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AQ Khan recants nuclear admission
Daily Times ^

Posted on 06/04/2008 3:41:57 PM PDT by milestogo

AQ Khan recants nuclear admission

WASHINGTON: Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan told the US media on Tuesday that he was not responsible for passing nuclear secrets to Iran and Libya, back-pedalling from his earlier admissions.

In an interview with the McClatchy news organisation, Khan said he had introduced Tripoli and Tehran to Western businesses that provided information on building a nuclear weapons programme. Khan had confessed in February 2004 that he had run a network that passed atomic secrets, equipment and technological advice to Iran, North Korea and Libya over a period of 15 years, a statement he recanted in the interview. He said he had merely given Iran and Libya “small advice” on where to acquire the technology from.

Khan said that the companies who provided the technology to the two regimes were European.

“The Germans, the South Africans and the French all have those drawings. They were the suppliers. You can’t blame me for it. They were selling and making money. Why put the blame on me?” Khan said from his villa in Islamabad, where he remains under house arrest. afp


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abdulqadeerkhan; aqkhan; iran; khan; libya; nkorea; nuclearblackmarket; proliferation

1 posted on 06/04/2008 3:42:00 PM PDT by milestogo
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To: milestogo

A new book claims Bhutto gave NK secrets on an official govt visit.


2 posted on 06/04/2008 3:45:21 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: milestogo

Bhutto Dealt Nuclear Secrets to N. Korea, Book Says

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024233/posts


3 posted on 06/04/2008 4:05:44 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: milestogo

Where is Musharraf ?


4 posted on 06/04/2008 4:07:28 PM PDT by RightWhale (We see the polygons)
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To: milestogo

A Muslim lying?

Who’da thought.


5 posted on 06/04/2008 4:09:01 PM PDT by airborne (LETS GO PENS!!! LETS GO PENS!!! LETS GO PENS!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!)
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To: milestogo
> Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan told the US media...

Geez Louise. I read that name over and over and kept coming up with:

Abdul DaQueer Khan
as in the sentence:
"OK guys, who can hump dis gay camel?"

"Abdul DaQueer Khan!"

(Yes, I realize that's politically incorrect, I guess it's off to the re-education camp for me...)
6 posted on 06/04/2008 5:02:57 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored

“Abdul, you Khan do eet!”


7 posted on 06/04/2008 5:05:24 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Jet Jaguar

A new book claims Bhutto gave NK secrets on an official govt visit.
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I really don’t care which rag headed bas*ard did it but isn’t it typical to BLAME THE DEAD GUY!


8 posted on 06/04/2008 5:33:41 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: Jet Jaguar

A new book claims Bhutto gave NK secrets on an official govt visit.
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I really don’t care which rag headed islamist did it but isn’t it typical to BLAME THE DEAD GUY!


9 posted on 06/04/2008 5:35:12 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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