>>This investigation has yielded some amazing information. In addition to widespread government cooperation
with the network that has not been reported to the US, A.Q. Khan obtained uranium from Africa, mainly from
Niger, where Valerie Plame’s husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, discovered the evidence that Iraq was trying
to obtain uranium there was a forgery. Most frightening is the extent of Khan’s relationship with bin Laden,
apparently trusted enough to look after bin Laden’s investments in Africa. Only time will tell how much bin Laden
profited, both in monetary terms and in expanding al Qaeda’s WMD potential, from the generosity of Khan’s
nuclear Walmart.
5. Unnamed U.S. Firm - More than 20 firms - including at least one American company - have supplied rogue
nations seeking nuclear arms, marking the first time a U.S. company has been linked to the black market
network.
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei, who is heading a probe into the illicit
sales, avoided specifics on the locations of the companies in an interview with The Associated Press Friday.
But a senior diplomat said at least one was in the United States - the first time in five months of investigations
by the U.N. nuclear agency that an American company has been implicated in the black market network headed
by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Kahn.(
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What American company would possibly have had the means and the motive to risk potentially treasonous
activity by profiting off black market nuclear proliferation to terrorist organizations and their state sponsors? In
the next two sections, an examination into the motives of why Dick Cheney, through his association with
Halliburton, would have wanted a sting operation focused on A.Q. Khan’s nuclear Walmart terminated will be
conducted, as well as an exploration into how the profits from such a treacherous enterprise could possibly have
been laundered.<<