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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 09:47 AM
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‘US officials linked to AQ Khan’s N-network’
Source: Express Buzz

WASHINGTON: Top US officials allowed Pakistan in the 1980s to manufacture and possess nuclear weapons and were aware that the A Q Khan nuclear network was violating American laws, a US based watchdog has told the US Congress, citing a former CIA whistleblower.

Danielle Brian, executive director of Project on Government Oversight, told a Senate panel that CIA officer Richard Barlow, who then worked for the Pentagon, was fired for suggesting that the Congress should be made aware of the situation relating to Pakistan’s nuclear programme.

...

“The brave, honest public servants deserve better than this second-class system.” Bringing up Barlow’s findings, Brian said that working as a CIA counter-proliferation intelligence officer in the 1980s, he learned that “top US officials were allowing Pakistan to manufacture and possess nuclear weapons, and that the A Q Khan nuclear network was violating US laws”.

...

“Top officials at the DoD (Department of Defence) continued to lie about Pakistan’s nuclear programme. Barlow objected and suggested to his supervisors that Congress should be made aware of the situation. Because Barlow merely suggested that Congress should know the truth, Barlow was fired,” she said.

Read more: http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=%E2%80%98US+officials+linked+to+AQ+Khan%E2%80%99s+N-network%E2%80%99&artid=LdWEVTY8Mn4=&SectionID=oHSKVfNWYm0=&MainSectionID=oHSKVfNWYm0=&SectionName=VfE7I/Vl8os=&SEO=A+Q+Khan+nuclear+network
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 09:58 AM
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1. Duh.
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sledgehammer Donating Member (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 10:06 AM
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3. Ditto!
The US only brought up the nuclear issue once the Soviets left Afghanistan, and they no longer needed Pakistan's support. From 1979 to 1990 though, they totally turned a blind eye to all of Pakistan's nuclear plans.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 10:36 AM
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5. Poppy Bush and his BCCI buddies were behind AQ Khan. Global terrorism was a tool for the fascists
intent on ruling every region of the world.

Clinton deepsixing the BCCI report for Poppy Bush, Jackson Stephens, Dubai and Saudi royals allowed BushInc to continue its global agenda throughout the 90s without oversight and re-enter the WH in full force in 2001.
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sledgehammer Donating Member (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 10:59 AM
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7. Certainly as ex-CIA Director and VP
He had knowledge of everything. He was welcomed as a hero in Pakistan when he was VP.

Once he became President, he turned his back on Pakistan very, very quick, and Pakistan began its economic and political decline that persists till today (not entirely US fault at all, but certainly this was a contributing factor).

That's when a lot of anti-US resentment started popping up in the region.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 11:19 AM
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8. He didn't turn his back on the royals...Kerry was uncovering BCCI then and GHWBush had to keep
up an appearance of being uninterested in its financial networks caught up in moneylaundering, drugrunning and armsdealing. Think what BushInc would have accomplished for its fascist agenda by the mid90s if CorpoDems had their way and BCCI was NEVER scrutinized, along with IranContra.
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karynnj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 02:03 PM
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45. Interesting points nt
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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 11:38 AM
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9. OT, somewhat --
but, I remember the deepsixing of the BCCI stuff during the Clinton admin, and I'm getting the same sick feeling with Obama's deepsixing of torture and everything else. Now, with the weird visitor logs secrecy i have to wonder what the hell (or who the hell) gets to these people.

carry on.
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UpInArms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 06:15 PM
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20. If I could recommend a post for its honesty, clarity and informative
value - this would be the one.

:twothumbsup:
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 09:19 PM
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22. Thanks - BCCI has always been ground zero for the fascists and too many are willing to let it stay
buried. Even here at DU.
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cosmicone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 10:04 AM
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2. Like I always said ...
Pakistan is an illegitimate "country" created by the nefarious British and exists solely for the pleasure of the Americans and now the Chinese.

It has become a menace to the world and needs to be balkanized into smaller countries to remove the threat.
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Soylent Brice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 10:21 AM
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4. SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE


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Torn_Scorned_Ignored Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 10:43 AM
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6. Seems like the US Gov doesn't care much
for folks who work on CIA counter-proliferation intelligence.


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Myrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 01:48 PM
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10. I am continually reminded, and perplexed ...
... that during the debates etc leading up to 2000, the only 'foreign leader' Dimson could name off the top of his head was Pervez Musharraf - of Pakistan - who had recently been "elected".

