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| Pakistani scientist 'offered Saddam nuclear designs' |
| 2002-12-20 |
| A PAKISTANI scientist approached Iraq soon after the 1990 invasion of Kuwait to offer nuclear weapon designs and help in procuring bomb components, according to a document found by United Nations weapons inspectors. The revelation, which provoked an inconclusive inquiry by inspectors, has raised new concerns about Pakistan’s role in the proliferation of nuclear technology. It follows allegations that Pakistan helped North Korea to develop a nuclear bomb and that Pakistani nuclear scientists met Osama bin Laden and the Taleban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, in Afghanistan. The offer by the Pakistani scientist, found in Iraqi archives, was made in October 1990 as a US-led coalition prepared to repel the August invasion of Kuwait. Iraq had already embarked on a crash programme to develop a nuclear bomb, but told the UN it had not pursued the scientist’s offer — a claim UN investigators are inclined to believe. The document revealing the contact between the scientist and Iraq is referred to twice in the Iraqi declaration of its nuclear capability, which The Times has obtained. I've got the entire article is on WOTWeek, if you're interested in the details. There's a pattern here, and I'm not talking about Iraq's pattern. Unless staring directly down the barrel of U.S. guns, there doesn't seem to be another country in the world that's so eager to work against American interests as Pakland — and that assessment includes Soddy Arabia. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |