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India-Pakistan
Pakistan suspects nuclear ’greed’
2003-12-23
Pakistan has said a probe into possible nuclear technology transfers to Iran has shown some of its scientists may have been "motivated by greed".
No, you mean they weren’t motivated by their deep religious convictions?
Pakistan launched the investigation following information from Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Khan said: "There are indications certain individuals might have been motivated by personal ambition or greed." Mr Khan insisted that the government had never authorised any transfer.
"Nope, nope, wasn’t us, it was them."
But he stressed that the probe had not yet made a "final determination".
"There may be a bit of wiggle room here, if we can just..."
"Let’s not jump to any conclusions," he told a news conference in the capital, Islamabad. Mr Khan said that only a "very small number" of Pakistan’s scientists were being questioned.
The expendable ones, perhaps?
On Monday, the government said the father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme, Abdul Qadeer Khan, was being questioned. At least two scientists from the country’s top nuclear facility, Khan Research Laboratories, were also debriefed this month. One of them is former director-general Mohammad Farooq, who is still being held.
I guess somebody’s bank account is going to show unauthorized deposits. If not, they will.

Now that IAEA has the evidence, in the form of Iran's technology that just by coincidence happens to ape Pakland's early technology, they have to stop flat-out lying. Plan B seems to involve selling a few people down the river.
Posted by:Steve

#2  Iran is the nut that needs to be cracked. How, dunno. But if a large attack happens here. Targets in Iran should be hit along with other targets.

Remember that whole "death to America" thing wasn't just a meaningless campaign sloagan.
Posted by: Lucky   2003-12-23 11:52:25 AM  

#1  What's this "nuclear greed" crap? Seems to me it's simply plain, run-of-the-mill greed, period.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-12-23 10:47:48 AM  

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