Posted on 01/03/2005 7:33:57 PM PST by Saberwielder
Exclusive: Nuke trader Khan gave major boost to Arab state
Days after former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy expressed fears that Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia might have acquired some kind of nuclear capability via an illicit weapons trafficking network run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the chief architect of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, Israeli military sources have told The Jerusalem Post that, thanks to Khan, one of those three Arab states now has the potential to achieve a "significant nuclear leap."
The sources said that Israel is aware of Khan's contacts with all three countries, but that he had provided to one of them expertise and material to manufacture nuclear bombs. They would not specify which country.
The sources also spoke of an assessment in the IDF that Arab terrorist organizations are stepping up their efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear bombs.
They noted that there is now evidence of increased debate as to whether Islamic law could allow for the deaths of Muslims as part of the price when tens of millions of heathens are killed a debate whose very nature, the sources said, implies that thought is being given to the notion of using weapons of mass destruction.
In an interview with the Post last week, former Mossad chief and national security adviser Halevy spoke of his concerns, which he stressed did not derive from any recent access to classified material, that Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt might have acquired nuclear parts from Khan.
Khan had been running a black market in nuclear proliferation across the Middle East. According to a New York Times article last week, US intelligence and International Atomic Energy Association agents are working to untangle Khan's network. Investigators say he visited 18 countries, including Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, on what they believe were business trips, either to buy materials like uranium ore or to sell atomic goods, before he was arrested.
Khan also divulged centrifuge technology and provided Libya with a design for nuclear bombs, the Times article said. But crucial questions about the extent of Khan's proliferation activities have remained unanswered because Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf pardoned him and has refused to allow him to be questioned directly by the CIA.
This Khan guy is a world criminal for helping to spread such deadly technology around. I guess if we did not need Pakistan to chase Bin Laden, we would have applied more pressure on them to jail him.
David Horowitz has an interview w/Halevy on his website this week.
Let's see. If it was Syria, then you can bet Iran has the info, too due to Hezbollah. Also, if Syria, then the PLO has the info. If it was Saudi Arabia, well, that's a heckuva mess. There heinous royal family (and its vibrant support of islamofascism in an attempt to buy off the nuts) is on shakey ground. If it was Egypt, then Islamic Jihad has the info. Any way you slice it, this is not a good thing.
This Khan guy is a world criminal for helping to spread such deadly technology around.
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He and Clinton must be good friends. Birds of a feather...
Khan!!!!!!!!!!! (have at it trekkies!)
I agree. The Khan guy is also helped along by communist China. The US needs to send a message to the whole arab world that any use of nuclear or radiological weapons will result in the nuclear destruction of mecca, medina and all other holy sites.
Why hasn't the international criminal court prosecuted Khan? Answer: because it's being saved to prosecute Americans.
you are exactly right and he is revered in Pakistan. It was totally political to let them handle it as they saw fit which of course was to pardon him.....if he is still alive after our use for Pakistan, he won't be for long I bet
Why hasn't the international criminal court prosecuted Khan? Answer: because it's being saved to prosecute Americans.
Let the jihad monkeys know that thermonuclear trumps nuclear.
Khan is just a pawn in a much bigger game-for common sense sake,how can ONE CIVILIAN have so much access to a nuclear programme run by the military & Sell all this without the military knowing???How can he commandeer Pakistani C-130s to fly all the way to North Korea to deliver nuke tech??
Khan is being made a scapegoat to save the Pakistani government's backside.The "N-Blackmarket" is a convinient excuse which will be palatable for the terrified west.
You've got that right, there's many nations involved in this thing bigtime. I just hope we have the guts to take them out after the finally set off some nukes in Europe/USA
KHAAAAAAN! KIIIIIIIIIRRRK!
This is part of the run-up to the next (and probably last) Arab-Israeli war, which will happen in the next year or two.
Israel is going to strike first, against Syria, in Lebanon and on other targets. Syrian offensive capability will be diminished, and most of the justification (ample) is Syrian support for the terrorist groups operating out of Syria and Lebanon. But the possibility of Syrian nuke capability may also enter into it.
This will happen after the elections, in which Sharon comes out with a Likud majority.
If Israel delays, it will face a repeat of the 1973 simultaneous attacks by Syria and Egypt, without the Sinai buffer zone in the south, and complicated by heavily armed PLO groups out of Gaza and internal to Israel.
bttt
A few questions for you:
Saberwielder: Nuke trader Khan gave major boost to Arab state
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--Boot Hill
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