Pakistani Bomb Scientist Breaks Silence - Khan

[seemslikeadream]

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4964884&page=1

The Pakistani scientist blamed for running a rogue network that sold nuclear secrets to North Korea, Iran and Libya has recanted his confession, telling ABC News the Pakistani government and President Perez Musharraf forced him to be a "scapegoat" for the "national interest."

"I don't stand by that," Dr. A.Q. Khan told ABC News in a 35-minute phone interview from his home in Islamabad, where he has been detained since "confessing" that he ran the nuclear network on his own, without the knowledge of the Pakistani government. The interview will be broadcast Friday on "World News With Charles Gibson."

It was his first interview with an American journalist in a series of telephone interviews he has granted this week, marking the 10th anniversary of Pakistan's first test of a nuclear bomb.

"People were asking a lot of questions, so I said, 'OK. Let me give an answer,'" Khan told ABC News early Friday, Pakistan time







The restrictions were lifted, the agent told me without a hint of dark humor, on September 11.)
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[PufPuf23]

1. That is a creepy Interview with Khan by ABC

A post by AG78 I found on your February 2004 thread:

"Pakistan is our friend. Iraq was the enemy.

We bombed Iraq because we thought they might have nuclear weapons, and might someday sometime on a future date sell one to a terrorist.

We don't bomb Pakistan because we know they have nuclear weapons, and have been selling nuclear technology to countries around the world for the better part of a decade. Oh yeah, and they're helping us with that other guy. The guy we trained 20 years ago. Whatever his name was.

History never dies. We teamed up with Stalin. We teamed up with Hussein. We've done it before, and we'll do it again. We do it in the Central Asian countries today.

I don't know if people don't know it, or if people know it but don't care because as long as the important American people have what they want, we deserve it because we can kick everyone's ass from here to Mars a thousand times over.

As with the Vikings, and the Romans, the Egyptians, the Nazis, the Europeans, and whoever else came before us, we're no different. It's all about power. It's not about freedom for human beings. Never has been. This is just another saga in the long line of geo-political chess games that have been going on forever. It's the struggle against existence itself that's been going on forever.

Why we have to live with the crap that's been thrust upon us from generations(100's, 1000's of years ago), is enough to make you cry. It never stops."

[Peace Patriot]

2. Hey, PufPuf23, welcome to DU! But...take a break, okay? Get some rest and

refreshment. I won't try to convince you that "geo-political chess games" are sometimes balanced by unexpected eruptions of human freedom, beauty, courage and progress, and that history is a gyre not a merry-go-round. In any case, whatever human endeavor amounts to, we are obliged--as Camus thought--to resist and rebel, whatever the odds. Get a massage. Go take a walk in a garden or some wild spot. Cook a nice dinner. Find some place on earth where you can see the Milky Way at night. We're just little granules of consciousness, you know, struggling away to understand everything. Don't take it so hard.

[Octafish]

3. Error: you can only recommend threads which were started in the past 24 hours.

Too bad. This is too important a subject to let go.

Khan was paid by Saudi Arabia and petrodollar wealth laundered through BCCI.

What wimpy fellah let that happen?

What wimpy fellah's dim son continues to cover it up?

[leftchick]

4. you could......

start a new thread which includes this link and elaborate your points. Just a thought. :)

peace,
lc

:hi:

[wildbilln864]

5. kick....

too late to rec. :hi: