When was the last time you wanted to buy a few hundred nuclear triggers?
When that dictator lets people dealing in this stuff off with a slap on the wrist and the US or just anybody doesn't even a say boo,then you have know all these folk are in it up to their eye balls.
This could even be a slight of hand so they can say Pakistan is in with the good guys(you know, on the side of the guys with the white hats). Talk about arming people with WMD, *,Dick,most of BFEE and probably a whole lot of others should be jail for the collaborating in this. It's only about money, just like anything else if money can made somehow, BFEE and company will be in the thick of it, regardless of consequences.
(Just the different players in this article makes one wonder)
Something recent
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/weather/7724855.htm Posted on Fri, Jan. 16, 2004
Arrest Ties Pakistan to Nuke Black Market
MATT KELLEY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - This month's arrest of a South Africa-based businessman accused of smuggling nuclear bomb triggers to Pakistan offers a rare window into the worldwide black market for nuclear weapons parts.
Authorities accuse Asher Karni, 50, of being the middleman for a complex series of transactions involving dozens of the triggers. Agents arrested Karni Jan. 2 at Denver International Airport.
Court documents say Karni used a series of front companies and misleading shipping documents to buy the devices from a Massachusetts company, have them sent through New Jersey to South Africa, then on to the United Arab Emirates and eventually to Pakistan. What Karni didn't know, a federal officer said in an affidavit, was that authorities had intervened and had the manufacturer sabotage the devices so they couldn't be used.
The case is the latest indication that Pakistan - a key U.S. ally in the war on terrorism - is deeply involved in the nuclear weapons black market. The United States for years has restricted exports of sensitive goods to Pakistan because of its nuclear weapons program.
If the devices were indeed headed for Pakistan's nuclear program, the most likely explanation would be that Pakistan was planning to build more nuclear bombs. That could complicate Pakistan's relations with its neighbor and nuclear rival India.
Officials from the United States and other governments say Pakistan also was the likely source for some of the know-how and equipment for nuclear weapons programs in Libya, North Korea and Iran. Secretary of State Colin Powell said this month that American officials have presented evidence to Pakistan's leaders of Pakistani involvement in the spread of nuclear weapons technology
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But now after 3 months the Pakistani dictator has been rehabilitated, and is good for the struggle with AQ, Yea right
And to a little history
http://www.fas.org/news/pakistan/1992/920731.htmTHE PRESSLER AMENDMENT AND PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM (Senate - July 31, 1992)
Testimony of Senator John Glenn--U.S./Pakistan Nuclear Issues
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(BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, U.S. SENATE, JULY 30, 1992)
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this opportunity to testify on U.S. responses to nuclear developments in Pakistan. I was tempted also to address my many concerns about India's large unsafe-guarded nuclear program, but given time limitations and the focus of this hearing, I will address these concerns in another forum. Besides, your Committee has every reason to focus today on Pakistan. After all, American taxpayers shelled out billions of hard-earned tax dollars in aid that was explicitly justified as necessary to curb Pakistan's bomb program. This aid was provided only after repeated waivers of our nuclear nonproliferation laws. Congress has both the right and the duty to see what happened to these funds.
A review of this evidence will also encourage us to reexamine some old policy assumptions--like the faith some of our leaders have put in transfers of arms and high technology as tools of nuclear nonproliferation--and to appreciate the importance of some old fundamentals, like the duty of the Executive to `faithfully execute the laws,' the need for a working relationship between Congress and the Executive, and the public's right to know.
My testimony will address five questions: First, what were Congress and the American taxpayers told about the relationship between U.S. military aid and Pakistan's bomb? Second, how have these claims stood up over time? Third, why did Congress impose nuclear conditions on aid only to Pakistan? Fourth, did the Reagan and Bush administrations implement these conditions as Congress had intended? And finally, where do we go from here?
THE PROMISE OF THE POLICY
Between 1982 and 1990, America provided over $4 billion in assistance to Pakistan, about half of which was military. Some people think this aid was solely intended to get the Soviets out of Afghanistan, a goal we shared with Pakistan. My staff, however, has identified 20 official administration statements claiming since 1981 that military assistance would address Pakistan's security concerns and thereby keep Pakistan from acquiring the bomb. I will submit with my testimony some relevant excerpts.
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Yea, correct, bla,bla,bla. Hey * did I tell you to stick it in your ear lately. <insert anger at contemptuous bastard>
Me don't wonder how stupid how one is, me just wonder about the rest of them going along with it :nopity:
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