Important topic! NY times: Nuclear Inquiry Skips Pakistani Army

[Wetzelbill]

This is so important I'm going to go home, consult my books and write a column on Pakistan, The Islam Bomb, and whether or not Musharaf has control of his country's intelligence services and nuclear technology. Not included in this is that the "Father of the Islam bomb" Abdul qadeer Khan, is an Islamic Fundamentalist and has traveled to North Korea on at least one occasion. Biggest threat to U.S. security. Bush is funding these guys too. Yikes! More later. -Bill

Nuclear Inquiry Skips Pakistani Army
By DAVID ROHDE

SLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 29 — For the past week, senior government and intelligence officials, speaking anonymously, have steadily disclosed details of a deepening inquiry into what seems to have been the transfer of Pakistan's nuclear technology to Iran and other countries in the late 1980's and early 1990's.

Their version of events — expected to be released publicly this weekend — blames the country's nuclear scientists, including Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, for selling technology for personal gain.

But one issue rarely addressed by officials of the military-led government is the extent to which the inquiry has examined the role Pakistan's powerful military — which had tight control over the nuclear program — may have played in the sale or sharing of nuclear technology.

In interviews this week, retired Pakistani civilian and military officials, former American diplomats and proliferation experts said the country's military-led government appeared to be glossing over evidence that senior military officials might have approved the sales.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/international/asia/30NUKE.html?th=&pagewanted=print&position=

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1. Thnks for posting. V. v. important (nt)