The United States has supported Pakistan's presidential pardon of Abdul Qadeer Khan, after the father of the nation's nuclear program admitted he gave nuclear weapons technology to other countries.
...The government said Khan had confessed to spreading nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea, and Libya up until the year 2000. [Note: apparently there were more than those three: "The rapidly expanding probe into a Pakistani-led nuclear trafficking network extended to at least seven nations at the weekend as investigators said they had traced businesses from Africa, Asia and Europe to the smuggling ring controlled by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan...Companies or individuals in at least seven countries - including Pakistan, Malaysia, South Africa, Japan, the United Arab Emirates and Germany - were involved, officials said. A company in another European country was also involved, two diplomats said." source]
...in a speech in Washington Thursday, U.S. Director of Intelligence George Tenet said Khan's transfer of nuclear technology "was shaving years" off the time some countries needed to develop nuclear weapons. article
But Iraq wasn't one of them.
Anyway....apparently, it's okie dokie to deal in nuclear trafficking.....so any of you who were worried about being tried (and perhaps executed) for trading secrets, fear no more. Have at it.
...hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Sunday, February 08, 2004
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