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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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 Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:21 am Post subject: Bhutto smuggled nuclear information to NKorea |
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Bhutto Took Nuclear Data to North Korea, Book Says
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto personally smuggled nuclear information to North Korea in 1993, according to a new book by an author respected by proliferation experts, the Washington Post reported yesterday (see GSN, May 28).
The transfer of detailed information about uranium enrichment came as part of a trade for ballistic missile technology, badly wanted by Pakistani military leaders to balance Indian missile advantages, according to the book Goodbye, Shahzadi by Shyam Bhatia.
�Before leaving Islamabad she shopped for an overcoat with the 'deepest possible pockets' into which she transferred CDs containing the scientific data about uranium enrichment that the North Koreans wanted,� Bhatia says in the book. �She implied with a glint in her eye that she had acted as a two-way courier, bringing North Korea's missile information on CDs back with her on the return journey.�
Bhatia said Bhutto told him the story under promise that he not report it while she was alive. She was assassinated in Pakistan last December (see GSN, Jan. 2).
The story, she said, was �so significant that I had to promise never to reveal it, at least not during her lifetime,� Bhatia says in the book.
However, the story �makes sense,� said nuclear expert David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security. Albright said the timing of the data transfer would correspond to other information suggesting North Korean interest in acquiring uranium enrichment technology.
�He is very smart, a serious guy, and the work he did on the Indian nuclear program has held up really well,� said George Perkovich of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The author is �credible on Bhutto,� added Selig Harrison of the Center for International Policy. �He knew her very well and is a reputable Indian journalist� (Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, June 1). |
http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2008_6_2.html#C3F9574A
The West really need to pick better friends.
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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| she shopped for an overcoat with the 'deepest possible pockets' |
I'm sorry, but this triggered my BS meter. Heads of state have diplomatic immunity and no one looks through any of their stuff when leaving and entering countries. She wouldn't needed to have stuffed her coat pockets with CDs of top secret info. It just sounds phoney. |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject: Re: Bhutto smuggled nuclear information to NKorea |
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| mises wrote: |
The West really need to pick better friends.
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I think its more a case of they have to take whatever they can get. |
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