Nuclear Proliferation, Terrorism and Deceit: America’s Deadly Game

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Call it a coincidence, but one headline you’re not likely to have read just days after the Mumbai terrorist attacks concerned the quiet release by Swiss authorities of Urs Tinner. One of the key players in Pakistan’s nuclear proliferation network run by “rogue” scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan and the military, Tinner had been held in administrative detention for nearly four years.

This is all the more ironic given that Dawood Ibrahim, the drugs kingpin, terrorist operative and underworld crime boss who allegedly helped infiltrate Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) commandos into Mumbai, is long-suspected of providing similar “expertise” to A.Q. Khan’s shadowy nuclear black market through a web of dodgy Dubai-based companies.

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. . . . at the center of this spider’s web of nuclear proliferation, terrorism and deceit sits the United States. After all, Khan’s shady activities have been well-known for decades and yet, to secure advantage over their capitalist rivals, the U.S. has been content to exploit Pakistan as a cats’ paw for destabilizing covert operations in dozens of global hot spots from Asia to the Balkans and beyond. But you wouldn’t know this by even the most cursory perusal of The New York Times.

One (among many) examples of the Times’ shoddy reporting and journalistic duplicity in the service of Pentagon war planners, was brought to light by Russ Wellen in Asia Times. Last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine featured an alarmist screed by David Sanger, “The Worst Pakistan Nightmare for Obama.”

MUCH more at link
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/nuclear-proliferation-terrorism-and-deceit-americas-deadly-game/