Khan Nuclear Trafficking Probe Being Hampered by US

[kpete]

May 29, 2006 - 9:59 PM
US frustrates Swiss nuclear probe

A Swiss investigation into an international nuclear smuggling network is being hampered by a lack of cooperation from the United States.
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Washington's failure to respond to "multiple" Swiss appeals was revealed last week by former United Nations weapons inspector David Albright.

He told a US hearing into the nuclear trafficking ring run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's atom bomb, that he found the lack of cooperation by the US "frankly embarrassing".

"It is difficult to understand the actions of the US government. Its lack of assistance needlessly complicates this important investigation," said Albright, who is president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security.

more at:
http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/front/detail/US_frustrates_Swiss_nuclear_probe.html?siteSect=105&sid=6760904&cKey=1148932805000

[blm]

1. Because it all leads back to Poppy Bush and BCCI.

Fact: Had BCCI been fully revealed, there would be NO SIGNIFICANT TERRORIST network operating today......and certainly no 9-11.

[file83]

16. Bingo.

[papau]

2. I've posted many times about IKE's decision to give the bomb to Pakistan

if India got the bomb - and in the meantime to finance their development of nuke knowledge via the Atoms for peace program. A $20 billion commitment according to the fellow who told me this and who was also the fellow that was the point person for starting the money flow to Pakistan via black box accounting (the hidden CIA money in the Federal budget - namely General Olmstead.

General Olmstead was Under Sec of Commerce for Ike when he was given the job of RW bagman for the $20B, and he was a friend of Reagan all the years I knew him, eating over at the White House with Reagan on a regular schedule. I have no reason to believe he was enhancing anything he said. Indeed he said this in front of the top executives of his International Bank empire. And I suspect that knowledge was the fact he was so afraid of anyone hiring/giving cover for a CIA employee. He even regretted the agreement we )the International Bank Group) had to pay annual monies to the former dictator of Pakistan via a numbered account in the EU, pretending the fellow was an employee of our sub. Bankers Life of NY, and getting reimbursed of course. Heck Olmstead was so sure our CIA connection meant we would not get audited by the IRS in any serious manner that Bankers (not my company) was allowed to claim several hundred million in reserve losses that never happened in the 70's - ending its tax liability for several years.

Our CIA does not want their involvement known is my best guess as to why the Swiss investigation is being stonewalled.

[EVDebs]

21. Sounds comparable to Blank Check book by Tim Weiner

""This book is based on Tim Weiner's Pulitzer Prize-winning series in the Philadelphia Inquirer. By following the money, Weiner finds appropriations of public dollars for highly-compartmentalized, secret research projects with no accountability to either Congress or the Secretary of Defense. The secret budget has never been published, a violation of Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution.
Reagan doubled the Pentagon budget between 1981 and 1985, and by 1991 Bush had increased the "black" portion to 25 percent. Born from the Manhattan Project, described by Weiner as a "mutant chromosome in the American body politic," this secret operation is now a full-blown parallel government.

Weiner shows the secret government at work in diverting funds illegally, creating military units outside the chain of command, conducting covert wars, and transforming Star Wars into a system for the control of space. This book is a solidly-documented description of how the U.S. responded to atomic weapons and the Cold War by giving birth to, nurturing, and ultimately succumbing to a national security state. ""

http://www.namebase.org/sources/PR.html

Unconstitutional, covert, black bag money which also goes to Congressmen/women btw. Nice catch, papau !

[peacetalksforall]

3. According to all the articles that are out there - Khan = Cheney or

Khan + Cheney.

Add the Brewster-Jennings investigation. That one got taken down - by whom?

[ladjf]

4. Hmm. Too bad Valerie Plame was taken off of the job. She

probably could have made some good contributions to this study. Let see, Halliburton, Cheney, arms sales in Middle East, naw, Cheney wouldn't have ousted Plame to keep Halliburton out of this.

[Roland99]

5. Not to mention whoever worked for Brewster Jennings. And....Sibel?

Wonder how much she knew of business dealings.

[Nickster]

8. Exactly, they had to knock out Plame to keep the lid on AQ Khan

and his customers.

[ladjf]

9. This is the only theory that makes sense about the Plame affair.

That op-ed article by her husband just wasn't that big a deal, not big enough to take the risk they took to discredit him. But the nuclear arms deal is another matter. Imagine if it got out that Cheney and Halliburton had been involved in nuclear arms transactions in the middle east.

[Nickster]

12. Amb. Wilson just provided them the open door. If he hadn't they would

have found another way. I'm not even sure that Amb. Wilson even understands the depths of what he basically "stumbled" onto.

[Fovea]

20. 'not even sure that Amb. Wilson even understands'

As a Strauss apologist said to me last week in relation to Philosophers,
'They may not be able to say all they know.'

I imagine the games that Plame and Wilson *do* know, but cannot say. This woman was a WMD NOC, after all.

They would fear what she knows, if they are smart.

[Nickster]

22. I understand what you're saying, trust me, I've had this debate with

myself for awhile now. He may be hiding things, but call it a "gut" feeling, I don't think he is. I base this on his writings and interviews that I've heard with him. I don't know how to state this the most eloquently, but I get the feeling that he's placing way too much importance on himself as if he was the EXACT target and reason they outed Valerie. Maybe he's doing that to keep the heat off of Valerie, but keep focus on her outing all the same.

Now Valerie on the other hand,I'm sure she knows the game and the players involved. If she's leading Ops, I don't think she'd be naive enough to not see the politics involved. Would she get Amb. Wilson involved in the dark side of her work or keep him outside to protect him?

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

6. Check this

http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/SAfrica/Nuclear/2149_4624.html

info about Libya from the swissinfo piece and tons about proliferation.

includes 'sought uranium from Africa'
...September 2002
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, by revealing the contents of a government dossier, implicates Saddam Hussein in trying to buy African uranium to give Iraq's weapons program a nuclear capability. Blair's documents did not identify any country allegedly approached by Iraq, but security analysts said the Congo was the likeliest, followed by South Africa. Jakkie Cilliers, head of the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, is doubtful of Baghdad obtaining uranium from South Africa. "As a past nuclear power we are an obvious suspect but it is unlikely because the programme was dismantled under the observation of the International Atomic Energy Agency." According to a BBC investigation, a year before South Africa halted its nuclear weapons program, it traded enriched uranium with Saddam Hussein with U.S. approval. The BBC cited an anonymous South African intelligence official who said about 50kg of uranium was sold to the Iraqis.
--James Astill and Rory Carroll, "Iraq Dossier: African gangs offer route to uranium: Nuclear Suspicion falls on Congo and South Africa," The Guardian, 25 September 2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,798497,00.html


British dossier on WMD--PDF file
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Politics/documents/2002/09/24/dossier.pdf

[madrchsod]

7. brewster -jennings

can we call it treason now?

[ladjf]

10. What is the Brewser-Jennings story?

[CabalPowered]

11. That was Plame's front company

[robertpaulsen]

13. American Judas answers the question why.

Here's a little snippet:

5. Unnamed U.S. Firm - More than 20 firms - including at least one American company - have supplied rogue nations seeking nuclear arms, marking the first time a U.S. company has been linked to the black market network.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei, who is heading a probe into the illicit sales, avoided specifics on the locations of the companies in an interview with The Associated Press Friday.

But a senior diplomat said at least one was in the United States - the first time in five months of investigations by the U.N. nuclear agency that an American company has been implicated in the black market network headed by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Kahn.(http://www.billingsgazette.com/newdex.php?display=rednews/2004/07/10/build/world/80-firm-arms.inc)

What American company would possibly have had the means and the motive to risk potentially treasonous activity by profiting off black market nuclear proliferation to terrorist organizations and their state sponsors? In the next two sections, an examination into the motives of why Dick Cheney, through his association with Halliburton, would have wanted a sting operation focused on A.Q. Khan’s nuclear Walmart terminated will be conducted, as well as an exploration into how the profits from such a treacherous enterprise could possibly have been laundered.

Read the rest of American Judas at the link on my signature.

[stop the bleeding]

23. read post#13 people - knowledge is all n/t

[redqueen]

14. I'll hold my breath waiting for the "liberal media" to blast this story.

[spuddonna]

15. We're hampering the investigation?! Shocked! I am shocked...

:sarcasm:

Oh the deals they've made, all the lies they've told... What kinda deal did they make with Pakistan on Khan? Will we ever know the real truth? How much longer until this entire administration implodes? It seems like there is no end...x(

[The Deacon]

18. The Mendacity

Isn't one sided. The Pakistani Intelligence Agency (which used U.S. money to strengthen the Taliban) won't let anyone near Khan. The nominal president of Pakistan lacks the political power to over-rule the Agency. The U.S. not responding probably has more to do with not embarrassing the Pakistanis than with not embarrassing U.S. businesses (who have so many cut-outs in this trade that a division of attorneys with unlimited time couldn't sort it out.)

[EVDebs]

17. Greg Palast's "Khan Job" article combined with the NSA's 'policy shifts'

""A top-level CIA operative who spoke with us on condition of strictest anonymity said that, after Bush took office, "There was a major policy shift" at the National Security Agency. Investigators were ordered to "back off " from any inquiries into Saudi Arabian financing of terror networks, especially if they touched on Saudi royals and their retainers. That put the Bin Ladens, a family worth a reported $12 billion and a virtual arm of the Saudi royal household, off limits for investigation. Osama was the exception; he remained a wanted man, but agents could not look too closely at how he filled his piggy bank. The key rule of any investigation, "follow the money," was now violated, and investigations-at least before September 11-began to die. ""
from

