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Political operatives at the Democratic National Committee in Washington developed the plan to turn the memorial service for Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone into a political rally, top party sources tell Capitol Hill Blue. The party also urged the Wellstone family to ask Vice President Dick Cheney to not attend the service and concocted the excuse that security for the VP would disrupt the event even though Secret Service security was required for former president Bill Clinton, who was invited and who did attend. Rick Kahn, the Wellstone campaign worker and friend, worked the highly partisan crowd into a frenzy with...

Posted on Fri, Apr. 08, 2005 Pakistani accused of nuke device exportsLARA JAKES JORDANAssociated Press WASHINGTON - A Pakistani businessman illegally exported devices from the United States that could be used to test, develop and detonate nuclear weapons, the government alleged on Friday.A federal indictment against Humayun A. Khan was unsealed along with a guilty plea by his alleged partner, Asher Karni, who admitted routing sophisticated oscilloscopes and high-speed electrical switches through South Africa to avoid raising authorities' suspicions. The scopes and the switches were then shipped to Pakistan.The United States prohibits the export of the switches - also...

NEW DELHI: Pakistani nuclear scientists A Q Khan and Sultan Bashiruddin Mehmood had held meetings with Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders, exchanged letters with militant groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba and attended their gatherings and rallies, a media report said. "When the CIA searched (Sultan Bashiruddin) Mehmood's UTN (Umma Tameere-Nau) office in Kabul, they found large amounts of data on the construction and maintenance of nuclear weapons from the Kahuta laboratories. It also found letters exchanged between the UTN and Islamist extremist organisations including Lashkar-e-Toiba," a report in Pakistani weekly Friday Times said. Mehmood, a close confidante of A Q...

Los Angeles -- Mayor James Hahn on Tuesday said he was angry and frustrated over the fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old black youth at the end of a stolen-car chase and he urged an immediate revision of Police Department policy to limit when officers can shoot at moving vehicles. Hahn said he wanted a "swift, thorough, transparent" investigation into the killing of Devin Brown, who was shot early Sunday when he reportedly backed a stolen car into a police car after a short pursuit. The killing angered residents and community leaders in South Los Angeles where the shooting occurred....

Exclusive: Nuke trader Khan gave major boost to Arab state Arieh O'Sullivan, THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 4, 2005 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...

Inquiry Into Nuclear Sales in Jeopardy Global authorities fear the extent of a Pakistani scientist's proliferation ring remains unknown and would be back in action if pressures ease.By William C. Rempel and Douglas FrantzTimes Staff Writers 6:37 PM PST, December 4, 2004 VIENNA — The global investigation into Abdul Qadeer Khan's black market trade in nuclear technology has stalled in a clash of national interests that threatens a full accounting of his secret partners and clients, according to interviews with diplomats and officials from several countries. International authorities fear the full scope of the Pakistani scientist's ring may never be...

A large number of sensitive nuclear components sold to Iran and Libya for building uranium enrichment plants were made at workshops in Europe and Southeast Asia, says a Washington-based nuclear monitoring agency. In a recent report on the nuclear black market, the Institute for Science and International Security confirms Pakistan's claim that the network might have been headed by a Pakistani, Dr A.Q. Khan, but it was a gang of international proliferators and smugglers that had bases and workshops at many places across the globe. The ISIS report says that the centrifuges the network sold to Iran and Libya are...

BERN, Switzerland - Prosecutors on Wednesday opened an investigation into two Swiss citizens suspected of illegally exporting nuclear-bomb-making technology to Libya, a spokesman for the prosecutors office said. The spokesman, Hansjuerg Mark Wiedmer, declined to identify the suspects. But one investigative source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said one was Swiss engineer Urs Tinner, who was arrested in Germany last week. The Swiss agency that polices adherence to international sanctions disclosed in February that it had opened an investigation to determine whether Tinner had broken Swiss law by making precision parts in Malaysia that were destined for Libya. He is...

State Rep. Phyllis Kahn pleaded guilty to theft on Thursday for stealing campaign literature. Hennepin County District Judge Stephen Aldrich ordered Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, to pay $200 in prosecution costs but agreed to defer any additional sentence for a year and dismiss the misdemeanor charge then if she has no similar violations. Kahn did not appear in court on Thursday, but pleaded guilty through her attorney. "Obviously I did something wrong," she said. "It certainly was an appropriate sentence. I was sorry I did it right after I did it, and I'm still sorry." Kahn, a 32-year legislative veteran, had already...

Here is the most basic point I find astounding. Burkett told CBS his source was Conn, who is a real person. How could CBS go with the story without verifying with Conn? And then tell the American people they had good sources? Obviously, they did not check the alleged source because Conn knew nothing of this. How can the CBS personell involved still be in their jobs? This doesn't seem to pass the laugh test.I could as easily say I have documents from President Bush or Donald Rumsfeld. Who would take my word before checking with them?And How can the...

