U.S. Hopes to Gain From Pakistan Pardon

[rodbarnett]

Feb 6, 3:06 AM (ET)

By GEORGE GEDDA

WASHINGTON (AP) - He is a black-market profiteer who worked to help Iran and North Korea acquire the nuclear weapons secrets that President Bush said makes them part of an "axis of evil." Yet when scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan received a public pardon Thursday from Pakistan's leader, there was nary a murmur of protest - in fact there was praise - from American officials.

To weapons inspector David Kay and others, it was an outrage.

"I can think of no one who deserves less to be pardoned," said Kay, former head of a U.S. team that searched for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He said Khan was "running essentially a Sam's Club" of weapons technology

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040206/D80HKM300.html

[varun]

1. So Saddam has been captured...

...for suspected possession of WMD.

Pakistan and AKQ are being praised for not only possessing WMD, but proliferating it.

:eyes: