"My brothers and sisters, I have chosen to appear before you to offer my deepest regrets and unqualified apologies to a traumatized nation," Khan said on Pakistan Television, speaking in English. "I also wish to clarify that there was never ever any kind of authorization for these activities by the government."
Originally posted by Rangudu:
You guys wanna see a tap dance with words? See today's White House briefing
Q But are you taking them on faith, or do you have independent evidence to back up that what he's saying is true?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I think that I would leave it the way I did. We value his assurances.
[/b][/QUOTE]He is neither poor nor punished. It is all Mushy's grand strategic plan. This is how they dealt with JEM leaders, Pearl killer. They talk to them and tell that in view of the US pressure, they have to swallow the pride and confess and absolve the RAPE army, ISI and Mushy. Publicly they will be arrested or under house arrest. I think privately they will be treated royally. They are being asked to sacrifice now so that Pakis can retreat strategically NOW and take their revenge on hindoos later.Originally posted by Daulat:
poor Xerox bhai, provides visible proof that debriefing really does precede GUBO - and this time its from Gola - who by now knows a thing or two about GUBO
wonder what Mush paid him to take the rap?
What a farce!He also submitted "his mercy petition to the President and requested for clemency," it said.
Dr Khan, who was reported to be under house arrest for several weeks and questioned intensively by Pakistani investigators about the alleged transfer of nuclear technology, in a surprise move sought a meeting with Musharraf this morning, which was immediately granted.
The President was exceptionally kind and understanding. We discussed this ongoing affair and the international campaign against Pakistan about nuclear matters.
Even a skull head can understand the Paki and PRC intention against India US and the democracies of the world.Experts familiar with the contents of the box say the designs closely resemble the warheads that China tested in the late 1960's and passed on to Pakistan decades ago.
precisely because they are agreeable to being stupid publicly. It is quite a talent ... most folks can't do it with a straight faceOriginally posted by John Umrao:
How do these guys get such lucarative jobs in the administration?
!!Went to Kargil and had his b*tt kicked (by the US)! Supported the Taliban and had his b*tt kicked (by the US). Supported AQ Khan-father of the Islamic bomb and got his b*tt kicked (by the US).CIA may question A.Q.Khan
4 February 2004: A three-member CIA team is coming to Islamabad on 26 February to interrogate the so-called father of the Pak A-bomb, A.Q.Khan, over his links to North Korea’s nuclear programme. Khan who has confessed to proliferating nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea is expected to be confronted with photographs and other evidence that he helped set up North Korea’s plutonium pre-processing unit and the controversial P 6-weaponisation reactor.
Diplomats said that Khan spent twenty-eight days in North Korea in July 1999 establishing its nuclear facilities. In diplomatic circles, it was generally known that a Pakistani team was in North Korea at that time, but it was assumed that Pakistan was making emergency purchases of missiles. Now it turns out that Khan and other Pakistani atomic scientists were critically engaged in proliferating to North Korea.
Sources said that the former Pakistani prime minister, Nawaz Sharief, had corroborated some of Khan’s proliferation activities, but apparently said that he had no control over Khan’s movements, and that the powerful atomic scientist could requisition Pakistan airforce planes at will to fly him around the world.
The US wants to keep a lid on the CIA interrogation of A.Q.Khan, fearing that in the event of protests, Pakistan would withdraw the permission for the questioning of the scientist. In addition to Khan, the CIA is expected to question other nuclear scientists connected to the proliferation.
Qadeer Khan meets President Musharraf, seeks clemency
ISLAMABAD: The founder of Pakistan's nuclear programme, Abdul Qadeer Khan, accepted full responsibility for all leaks of Pakistani nuclear data on Wednesday and sought clemency from President Pervez Musharraf, a government statement said.
This he said in his meeting with Pakistna’s President General Pevez Musharraf held in the garrison city of Rawalpindi near the capital Islamabad.
Khan "has accepted full responsibility for all the nuclear proliferation activities which were conducted by him during the period in which he was at the helm of affairs of the Khan Research Laboratories, the statement said.
Khan had also "submitted his mercy petition to the president and requested
for clemency," it said.
