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China Close to Sale of 2nd Nuclear Plant to Pakistan, FT Says

March 9 (Bloomberg) -- China is close to selling a second nuclear power plant to Pakistan after they agreed on the technical details for the sale in talks in Beijing last week, the Financial Times reported on its Web site.

The 300-megawatt plant, worth $600 million to $700 million, would be built at Chashma, south of Islamabad, beside the first nuclear power plant China supplied in 1999, the FT said. Pervez Butt, chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, led the delegation that completed the agreement last week, it said.

The deal comes after revelations that Pakistani scientists and nuclear officials, led by Abdul Qadeer Khan, sold nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and possibly North Korea, the FT said. Pakistani officials said safeguards for the two reactors at Chashma would ensure they were used only for generating electricity, it said.

China is Pakistan's most reliable supplier of defense equipment, with other projects including the development of the JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft and a port at Gwadar.

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Jonathan Underhill in Wellington at junderhill@bloomberg.net.

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Peter Vercoe at pvercoe@bloomberg.net.

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Where is Voice of Jihad issue 12?

Where is issue number 12 of the Al Qaeda publication Voice of Jihad? That is the question being pondered this weekend by analysts with the Northeast Intelligence Network?

Voice of Jihad is the Al Qaeda internet newsletter that has been published with clockwork regularity for six months now. Normally it brings messages from Al Qaeda leaders, congratulations for successful missions, wills of martyrs, inspirational poetry and writings, and religious commentary from various clerics who are sympathetic to Al Qaeda from a theological standpoint.

A look at the chart of Al Qaeda communications and events at
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/AttackTimeline.htm shows that the magazine has been published consistently every two weeks for several months.

Our analysts are asking the following questions regarding the delay:

1. Are the individuals responsible for publishing this magazine unable to communicate via the internet at this point in time? Are they perhaps in custody, or in deep hiding?

2. Was there a personnel shift, perhaps resulting from a scenario as described in question 1, which has resulted in the new staff taking time to get up to speed, so to speak, on the magazine publication?

3. Did someone just goof?

4. Or, more ominously, is the magazine delayed because they are waiting for an event to occur, so that they can claim credit or issue congratulatory messages?

We will be watching closely for any sign of the release of Voice of Jihad Issue #12.