 New allegations made on Sunday by the New York Times say that Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan sold $100 million worth of nuclear gear to Libya and as a "sweetener" included blueprints for a 10-kiloton nuclear bomb. The report says intelligence officials had watched Dr Khan, "for years", though it fails to say why they waited, "for years", before exposing his alleged network.
| I dunno. Ask Madelain Albright... |
US experts were unsure who else had those designs besides Libya. They were not certain if the designs had also been passed on to Iran, Syria or the Al Qaeda organisation. Experts from the US and the IAEA are said to have quarrelled over who should have control over the blueprints and after, "hours of tense negotiation, agreement was reached to keep it in a vault at the Energy Department in Washington, but under IAEA seal." According to the newspaper, nearly a year after Dr Khan's arrest, "secrets of his nuclear black market continue to uncoil, revealing a vast global enterprise."
| We're talkin' major International Man of Mystery here... |
| And a certain lack of cooperation by multiple peoples ... |
"The breadth of the operation was particularly surprising to some American intelligence officials because they had had Dr Khan under surveillance for nearly three decades, since he began assembling components for Pakistan's bomb, but apparently missed crucial transactions with countries like Iran and North Korea," added the report.
| That's because he knew that we knew that he knew that we knew... |
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