A RINO, a PAC, Trial Lawyers, & Bobby Kahn Democrats & Trial Lawyers Work To Unseat Bill Stephens Editor's Note:An anonymous reader submitted the information contained below but we have confirmed what we are told is true. --------------------------------Bubba McDonald's History Contributed $1,000 to Bill Clinton. Contributed $1,000 to Max Cleland in 2002. Ran (and won) PSC seat as a Democrat. Many contributors otherwise support Democrats only. Backed by Trial Lawyers. Only "Republican" included in "Democrat Fundraiser". Sang National Anthem at Democrat State Convention. Financial supporters support John Kerry & National Democrats. $100,000+ in Trial Lawyer money. Democrat Chairman an organizer...

I found this long article yesterday. After reading an increasing number of articles referring to the Pakistani Kahn, I decided to translate this, since I felt it offered a lot of information about his background. Yes, the article is rather long, it reads fairly easily, though, I thought. Part 1 - deals mainly with the IAEA investigators, Iran and Libya and secret service units. You do have to make it through a couple of Bush/USA digs at the end, but it's not excrucuating. Part 2 deals with more inside info about the person Kahn and his wheeling/dealing. I thought it...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Attorney General John Ashcroft said Wednesday the terrorists behind the attacks on the United States likely received support from foreign governments and that it was too early to tell if surprise arrests in Michigan were a major break in the case.</p>

Is Pakistan's nuclear programme dying? By Paul Anderson BBC correspondent in Islamabad In all the heat generated by Pakistan's leading nuclear scientist, AQ Khan, confessing to nuclear proliferation, relatively little attention has been paid to the future of the country's nuclear weapons programme. AQ Khan dramatically confessed to leaking nuclear secrets in February. In the 1970s Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto famously declared that Pakistanis would go to any sacrifice to match India's nuclear weapons programme, even if it meant the people being reduced to eating grass. Now they have a nuclear programme, they are discovering that weapons technology is...

CIA: Al-Qaeda worked with ex-Pak scientists [Al-Qaeda has nukes! ]Despite repeated Pakistani denials, US intelligence agency CIA has said international terrorist outfit al-Qaeda was working with two former Pakistani scientists and is currently capable of conducting attacks with chemical, biological, radiological or even nuclear weapons. The CIA in a May 2003 report entitled 'Terrorist CBRN: Materials and Effects' named former scientists of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission as Bashir Ud-din Mahmood and Abdul Majeed saying al Qaeda was working with them. These charges have been denied by Pakistani officials. Handwritten documents uncovered in Afghanistan suggest that Al-Qaeda's specialists did have...

A London accountant has described how Pakistan's disgraced nuclear hero Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan visited the West African state of Mali on three occasions between 1998 and 2000. Abdul Ma'bood Siddiqui accompanied A.Q. Khan on three mystery trips  between 1998 and 2000. Their final destination was Timbuktu, a remote outpost in the desert that has always been a magnet for explorers and adventurers from around the world. The mystery behind the visits has deepened following recent revelations that Khan is also the owner of a small hotel in the town that he has named after Hendrina, his Dutch-born wife and...

Many in Pakistan have rallied to defend the country's bomb-makers (needlessly and incorrectly called "scientists" although they are technologists and have not created any new science). This is even after abundant proof that they have freely spread nuclear weapons secrets and equipment around the globe. Some vociferously argue that, by not having signed the NPT, the bomb-makers are blameless since they broke no law or treaty by sharing nuclear secrets with other parties. But this legalistic argument is weak, unconvincing, and insufficient to prevent serious damage to Pakistan. For over 15 years Pakistan had repeatedly assured the world that it...

Malaysian police report implicates the Griffins John Aglionby in Kuala Lumpur Saturday February 21, 2004 The Guardian A British businessman and his son suspected of procuring blackmarket equipment to make nuclear weapons were instrumental in setting up Libya's weapons programme, the Malaysian police allege. Peter Griffin, 68, and his son Paul, 40, from Swansea but based in Dubai and France, supplied equipment, technology and helped arranged the training of technicians "to set up a workshop in Libya to make centrifuge components which could not be obtained from outside Libya" a 17-page police report says. It claims that they set up...

February 13, 2004 Islamabad accused of nuclear 'cover-up'By Edward Luce in Islamabad Relatives of six scientists who worked with A.Q. Khan, the disgraced "father of the Islamic bomb", have accused Islamabad of indulging in a cover-up to protect the Pakistani military from being tainted by the nuclear proliferation scandal.The Pakistani government alleges that the scientists, five of whom have been held since 17 January and one since 27 November, "passed on" nuclear materials, designs and machinery to "foreign countries" - thought to be Libya, Iran and North Korea.Last week, General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president, pardoned A.Q. Khan after he had...

Secret U.S. Trips to Libya Led to Weapons Pledge 2 hours, 18 minutes ago Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secret trips by American intelligence officers, late night meetings with Muammar Gaddafi (news - web sites) and disclosures that the United States knew about Libya's arms programs led to Tripoli's pledge to give up its unconventional weapons, senior intelligence officials said on Saturday. A team of American and British intelligence officers flew to Libya clandestinely in October and December for stretches of about two weeks, visiting sites where they were shown parts...