Libya Paid Pakistani $100 Million in Nuclear Deals -US

[varun]

When will they tell us the truth...its not just AQ Khan, but the Pakistani military that was responsible for nuclear proliferation?

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4572520

Mon Mar 15, 2004 05:31 PM ET

By Adam Entous
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Libya paid at least $100 million to the nuclear arms network run by the father of Pakistan's atom bomb for equipment needed in Tripoli's own drive to build a bomb, U.S. officials said on Monday.

A senior Bush administration official said Libya became a "very lucrative" business for Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani scientist who admitted also selling nuclear secrets to Iran and North Korea but was pardoned by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf....

...The United States has chosen not to criticize Musharraf's pardon of Khan, partly out of fear that a public trial could implicate many in the Pakistani elite and undermine Musharraf's rule in Pakistan. Musharraf's support is crucial to U.S. operations against al Qaeda in next-door Afghanistan...

[lastknowngood]

1. also note though stated in the article BCCI the CIA bank used

for money laundering deals with drug dealers and Iran for the Iran contra deal. Just one big happy family.