort once the Bush administration moves to dethrone him. But the threat of Libya is not well known - in part because Khadafy has tried hard to clean up his act. After being forced, by U.S.-led sanctions, to indirectly admit complicity in the Lockerbie airliner sabotage, the dictator in Tripoli denounced terrorism. He tried to hire a Washington lawyer to get Libya removed from the U.S. list of terror-sponsoring nations. He nearly succeeded - since the State Department during the Clinton administration conveyed discreet messages to then-Israeli-prime-minister Ehud Barak's government that Khadafy had "endorsed Yasser Arafat's peace process." Sharon said a secret weapons effort "is taking place in Iraq, and a similar process is going on in Libya - which probably will turn out to be the first Arab state with weapons of mass destruction." Other countries are helping Khadafy, but the extent of the assistance is not clear, Sharon said. "It may be that there is assistance from Pakistan, as Iran had [in nuclear weapons development]," the prime minister warned. "But for sure, there is assistance from North Korea." - "NOW KHADAFY CLOSING IN ON NUKE CAPABILITY: SHARON," by URI DAN, New York Post , 9/08/02

[swarthyguy]

Too bad. I wish they'd delete the articles but leave the thread in that case.

[Stultis]

"Libya for the most part tried to buy its way into the nuclear club," he said. "It was on its way," to getting everything, he added.

But visiting Libya, shortly after the story of the U.S./Brit breakthrough broke, didn't El Baralie claim that there wasn't really anything much to the Libya's program, and that it was basically a will 'o the wisp? (Hehehe. 'Rat's and Eurocrats are always trying to run ahead of Bush, but when they get there he's already cleaned up the mess and moved on.)

[piasa]

Too bad. I wish they'd delete the articles but leave the thread in that case.

That is a good idea, that way there is at least some record on FR of such articles' existence, since there is so much press manipulation going on. Could it be done?