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http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1065561/posts "Pakistan: Nuke Scientists Leaked Secrets"
Guardian ^ | 1/26/04 | Matthew Pennington
Posted on 01/26/2004 10:04:52 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's government on Monday made its clearest public statement yet that scientists of its secretive nuclear weapons program leaked technology and would face legal action.
The government said its two-month probe into allegations of nuclear technology proliferation to Iran and Libya was near completion.
``One or two people acted in an irresponsible manner for personal profit. Money is involved in the matter. I am not naming any scientist,'' Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told a news conference in the capital, Islamabad.
Ahmed, the top government spokesman, made the comments amid fevered speculation that leading scientists will face prosecution.
Pakistan began its probe into its nuclear program and possible proliferation to Iran in late November after admissions made by Tehran to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog. Allegations also have surfaced that Pakistani technology spread to Libya and North Korea as well.
Pakistan's government denies it authorized any transfers of weapons technology to other countries, but says individuals may have done so for their own profit.
Ahmed said three scientists and four security officials of the Khan Research Laboratories were still detained and that questioning would wind up within days.
Media reports have identified the key suspects as the lab's former director-general Dr. Mohammed Farooq, held for nearly two months, and the lab's founder, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, long regarded as a national hero.
Khan has not been detained, but an acquaintance has said he is confined to Islamabad and has been questioned many times. Ahmed said Monday that Khan wasn't under any restrictions.
Investigators are tracking the bank accounts of some scientists, and a Pakistani newspaper report Sunday said they had found accounts of two scientists with millions of U.S. dollars in transactions tied to the sale of nuclear technology to Iran. The report did not name the scientists."