Musharraf was to consult the National Command Authority, the top decision-making body on Pakistan's nuclear and missile programme, before deciding whether to accept Khan's plea for mercy, the statement said.
Pakistan television showed an interview with Khan who said he had told the president "what had happened."
"I gave him the background what was happening and what had happaned," Khan
told state-run TV.
"He (Musharraf) appreciated the frankness with which I gave him the details and insh'allah (God willing) he will discuss with the cabinet, with the prime minister, with other colleagues and then he will take a decision how to proceed and close this matter."
Musharraf said the entire nation had been "severely traumatised by the unfortunate events in the last months," a reference to the investigation into nuclear leaks by Pakistani scientists to Iran, Libya and North Korea.
K is choosy with his words. Does not tell that west was complicit in the proliferation and may have directly aided in the setup of the network for proliferation eg. BCCI.Originally posted by SSridhar:
A Q Khan has now become the nemesis of western hypocrisy on non-proliferation and of the Pakistani military establishment. It is not easy for General Musharraf to maintain that the Pak military and the ISI had no clue of Khan’s vast operations. They do know that without the European nuclear black market network, the Pakistani nuclear arsenal cannot be sustained indefinitely. Obviously, such an enormous operation could not have been missed out by the CIA, MI-6 and secret services of all major western countries. The commitment of the West to non-proliferation was never genuine.
kgoan: If the sordid stuff on some of the links I posted earlier is any indication, maybe its not farfetched to presume you'll not find the BCCI-Paki nuke link be detailed in so many words in any 'mainstream' media source, because:Originally posted by kgoan:
But folks, please also keep an eye out for anything *new*. i.e. Any *recent* stuff, (meaning anything written in "reputable"** media since the Xerox stuff blew up in Paks face), that mentions BCCI in the current context.
Pakistan investigates BCCI role in sale of nuclear knowhow
By Stephen Fidler in London and Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad
Published: January 28 2004 4:00 | Last Updated: January 28 2004 4:00
The Pakistani government is examining records of the failed Bank of Credit and Commerce International in its investigation into the role Pakistani scientists may have played in selling nuclear knowhow to Iran, North Korea and Libya.
According to bankers, some of whom worked with BCCI before it collapsed in 1991, Pakistani investigators have sought the help of former BCCI employees to try to uncover payments made to scientists connected with Pakistan's nuclear programme.
BCCI's role in financing Pakistan's own nuclear efforts has long been the subject of scrutiny. In 1992, a report into BCCI from a US Congressional sub-committee headed by Senator John Kerry, now a leading Democratic presidential contender, said "there is good reason to conclude that BCCI did finance Pakistan's nuclear programme". Though it said the issue deserved further investigation, there was little public follow-through.
This year, however, as evidence has mounted that Pakistani scientists helped the uranium enrichment programmes of Iran, North Korea and Libya, the Pakistani government has launched an investigation. A government spokesman in Islamabad said that anybody found to have passed on secrets would be punished, but denied that the government approved any transfers.
At least 11 Pakistani scientists and officials - as well as the so-called father of the Pakistani nuclear bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan - have been questioned.
BCCI helped the Pakistani government under General Zia ul Haq, the military dictator killed in a 1988 plane crash, to channel payments from the US Central Intelligence Agency to fighters seeking to oust Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Soviet troops withdrew in 1989 but former BCCI officials said the relationship for organising undocumented payments for influential Pakistanis continued until the bank's collapse.
One former BCCI banker who said he organised funds transfers on behalf of senior military officers in the Zia regime commented: "I'm not surprised that the Pakistanis are now looking to put together dossiers on some of their scientists receiving payments through BCCI."
He said that over the past two months, Pakistani officials had travelled to the Middle East, looking for evidence of nuclear scientists receiving payments through BCCI.
Another former BCCI banker said that establishing payments to Pakistani nuclear scientists through the bank could provide evidence about the so far undocumented role of senior former Pakistani military officers in overseeing the transfer of nuclear knowhow to other countries. The investigation has prompted speculation among western intelligence officials and diplomats over the extent to which General Zia, leader of a frontline anti-communist state, in fact sanctioned the transfer of nuclear knowhow to Iran.
