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2004-02-09 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2004-02-09 12:03:34 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 BTW The nuclear scientists who went to Afghanistan to hang with Osama, Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood and Abdul Majeed, were from Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), and not AQ Khan's organisation.
Hopefully PAEC will receive as much scrutiny as the Khan Research Laboratory has.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2004-2-9 12:50:10 AM|| 2004-2-9 12:50:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Looks like Khan left an expensive upgrade path for his customers.

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-9 7:26:00 AM|| 2004-2-9 7:26:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like Khan picked up the German method of gas-centrifuge distillation of uraniun while in Holland. Until the run up to the Iraq invasion I, like many other Americans, thought that a reactor was required to produce a nuclear bomb.

Obviously, Sadaam turned down Khan's proposal because he had already purchased the centrifuge technology directly from Germany.

Even today, I think that many Americans fail to realize that the proliferation of cetrifuge technology has made the world vastly more dangerous. Where before we could follow a containment strategy and bomb the reactor before it goes operational, now we are forced into preemption. Khan has done Ummah no service.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-2-9 7:52:31 AM|| 2004-2-9 7:52:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#4
the blueprints discovered in Libya were wrapped in plastic bags from an Islamabad dry cleaner.

On the bottom of the bag was a page from a notepad:

From the Desk of Abdul Qadeer Khan.

Memo to self: Pick up dry cleaning on the way from the laboratory to the Libyan embassy.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-2-9 9:00:12 AM|| 2004-2-9 9:00:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Them Pakis can't be too thrilled at all this bad publicity.... :)

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-2-9 10:34:11 AM|| 2004-2-9 10:34:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Lots of disinformation being spread. D'ya think the black turbans and dear leader are going through the old packing bags to see what they got? "It's a match. We all used the same laundry!" Bwhahahahah!!!

AQK was a double agent, handled by a dry cleaner in Islamabad. Way-to-go CIA, and you wonder why we seem to know so much!

Posted by john 2004-2-9 1:55:08 PM|| 2004-2-9 1:55:08 PM|| Front Page Top

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