The controversial “father” of Pakistan’s nuclear program was in Niamey (Niger) on the very same days in which Saddam’s emissaries were present. ...
A recent intelligence lead takes us back to Niger, where Khan was a welcomed guest of the government and where his intermediaries continue to do business: the very same intermediaries who ,in 1999 made a fool of the French Secret Services charged with monitoring – through the multinational Cogema – the uranium mines from which some years before these intermediaries were able to illegally export 1,200 tons of yellow cake (yellow uranium oxide from which gas is extracted to be applied in centrifuges in order to be enriched) to Libya.
The very same Khan – according to official International Atomic Energy Agency data – bought a part of the 450 tons of (uranium) stored in Libya in exchange for arms and petrodollars to finance Islamabad’s nuclear program. ...-—— “Uranium from Niger for the Islamic Atom Bomb,” By Gian Marco Chiocci , il Giornale de Italia , Washington, November 30, 2005 (Translation by Parnasokan .Edited by poster.) ; Original text-in Italian-is at the link: http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=46594
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