Posted on 05/31/2008 7:05:56 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, on a state visit to North Korea in 1993, smuggled in critical data on uranium enrichment -- a route to making a nuclear weapon -- to help facilitate a missile deal with Pyongyang, according to a new book by a journalist who knew the slain politician well.
The assertion is based on conversations that the author, Shyam Bhatia, had with Bhutto in 2003, in which she said she would tell him a secret "so significant that I had to promise never to reveal it, at least not during her lifetime," Bhatia writes in "Goodbye, Shahzadi," which was published in India last month.
Bhutto was slain in December while campaigning to win back the prime minister's post.
The account, if verified, could advance the timeline for North Korea's interest in uranium enrichment. David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a research organization on nuclear weapons programs, said the assertion "makes sense," because there were signs of "funny procurements" in the late 1980s by North Korea that suggested a nascent effort to assemble an uranium enrichment project.
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Good response.
Esp. The Ceausescus.
Thanks.
Why would Premiere of Pakistan, tell the most devastating information such as supplying Nuclear Secrets to a State Sponsor of Terrorism and thus risking her own Government’s support from US and her own Country, to an INDIAN journalist?
Anyone with half a brain should figure out that this is India’s attempt to bring heat on Pakistan and try to sour their relationship with US.
If true, she deserves the death penalty.
“Which brings up another question I’ve been thinking about, has political assassination ever achieved positive results or has it always been disastrous?”
Good answers by the other comment. The only positive assassination I could think of was McKinley’s—if you think Teddy Roosevelt was a better President than McKinley would have been.
Some might argue that.
A dead Muslim? You decide.
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