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Iran may have Khan nuke gear: Pakistan
2006-10-25
DISGRACED Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan smuggled several nuclear centrifuges to Dubai that may have been transferred to Iran, a Pakistani military official has admitted.
“ Khan smuggled several nuclear (P2) centrifuges to Dubai that may have been transferred to Iran. Some were also sent to North Korea”

The P2 nuclear centrifuges were also sent to North Korea, said the official, who did not want to be identified.

Reports in Pakistan yesterday quoted the official, who was speaking in Washington, as saying: "If you ask for an educated and intelligent guess, I would say, yes, they might have been sent to Iran too, but we have no evidence to prove it."

Pakistani newspapers said the briefing was intended to reassure the world that Islamabad was not officially involved in the proliferation of nuclear technology and that the network operated by Dr Khan had been destroyed.

Islamabad is highly sensitive about charges of official complicity in proliferation and involvement in the nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran.
“ International inspectors have found evidence of Pakistani centrifuges at Iranian nuclear sites ”

International inspectors have found evidence of Pakistani centrifuges at Iranian nuclear sites, although Tehran denies receiving them. The military official is reported to have said that in 1995, long after Pakistan stopped using the old P1 machines, Dr Khan ordered 200 centrifuges "out of Kahuta (the Khan laboratories at Islamabad) to Dubai". They were then sent to Iran.

Asked if he knew how many P2s were smuggled out, the official said: "Three or four P2s were sent to Dubai."

He said Pakistan had no objection to subjecting Dr Khan to a polygraph test to determine if he was telling the truth to interrogators, but claimed the US had refused to supply Islamabad with a polygraph. He said the Pakistani Government could never allow a foreign agency to interrogate Dr Khan, because he was still seen as a national hero.

“ There's not a single Pakistani who does not consider Khan a national hero ”
"There's not a single Pakistani who does not consider him a national hero," he was quoted as saying. "It will be a highly controversial move (if he is interrogated) and the political repercussions will be huge."

The official said Dr Khan was recovering from surgery for prostate cancer, but was fit enough to be interrogated.

Posted by:lotp

#3  Khaaaaan!
Posted by: Raj   2006-10-25 19:46  

#2  Doesn't matter.

We're not going to do anything about it. The UN isn't going to do anything about it. North Korea made that much clear.
Posted by: Mizzou Mafia   2006-10-25 18:54  

#1  Non-sense, everyone knows it was Allah, not Khan, who gave the mad moolahs the juice.
Posted by: Captain America   2006-10-25 18:50  

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