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Axis of Evil
Helpful Paks aided NKors with their nukes...
2002-10-18
American intelligence officials have concluded that Pakistan, a strange bedfellow vital ally since last year's terrorist attacks, was a major supplier of critical equipment for North Korea's clandestine nuclear weapons program. The equipment, which may include gas centrifuges used to create weapons-grade uranium, appears to have been part of a barter deal beginning in the late 1990's in which North Korea supplied Pakistan with missiles it could use to counter India's nuclear arsenal. "What you have here," said one official familiar with the intelligence, "is a perfect meeting of interests — the North had what the Pakistanis needed, and the Pakistanis had a way for Kim Jong Il to restart a nuclear program we had stopped." China and Russia were less prominent suppliers, officials said.
You also had two countries who hate the United States and all it stands for. One of them admits it...
The White House said that it would not discuss Pakistan's role or any other intelligence information. The trade between Pakistan and North Korea appears to have occurred around 1997, roughly two years before Gen. Pervez Musharraf took power in a bloodless coup.
"Yo! Down in the kitchen! Pontius Pilate sez to send up some water! He wants to wash his hands!"
However, the relationship appears to have continued after General Musharraf became president, and there is some evidence that a commercial relationship between the two country's extended beyond Sept. 11 of last year.
"It was just business, Mike..."
A spokesman for the Pakistan Embassy, Asad Hayauddin, said it was "absolutely incorrect" to accuse Pakistan of providing nuclear weapons technology to North Korea. "We have never had an accident or leak or any export of fissile material or nuclear technology or knowledge," he said.
"No, no! Wudn't us! We lo-o-o-o-o-ve you guys! Why, lookit all we've done for you...!"
Thanks to Steve for the headline...
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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