In the past four to eight weeks, he said the Pakistani investigators have been seeking evidence of payments made to Mohammad Farooq, one of the nuclear scientists at the centre of the investigation. Pakistani officials are said to have focused on Mr Farooq as a possible contact between the Iranians and Mr Khan.
Mr Farooq is said to be one of a handful of Pakistani nuclear scientists who travelled to Iran in the past. According to a retired Pakistani government official now settled overseas, Gen Zia authorised the transfer of nuclear information but only if it was intended for peaceful purposes.
In a report aimed at outlining proliferation risks to Dutch businesses, the country's General Intelligence and Security Service said "Pakistan had based its nuclear weapons programme on knowledge that had been stolen in the Netherlands". It said Mr Khan "largely acquired his knowledge through a study and a trainee project in the Netherlands. He concluded his traineeship by stealing technology from his employer", the Anglo-Dutch-German consortium Urenco.
According to people who have debriefed Iraqi scientists, and Iraqi memos uncovered earlier, a person saying he represented Mr Khan visited Baghdad in October 1990 to offer bomb design and help with uranium enrichment centrifuges. The approach was never pursued.
)In other words:Originally posted by shiv:
Originally posted by Rangudu:
You guys wanna see a tap dance with words? See today's White House briefing
Q But are you taking them on faith, or do you have independent evidence to back up that what he's saying is true?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I think that I would leave it the way I did. We value his assurances.
[/b][/QUOTE]God I used to go and scream at the stadium like a mad man. Little did I know then the true horrors of the world.Originally posted by John Umrao:
recall this BCCI was big time Sharja Cricket sponosorer, from which the fountain of Match fixing started ( note: match fixing is not the same as arranged marriage
I also appeal to all citizens of Pakistan in the supreme national interest to refrain from any further speculations and not to politicize this extremely sensitive issue of national security. May Allah keep Pakistan safe and secure. Pakistan Paindabad![Long Live Pakistan!].
By John Lancaster and Kamran Khan, Washington PostMusharraf named in Nuclear (proliferation..)
says senior officials OK'd...) Shows a nice mug shot of AXK. The article goes downhill about Paki denials, but anyway that's all that survived the "downsizing" of the paper.(AXK) has told investigators that he helped North Korea design and equip facilities for making weapons-grade uranium with the knowledge of senior military commanders, including Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president, according to a friend of Khan's and a senior Pakistani investigator.
Khanalso has told investigators that Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg, the Pakistani army chief of staff from 1988 to 1991, was aware of assistance Khan was providing to Iran's nuclear program and that two other army chiefs, including Musharraf, knew and approved of his efforts on behalf of North Korea, the same individuals said Monday.
Khan's assertions.... (blah-blah). They contradict repeated contentions by Musharraf and other senior officials that Khan and at least one other scientist, Mohammed Farooq, acted out of greed and in violation of government policy that bars the export of nuclear weapons technology to any foreign country.
On the basis of Khan's claims, Beg and another former (chief of staff) Jehangir Karamat, who occuiped the post from 1996 to 1998, have been questioned by investigators in recent days, but both have denied any knowledge of the transactions, according to a senior Pakistani military officer who spoke on condition of anonymity...
As I suspected, the "free press" in the land of the free and the home of the brave probably have been requested by the SD to keep this one out of the news. I mean, if Mushy's is part of the nuke proliferation, then the Bush admin has to answer really uncomfortable questions as to why Iraq was targeted instead of its frontline ally in the GOAT. The US and Paki govts. are working in concert to keep AXK's accusation of musharraf under the lid. AXK voluntarily becomes the fall guy and in return gets to keep his loot and is out on parole in pakistan, just like the rest of his fellow criminals. Mushy gets to blame AXK and saves the H&D of the paki army, and keeps the army out of this proliferation scandal. The US SD gets to continue with "Musharraf is pakistan's savior" line because now he cannot be accused of nuke proliferation post 9/11. What a freaking scam!Originally posted by narayanan:
How come this has not been seen anywhere else? Sounds like it should be in the Washington Boast, hey?
[Long Live Pakistan!].