Khan Job
www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=312&row=0

combined with the NSA's pre-9/11 initiation of FirstFruits, as described by Wayne Madsen formerly of NSA himself,

""December 28, 2005 ...
In addition, beginning in 2001 but before the 9-11 attacks, NSA began to target anyone in the U.S. intelligence community who was deemed a "disgruntled employee." According to NSA sources, this surveillance was a violation of United States Signals Intelligence Directive (USSID) 18 and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. The surveillance of U.S. intelligence personnel by other intelligence personnel in the United States and abroad was conducted without any warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The targeted U.S. intelligence agency personnel included those who made contact with members of the media, including the journalists targeted by Firstfruits, as well as members of Congress, Inspectors General, and other oversight agencies. Those discovered to have spoken to journalists and oversight personnel were subjected to sudden clearance revocation and termination as "security risks." from

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

You simply see the cookie crumbs leading directly to a coverup of massive proportions. September 11th 'conspiracy theorists' have more credible evidence than those wishful thinkers who think this was all merely a case of 'incompetence', apparently. The evidence is now more like a 'smoking gun' when viewed with Voltaire's maxim to follow what they DO, not what they SAY.

Even further credence to this is the stuff about wargames on 9-11 and the treatment of Indira Singh ( not to mention Sibel Edmonds, in a related effort) to blow the whistle on Ptech, now known as GoAgile, which still works for the US government, WhiteHouse and DoD:

""Ptech is used primarily to develop enterprise blueprints at the highest level of US government and corporate infrastructure. These blueprints hold every important functional, operational, and technical detail of the enterprise. A secondary use of this powerful tool is to build other smart tools in a short period of time. Ptech’s clients in 2001 included the Department of Justice, the Department of Energy, Customs, Air Force, the White House, the FAA, IBM, Sysco, Aetna, and Motorola, to name just a few."" from

Dollars of Terror
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17730

[savemefromdumbya]

19. Is this what Valerie Plame or Sibel Edmonds found out?

Valerie who?

Sibel who?

[chill_wind]

24. Condi Rice in 04 on Khan- a FARCE and a Travesty (CNN)

dear dear me, and here the Ministry of Lies and Popaganda chose to insist in the 04 campaign that Khan was out of business, and even more absurdly and feloniously, tried to claim he'd been "brought to justice".

Memory Lane: (back when Blitzer had..well-- at least the tinest semblence of a tiny pair. If only even extremely occasionally. Seems so long ago, now..)

BLITZER: Let's talk about some of the things that the president said at the debate because some of them seem to be a little bit sloppy, got repetitive, as you well know.

But listen to this one excerpt of what he said briefly about Abdul Qadeer Khan, the former Pakistani nuclear scientist who helped create the Pakistani bomb, and obviously that no longer exists. But listen to what the president said.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The A.Q. Khan network has been brought to justice.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BLITZER: To justice? The guy has been -- Khan has been freed. He's been pardoned by President Musharraf. And none of his associates have been brought to justice.

RICE: Well, his associates are in the process of being brought to justice. BSA Tahir (ph) is in custody. Several other members are in custody.

BLITZER: But Khan himself lives in a villa. And the IAEA would like to question him, and the Pakistani government doesn't even allow that to happen.

RICE: I think we all know that A.Q. Khan was a particular kind of figure in Pakistani lore, a national hero. And Musharraf has dealt with what is a very difficult situation about A.Q. Khan, by making certain that he's out of business, making certain that he loses the kinds of privileges that he had to travel and the like.

The important thing is that the A.Q. Khan network is out of business. And people are being brought to justice.

BLITZER: But the president would have been better saying the A.Q. Khan network has been rolled up or stopped. But brought to justice is a specific phrase...

RICE: They've both been brought to -- they've both been rolled up, and they're being brought to justice. A number of countries are pursuing prosecutions...

BLITZER: Against Khan?

RICE: ... against the A.Q. Khan network -- people like his chief operating officer, BSA Tahir (ph). South Africa is pursuing prosecutions. Europeans are pursuing...

BLITZER: But not A.Q. Khan specifically.

RICE: A.Q. Khan, in a sense, has been brought to justice because he is out of the business that he loved most.

BLITZER: All right. So you don't want to say that was sloppy wording?

RICE: Wolf, A.Q. Khan...

BLITZER: It's hard to say the president had sloppy wording.

RICE: A.Q. Khan is out of business and he is out of the business that he loved most. And if you don't think that his national humiliation is justice for what he did, I think it is. He's nationally humiliated.

from long transcript at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/03/le.01.html

It was a farce and a lie then. It is lie and a travesty now.
But that's way the bloody war profiteers want to keep it.

[madmark]

25. dysfunctional national security and diplomatic policy; coupled with

domestic attack on the US Constitution. The Worst of all worlds.

[The Animator]

26. Raises fists into the air... KHAAAAAAN!!!!!!

Sorry, had to be done.