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Father of Pakistan's Bomb Stands Defiant
Washington Post ^ | Thursday, June 5, 2008 | Candace Rondeaux

Posted on 06/05/2008 12:23:09 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The garden is in full bloom at Abdul Qadeer Khan's house. A lazy summer haze has settled over his manse, and at the small police substation across the way, several men chitchatted amiably on a recent day, barely glancing at the upscale villa that for the past four years has been part prison, part palatial refuge for the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb.

Until very recently, Khan has been virtually cut off from the world -- banished to house arrest by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf after admitting in a national television broadcast in 2004 to selling nuclear weapons-making technology and know-how to Iran, North Korea and Libya. But as Pakistan marked the 10th anniversary of its first nuclear bomb test last week, Khan, 72, publicly disavowed his confession, telling reporters that it was coerced.

"The people who were advising me to do this said, 'No one will believe it. This statement has no legal value. Everyone knows you are a national hero,' " Khan said this week in a telephone interview with The Washington Post.

Pakistan has been under pressure for years to give the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency access to Khan. So far, the government has refused... ...

His career in nuclear espionage began shortly after he was hired, three years after Pakistan was routed in a war with India over what is now Bangladesh in 1971.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abdulqadeerkhan; aqkhan; india; korea; missile; nuclear; nuclearblackmarket; pakistan

1 posted on 06/05/2008 12:23:09 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
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To: CarrotAndStick
In a sane world — this miscreant would already have been excreted by the worms who devoured him.
2 posted on 06/05/2008 12:26:02 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: CarrotAndStick

This pos should have had an “accident” some time ago.


3 posted on 06/05/2008 2:12:13 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: CarrotAndStick

HAHAHAHAHA!


4 posted on 06/05/2008 11:13:56 AM PDT by swarthyguy (Osama Freedom Day: 2500 or so since September 11 2001! That's SIX +years, Dubya.)
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To: CarrotAndStick

Judging by the response to this thread.... no one here is interested in this. The whole consipracy is ignored by the West and pakistan has been forgiven.


5 posted on 06/09/2008 10:33:44 PM PDT by Arjun (Skepticism is good. It keeps you alive.)
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