Something about that still doesn't sit right with me. :tinfoilhat:
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Diclotican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:45 AM
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30.  Myrina
Myrina

Mr Dimson never rembembered the name Pevez Musharaff, even after been "coatched" many times, and given more hints than a 5 year shild he still could't rembember the name, and was refering to mr Musharaff, as the "general".. The Infamous 2000 interew was given me the doubts that he was capable of beeing the President of something... Specially NOT the United States - and then he was "elected" as President in US, even that you had one of the more capable Vice Presidens aviable.. (amazing if you ask me, to pick the worst of the worst, not just one time, but twince...)

Diclotican
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earcandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 01:50 PM
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11. have we been breeding suicide bombers in Pakistan?
like cloning animals with tasks?
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closeupready Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 01:58 PM
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12. i'll wait until this story, sourced from an obscure site, is corroborated by MSM.
But even assuming it's true, not sure why anyone should care.
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 02:44 PM
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15. here's Dainelle Brians testimony to Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
http://www.pogo.org/pogo-files/testimony/whistleblower-issues/wi-wp-20090611.html

<snip>

Richard Barlow

Working as a CIA counter-proliferation intelligence officer in the 1980s, Richard Barlow learned that top U.S. officials were allowing Pakistan to manufacture and possess nuclear weapons, and that the A.Q. Khan nuclear network was violating U.S. laws. He also discovered that top officials were hiding these activities from Congress. After engineering the arrests of Khan’s nuclear agents operating in the U.S., Mr. Barlow left to work for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Top officials at the DoD continued to lie about Pakistan’s nuclear program. Mr. Barlow objected and suggested to his supervisors that Congress should be made aware of the situation. Because Barlow merely suggested that Congress should know the truth, Mr. Barlow was fired. In 1998, following seven years of congressionally directed investigations by three IGs and the GAO, a virtually unanimous bipartisan majority in Congress and the President of the United States concluded that Mr. Barlow deserved to be compensated with relief. However, a bill to pay him minimal damages was blocked in the federal claims court where the executive branch invoked the President’s State Secrets Privilege.<27>
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 05:55 PM
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19. this information was reported long ago
in the book Outlaw Bank by Gwynne and Beatty, former Time magazine reporters.

They noted that the Saudi head of intel at the time that Bush Sr. was head of intel (Bush denied knowledge of the guy, who is one of the Saudi Royal Family - and Bush is tight with that family) talked about Bush selling nuclear components to Pakistan.

At the time, the U.S. was afraid of India. India was friendly with Russia at the time, so, in the logic of mutual assured stupidity, the hawks wanted Pakistan to also have a nuclear capability to counter India.
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IthinkThereforeIAM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:17 AM
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29. This is actually old news...

...corroborated and verified long ago to many of us. A Q Khan network leads straight to Cheney. And I do not say this to be vindictive or petty. The outing of Valerie Plame is in the middle of this somewhere, too.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 06:06 AM
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33. citizens NOT caring allowed Clinton to deepsix BCCI matters throughout the 90s and that led to.....
WHAT? Think about it.....exposing Poppy Bush and his thugs to greater scrutiny on these matters would have assured that none of them could ever return to power.

The exposure would have carried to other countries where some of the leaders and terror networks involved would have been seen as working WITH Bush to destabilize their regions prompting a rejection of those figures.

Global terror networks would have been exposed long ago as tools...there would have been no 9-11 event....and no Bush - or Cheney - would ever have been allowed anywhere near the White House.
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Raksha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 02:00 PM
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13. K & R - not that this is any big surprise to a lot of us.
But I'm glad it's finally coming out in a way that can't be ignored.
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4dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 02:38 PM
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14. I heard about this years ago..
Its good that its finally making news again..
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navarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 02:48 PM
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16. Isn't this what Sibel Edmonds was talking about??
maybe I'm wrong here, can't quite remember.
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troubledamerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 02:25 AM
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27. DING DING DING -- You Win A NEW CAR!
Day after day I wonder why I pour time into this energy sink called DU, in which nobody but a handful seem to get it.

SIBEL EDMONDS WAS TALKING ABOUT EXACTLY THIS.

Thank you for getting it right. One in a million.

