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Nuke trader gave boost to ME state
Jerusalem Post ^ | January 4, 2005 | ARIEH O'SULLIVAN

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abdulqadeerkhan; aqkhan; atomic; egypt; ephraimhalevy; iran; israel; kaboom; kahn; khan; libya; mossad; musharraf; nuclear; nuclearblackmarket; nukes; pakistan; proliferation; saudi
We need to get access to AQKhan before he dies of a "massive heart attack"!
1 posted on 01/03/2005 7:33:58 PM PST by Saberwielder
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To: Saberwielder

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.


2 posted on 01/03/2005 7:41:00 PM PST by conservlib
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To: Saberwielder

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.


3 posted on 01/03/2005 7:52:17 PM PST by Endeavor
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To: conservlib

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...


4 posted on 01/03/2005 7:55:27 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Saberwielder

Khan!!!!!!!!!!! (have at it trekkies!)


5 posted on 01/03/2005 7:58:20 PM PST by isom35
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To: conservlib

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.


6 posted on 01/03/2005 8:02:29 PM PST by Paul_Denton
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To: EagleUSA

Why hasn't the international criminal court prosecuted Khan? Answer: because it's being saved to prosecute Americans.


7 posted on 01/03/2005 8:20:17 PM PST by spyone
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To: conservlib

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


8 posted on 01/03/2005 8:20:37 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: EagleUSA

Why hasn't the international criminal court prosecuted Khan? Answer: because it's being saved to prosecute Americans.


9 posted on 01/03/2005 8:25:28 PM PST by spyone
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To: Endeavor

Let the jihad monkeys know that thermonuclear trumps nuclear.


10 posted on 01/03/2005 8:37:38 PM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: conservlib; NorCalRepub

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.


11 posted on 01/03/2005 8:40:34 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

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


12 posted on 01/03/2005 8:43:51 PM PST by Kornev
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To: Saberwielder
"before he was arrested."

Right.

"Pervez Musharraf pardoned him and has refused to allow him to be questioned directly by the CIA."

Pakistan is our friend. Say it again and again.
13 posted on 01/03/2005 9:14:25 PM PST by JSteff
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To: isom35

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KHAAAAAAN!                                                            KIIIIIIIIIRRRK!

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14 posted on 01/03/2005 9:57:16 PM PST by RebelTex (Freedom is everyone's right - and everyone's responsibility!)
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To: Saberwielder

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.


15 posted on 01/03/2005 10:47:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv (the US population in the year 2100 will exceed a billion, perhaps even three billion.)
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To: RebelTex

bttt


16 posted on 01/04/2005 7:08:46 AM PST by RebelTex (Freedom is everyone's right - and everyone's responsibility!)
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To: Saberwielder
“We need to get access to AQKhan before he dies of a 'massive heart attack'!”   --Saberwielder at #1

A few questions for you:

  1. What makes you so sure that our intelligence services haven't had our private chat with Dr. Khan?
  2. Why do you spend so much time ringing your hands over the AQKhan affair, when there is no evidence that he remains involved in nuclear proliferation?
  3. As long as Pakistani nuclear proliferation has ceased, why are you concerned with who may have aided and abetted Dr. Khan?
--Boot Hill
17 posted on 01/04/2005 1:34:15 PM PST by Boot Hill (Candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo, candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo!!!)
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To: Saberwielder
Why do you continue to fraudulently change the titles to articles, in violation of forum rules, to suit your anti-Musharraf, anti-Pakistan, anti-Bush agenda? This is the second time I've seen you do this in recent days. You brand yourself as dishonest.

Saberwielder:   “Nuke trader Khan gave major boost to Arab state”

Jerusalem Post:   “Nuke trader gave boost to ME state”

--Boot Hill

18 posted on 01/04/2005 1:57:16 PM PST by Boot Hill (Candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo, candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo!!!)
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