[MJY1288]

Yup, just what I was thinking. Joe Wilson is a fraud, he had no intentions to investigate anything, he was there so he could say he was there.

There is gonna be some serious egg on some prominent faces before long

[piasa]

You know, maybe Joe Wilson was helping a pakistani nuclear scientist and a group of people from the Pakistani nuclear commission dig wells for poor villagers in Mali. :-)

We went three times. There is a village there, people are very poor there, we went to help them. We dug a well that's why we went there. There are other villages nearby, you will get more information if you go there. There is a desert there. There is an ancient islamic library there. Once upon a time it was a big civilisation."- Khan's visit to Timbuktu was to prospect for uranium - dissident London |By Shyam Bhatia, Correspondent | 19-02-2004 Gulf News, Feb 19, 2004

FEBRUARY 1999 : (SIDDIQUI, DR. QADEER KHAN, CHIEF SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR DR. HASHMI, GENERAL TAJWAR, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF SECURITY OF PAKISTAN'S KRL NUCLEAR LABORATORIES, AND OTHER ASSORTED OFFICIALS OF PAKISTAN'S ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION TRAVEL TO TIMBUKTU VIA SUDAN, NIGERIA, NIGER AND CHAD) One year later in February 1999 Siddiqui again agreed to accompany a Khan-led group back to Timbuktu. This time Khan was accompanied by his chief scientific adviser, Dr Fakhrul Hasan Hashmi, Brigadier Tajwar, director General of Security at KRL and other senior officials of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission. This time the group flew via Sudan, Nigeria, Niger and Chad. - 'A Q Khan (Pakistani nuke scientist) visited Timbuktu for uranium' rediff.com ^ | February 17, 2004 19:12 IST | Shyam Bhatia in London

FEBRUARY 2000 : (NIGER : KHAN'S GROUP IS TREATED TO DINNER IN KHAN'S HONOR IN THE CAPITAL OF NIGER, NIAMEY, BY AMBASSADOR NISAR) In February 2000 Siddiqui describes how 'we were again air borne for Timbuktu', this time from Dubai to Khartoum, then to Niamey, capital of Niger, where ambassador Brigadier Nisar, hosted a dinner in honour of Khan. "Niger has big uranium deposits," Siddiqui notes without further comment. - 'A Q Khan (Pakistani nuke scientist) visited Timbuktu for uranium' rediff.com ^ | February 17, 2004 19:12 IST | Shyam Bhatia in London

FEBRUARY 29, 2000 : (KHAN'S GROUP GOES BACK TO DUBAI AFTER WHIRLWIND AFRICA TOUR) On February 29, 2000 the group returned back to Dubai after visiting 10 African cities.- 'A Q Khan (Pakistani nuke scientist) visited Timbuktu for uranium' rediff.com ^ | February 17, 2004 19:12 IST | Shyam Bhatia in London