Holy. Fuck. Democrats seem to read as much as George W. Bush. Jeezuz.
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cascadiance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 05:50 AM
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31. YEP! And note that this article was from the LONDON Times, not the NY Times
Edited on Thu Jun-18-09 05:51 AM by cascadiance
The Korporate U.S. media has had over a year to look at what they were looking at, and we're finding this out now?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3137695.ece

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3257725.ece

And people can't understand why she's upset now with our media? She KNOWS how complicit they are in the mess we're in now!
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 09:20 AM
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40. BINGO
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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 03:04 PM
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17. Isnt this treason???
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 05:22 PM
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18. There was $MILLIONS of loot in an unregulated market....
...of course US Officials were involved.
Thats how they roll!
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 07:21 PM
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21. If you are a neo-fascist, Republicans will help you...
I noticed the new McCarthyesque loyalty oaths to become US citizens have only the communist party denial in them. So if one is a fascist, no trap for that person awaiting and instant voting for the republican ally.
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pauldp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 09:19 PM
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23. Crazy Conspiracy Theory! Send this to the Dungeon! NOW!
:sarcasm:
Actually most of this information including the story of Barlow was well documented a couple of years ago in the book "Deception" by Adrian Levy & Catherne Scott-Clark

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Deception/Adrian-Levy/e/9780802715548

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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 02:57 PM
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47. DU is a cesspool of guilt ridden jackasses who set up those forums for
the express goal of derailing intelligent discussion of topics they were too fucking lazy to learn about. Now that they see we were right they are reacting with hostility instead of humility.

DU is a Right-Wing Psy-ops training ground enabled by a brain dead adminstration
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number6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 10:37 PM
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24. interesting
mmmm >>WASHINGTON: Top US officials allowed Pakistan in the 1980s to manufacture and possess nuclear weapons and were aware that the A Q Khan nuclear network was violating American laws...
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robertpaulsen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 11:58 PM
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25. This is why we cannot be "looking forward" until we punish criminals for past offenses!
Because unpunished government criminals can always come back to power in a subsequent criminal administration!


Quick: Who was Assistant Secretary of Defense when Richard Barlow was fired?



Hmmm?



Too hard?



OK, here's an easier one: Who was Secretary of Defense back in 1989 when Richard Barlow was fired?



Ahhh...now we're getting somewhere!



From wikipedia:



Richard Barlow is an American intelligence analyst and a former senior member of the counter-proliferation desk at the Central Intelligence Agency who lost his job when he acted as a whistleblower about the George H. W. Bush administration's misleading Congress over Pakistan's nuclear programme. Following several investigations, he was vindicated in 1997; unable to collect a government pension, he lives in a trailer in Montana.


Barlow entered the intelligence community with two years of work at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He then, in 1985, entered the CIA, where he collated and examined information about nuclear programs in the Third World. He worked on the National Intelligence Estimates, and won the CIA's Exceptional Accomplishment Award in 1988<1>.

In 1989, Barlow transferred to the office of the Secretary of Defense, where he initiated an in-house intelligence analysis programme. He was in a chain of command below Stephen J. Hadley, then Assistant Secretary of Defense; the Secretary of Defense was Dick Cheney. His early work included an effort to sound the alarm about the now-discredited Pakistani nuclear scientist and proliferator, Abdul Qadeer Khan. In particular, he discovered that Pakistan's nuclear program depended upon clandestine and illegal procurement activity within the US<2>. The US administration, however, knew that this was the case; indeed, his report detailed occasions when the State department under Ronald Reagan had actually helped it happen, warning targets of sealed arrest warrants in FBI operations and approving export licenses for restricted goods.

During the debate over the sale of F-16s to Pakistan in 1989, the U.S. administration was constrained by the 1985 Pressler amendment of the Foreign Assistance Act which prohibited the sale of any matériel or armaments which might assist in the development or delivery of nuclear weapons. Barlow's analysis of Pakistan's nuclear programme indicated that Pakistan possessed the capability to use the fighters to drop nuclear bombs, and the report which he submitted to Dick Cheney concluded that the F-16 sale indisputably violated the law. He drew on details available to the intelligence community about how Pakistan had used the F-16s it already possessed<1>.

Barlow then learned that Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Arthur Hughes had delivered testimony to Congress that stated the exact opposite, including the statement that using F-16s to deliver nuclear weapons "far exceeded the state of art in Pakistan," which Barlow knew to be untrue. Barlow believed that the details had been "willfully falsified by officials at the Office of the Secretary of Defense"<2>, including then-Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Paul Wolfowitz and then-Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Scooter Libby. On examining the archives he discovered that his reports were "mysteriously substituted or altered"<3>.

