Pakistan-Libya Ties a Dilemma for Bush

[whatelseisnew]

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Libya announced last month it was giving up its nuclear, biological and
chemical weapons programs and pledged to name its suppliers.

Officials say many of the names probably will be Pakistani. They say
evidence points to Pakistani nuclear experts as the source of at least some
technology that Libya used, and similar reports have arisen about probable
Pakistani assistance to Iran and North Korea.

``This ought to get front-and-center attention,'' said Henry Sokolski, a
Pentagon arms control official in the first Bush administration.

The United States has shown Pakistan evidence that its scientists were
involved in the spread of nuclear weapons technology, Secretary of State
Colin Powell said last week. Powell said he didn't have enough information to
say whether Pakistan was a source for Libya's program.


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3623393,00.html

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. - - - - Pakistan got Junior by the testicleees ? ?

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``These activities were tightly held, state-run activities,'' said Sokolski, who now heads the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Washington. ``The idea that they would be shared with countries of this sort, without the knowledge of people senior in the government, strikes me as very unlikely.''

Other experts say that if Washington pushes Musharraf too far, Pakistan could scale back its anti-terrorism help. In a worst-case scenario, Musharraf could fall, and Islamic extremists hostile to the United States could get their hands on Pakistan's nuclear technology.

``How do you stop Pakistan? No one has found a way,'' said David Albright, a former United Nations nuclear inspector. ``We have this set of conflicting priorities. The United States is reluctant to crack down too hard.''

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United States reluctant to crack down - hmmmmm

sorta like how the United States treated Saddam until the USA Admin had no more "use" for him :shrug:

Oh well, Pakistan is safe, (and they know it)

- dey got NUKES !

[MetaTrope]

2. 'This ought to get front-and-center attention'

So we know what that means with the Fourth Estate in neo-Nazi America, don't we? a) Dig a deep, dark hole. b) Bury it.