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Pakistan insists Khan network dismantled
AP on Yahoo ^ | 2/8/09 | Asif Shahazad - ap

Posted on 02/07/2009 10:40:45 AM PST by NormsRevenge

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan sought to allay U.S. concern about the freedom of notorious nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, insisting Saturday that his network which allegedly supplied Iran and North Korea with atomic technology has been probed and dismantled and cannot rise again.

Khan, feted in Pakistan for his key role in making it a nuclear weapons state, emerged from five years of de facto house arrest on Friday after a court declared him a "free citizen" subject to a secret agreement with the government.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abdulqadeerkhan; dismantled; khan; network; nuclearblackmarket; pakistan; proliferation

1 posted on 02/07/2009 10:40:45 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

“free citizen”

What? Did they Cap the Scumbag?


2 posted on 02/07/2009 11:12:38 AM PST by Cheetahcat (Osamabama the Wright kind of Racist!)
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To: NormsRevenge

I would not trust a single word coming out of Pakistan.

They have proven themselves to me that they have mastered the art of double talk and double-dealing.


3 posted on 02/07/2009 12:00:53 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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