Within days of Barlow's sharing his concerns with colleagues at the Department of Defense he was fired.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barlow



For anyone who wants more than a cursory knowledge of how these highlighted criminals become more firmly entrenched in the Deep State during the 21st century, please read the 1st and 2nd editions of American Judas links in my signature in their entirety.
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BlueMTexpat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 03:39 AM
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28. +1!
:applause:

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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 05:55 AM
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32. No one will see this...you need to repost and combine the OP's article with your info.
Hopefully, more DUrs will open their eyes and finally acknowledge that what this nation and world has gone through the last two decades could have been STOPPED and widely exposed long ago.
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robertpaulsen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 01:48 PM
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44. Good idea.
I'll try to put something together in General Discussion. DUers by and large pretty much already know it's not enough to "look forward", but I think I can tie this in with why it's also not enough to establish a "Commission" to uncover the "Truth". South Africa had a Truth Commission. They uncovered the truth about a lot of political abuses committed under apartheid. But are the lives of black South Africans any better now?

Maybe my aim is too ambitious, but I think we need to start looking at reestablishing justice in this country not just politically, but economically too. Funny how those same criminals in the political sphere end up profiting economically from their crimes as well. It's not enough to know the truth, that truth must be used to punish them so they can never repeat their crimes, and so like-minded compadres will think twice about trying to pull the same shenanigans.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 03:23 PM
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50. check your pm
.
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robertpaulsen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:08 PM
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51. Thanks. Here's my GD post on this.
The Lesson of Richard Barlow: "Looking Forward" without punishing past offenses will destroy you.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5876386

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IrishBuckeye Donating Member (336 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 08:59 AM
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38. Nominated for post of the week/month/year /nm
/nm
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Strong Atheist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 11:12 AM
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42. Welcome to DU!



:toast:
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 01:36 PM
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43. I hope he reposts it so more eyeballs get a chance to see it.
.
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InfiniteThoughts Donating Member (322 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 12:47 AM
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26. nothing here boys, move on ...
what happened when US turned blind eye to Pak nuclear programme goes beyond it's own boundaries. They ended up exporting nuclear bomb building technology to North Korea (proven) and Iran (? - Doubtful!) ...

this data will never be highlighted by the right-wingers: Reagan & Bush turning a blind eye to Pak nuclear programme has precipitated the North Korea crisis ...

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cascadiance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 06:25 AM
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34. Some other interesting stories on this morning's radar (Bolton, Jane Harman, etc.) on this topic...
Edited on Thu Jun-18-09 06:37 AM by cascadiance
From:
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=80775

US approves bill of $1.5 bln non-military aid to Pakistan
Updated at: 1850 PST, Wednesday, June 17, 2009
by Sami Abraham
WASHINGTON: The unanimous approval of Enhanced partnership with Pakistan act of 2009 (bill s-962) by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, here on Tuesday, has brought Pakistan another step closer to receive the annual non-military economic assistance of $ 1.5 billion for next five years.

Senator John Kerry, Chairman of US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hailed the measure as a "strong bipartisan effort" to help people of Pakistan and said that anti-Taliban military offensive has given hope in the context of curbing militancy and fostering peace in the area. He said it is very critical that US provide required assistance to Pakistan, immediately, and millions of displaced people are brought back to their homes safely.

Senator Kerry and Senator Lugar also urged the US senate to pass the bill as soon as possible.

The US House of Representatives has already approved, last Thursday, a Bill HR1463 to tripple the developmental economic assistance to Pakistan (making it $ 1.5 billion annually) for the next five years. Though the US House dropped, controversial specific demands to access Dr A.Q. Khan and prevention of future terrorist attacks against India, it still puts it as a condition that Islamabad would have to provide “access to Pakistani nationals” connected to proliferation networks” and prevent future terrorists attacks into neighboring countries”.
...


HMMMM!... I WONDER who in the House insisted on getting those pieces dropped from that bill! Something else to hide?

And a Greta Van Susteren interview with old UN nemesis John Bolton earlier yesterday, where Bolton looks to tie Mousavi with the AQ Kahn nuclear arms network...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526823,00.html

Prelude to a Revolution

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

This is a rush transcript from "On the Record," June 16, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Well, it's big, tens of thousands, and it is violent, the protests in Iran. We haven't seen anything like this in Iran since the 1979 revolution. Protesters yelling that the presidential election was rigged and the government is lying in saying Ahmadinejad won 63 percent of the vote. And then after explosive public outrage, the ayatollah is now calling for an inquiry, and the Guardian Council says it will conduct a partial recount. Partial recount? Well, that's not satisfying Ahmadinejad's opponents. They are demanding a new election.

Meanwhile, what about the U.S.? What should we do? Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton joins us. Nice to see you, Ambassador.

...

VAN SUSTEREN: Well, Mousavi -- I was doing a little research. When he ran for president in the early 1980s, that apparently, there were a thousand of his opponents who were executed right before his election. So it's not exactly -- I mean, I'm not so sure that we have a real grip on what we're getting, even if there is a revolution.

BOLTON: Well, he was the Ayatollah Khomeini's prime minister. I mean, let's get started there. So that qualifies him. He is the person who negotiated with A.Q. Khan to set up the beginnings of the Islamic revolution's nuclear weapons program. He's fully committed to Iranian terrorism, a lot of it began under his administration. So whatever changes there might be inside Iran, make no mistake, the foreign policy would remain essentially the same.

VAN SUSTEREN: And if the viewers have forgotten, A.Q. Khan is a Pakistani who is -- who is the godfather of nuclear weapons in Pakistan and who is thought to have been also the Wal-Mart of nuclear weapons...

BOLTON: The great entrepreneur, exactly.

VAN SUSTEREN: ... with North Korea, spreading technology to North Korea. What should the United States be doing at this point?

...


Hmm... Perhaps even more reasons why Sibel Edmonds is nervous right now on her blog about the way the corporate media is manipulating the stories coming out of Iran on this election... I sense another scheme going on under the covers too, as she does from what Bolton is saying here...

And that's not all! Another "usual suspect" who's been active on this issue recently is none other than the notorious AIPAC drone congress critter, Jane Harman! Now she's spoken strongly (probably on the above mentioned bill) to have parts of this bill retained to have a condition that Pakistan take action against AQ Kahn in it too... It sounds like from the other article that this language replaced some earlier more extensive planks on dealing with AQ Kahn, though its hard to tell just by looking at this article. Hmmmm... There's something that we're not being told going on behind the scenes here I think!

http://www.rttnews.com/Content/Policy.aspx?Id=982843

US Policy News
Link Aid To Pakistan To Non-Proliferation: Congresswoman

6/18/2009 5:42 AM ET
(RTTNews) - A prominent American lawmaker has insisted that any further aid to Pakistan should be linked to its commitment to non-proliferation as also action against its disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadir Khan, who has been shielded from the U.S. despite pumping billions of dollars in aid to Islamabad, reports indicate.

"Pakistan has 60 to 100 nukes. It also harbors A.Q. Khan, a Pakistani hero but an international outlaw, who, at least according to the Dutch, stole European technology to give Pakistan the bomb... and created a network which supplied--we know this--Iran, North Korea (with nuclear materials and know-how) and was going to supply Libya," Congresswoman Jane Harman said.

The Democratic law-maker from California, along with Howard Berman, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, authored a bill passed by the House of Representatives last week that imposes strict restrictions on Pakistan to obtain American aid.

"As for my bill... it says that in order for Pakistan to get non-military aid and military aid in 2010, our President has to certify that efforts are being taken by the Pakistani government to stop proliferation," Harman said.


Other articles on this:

http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20090617_1434.php

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Aid-to-Pak-must-be-linked-to-non-proliferation--US-Lawmaker/477284

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/105782
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cosmicone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 07:55 AM
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35. I have no idea why the admin and congress are so spineless
What would be the harm in attaching several stern conditions on the aid?

Without the aid, Pakistan would cease to exist the way it is. So its leaders who are constant beggars will accede.

I find it painful that my tax dollars are going to arm a tinpot terrorist country which would use those arms against my friends and family in India.

The very fact that Pakistanis don't want conditions such as no terrorist attacks against India speaks of their real intentions.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 08:55 AM
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37. In one of Kerry's interviews he said more aid money HAS to get directly to the people
to positively effect their every day lives if the US wants to divert the spread of terrorism in Pakistan. My guess is that other government figures know that money gets used for covert ops which, imo, breed MORE terrorism.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 07:57 AM
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36. Bolton, Cheney and Bush always make reference to Khan as if they have him targeted - pure dogandpony
Edited on Thu Jun-18-09 08:00 AM by blm
show to distract from their historical involvement with Khan and other global terrorist networks funded through BCCI.

The damage to world security done by Khan was already done YEARS AGO and WITH the knowledge and support of all the principal players in BCCI, including Dubai and Saudi royals, GHWBush and Jackson Stephens.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 03:18 PM
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48. HOLY SH!! Read this....
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BR_Parkway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 09:19 AM
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39. Valerie Plame and her network - enough said
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AlphaCentauri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 10:23 AM
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41. So the Taliban were very close to get their nukes to kick the Russians out
the people we have to hangup with to destroy the communist
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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 02:35 PM
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46. Bush nixed investigation into Khan's network in 2001...
Edited on Thu Jun-18-09 02:43 PM by happydreams
Since DU'ers are such a lazy crop of ignorant asses, including the adminstration, it doesn't really matter whether I post this material. Only those already in the know (about a dozen or two)will take the time to digest it.

I hope those who have treated the researchers here like conspiracy nuts choke on their words.

(snip)

The Bush Administration has expressed shock at disclosures that Pakistan, our ally in the war on terror, has been running a nuclear secrets bazaar. In fact, according to the British news teams' sources within US intelligence agencies, shortly after President Bush's inauguration, his National Security Agency (NSA) effectively stymied the probe of Khan Research Laboratories, the Pakistani agency in charge of the bomb project. CIA and other agents told BBC they could not investigate the spread of “Islamic Bombs” through Pakistan because funding appeared to originate in Saudi Arabia.

Greg Palast and David Pallister received a California State University Project Censored Award for this expose based on the story broadcast by Palast on BBC television's top current affairs program.

According to both sources and documents obtained by the BBC, the Bush Administration “spike” of the investigation of Dr. Khan’s Lab followed from a wider policy of protecting key Saudi Arabians including the Bin Laden family.


more...
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=312&row=0

related (long)
The mysterious world of Pakistan`s Dr Strangelove


The mysterious world of Pakistan's Dr Strangelove
By Jan McGirk
07 February 2004

"The whole point of the doomsday machine is lost ... if you keep it a secret," ranted Dr Strangelove in Stanley Kubrick's dark, satirical film four decades ago. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the newly disgraced father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme, seems to have taken this advice to heart, blithely distributing nuclear secrets and components over a period of many years to Iran, Libya and North Korea. But the full extent of his largesse and the full explanation for it remain matters of urgent doubt.

This week's televised humbling of Dr Khan transfixed Pakistani viewers in much the same way as the unveiling of the Hutton report gripped Britain. Like Hutton, it has left many people wondering precisely how much of the truth remains untold. Following weeks of rumours and speculation, Dr Khan admitted on Wednesday's evening news to decades of systematic leaking, right under the noses of MI6 and the CIA, not to mention Pakistan's own all-seeing military spies, the ISI (InterServices Intelligence Agency).

(snip)

After graduating from Karachi University, he moved to Europe for further studies. In the early 1970s, he found a job at a uranium enrichment plant in the Netherlands run by the British-Dutch-German consortium Urenco. In 1976, he left in a hurry for Pakistan.

He was subsequently convicted in absentia by a Dutch court of attempted espionage relating to Urenco's centrifuge blueprints and sentenced to four years in prison, only for the judgment to be overturned on appeal. Yet Dr Khan had returned to Pakistan with enough knowledge to set in motion what had hitherto been considered beyond the nation's reach: a nuclear weapons programme.


much more...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?stor...



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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 03:21 PM
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49. Read this....evidently this info is coming up again because a senate investigator in Switzerland
Edited on Thu Jun-18-09 03:21 PM by blm
has been digging around.....and some people are NOT happy.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=273x157739
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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-19-09 02:20 PM
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52. Thanks, as always, for sharing this. At the heart of this lies the
Edited on Fri Jun-19-09 02:22 PM by happydreams
secret of how these fascist slime control the world. Some years after WWII a famous Nazi war hero named Otto Skorzeny, then on the payroll of the CIA, took the ratline to the Mid-East and set up terrorist training camps the students of which were used to destabilize governments that did not toe the internationalists line. Arafat, Nasser and Sadat where taught in these camps. They were used to create a perpetual conflict situation for perpetual profits of the MIC. If the human race survives it will be only when these bastards are eliminated. They are fascists whose only qualm with Hitler in that he didn't plan his conquest very well.

PS. I found out from a friend of mine that I have been on the FBI watch list for 20 years. I have caught a few operatives following me since Bush stole the presidency.
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