Nuclear War Between Koreas: Brought To You By The U.S. Government

[Helen Reyes]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/nuclear-war-...nment.html

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Khan’s collaborator B.S.A. Tahir ran a front company out of Dubai that shipped centrifuge components to North Korea.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.A.E.

Most recently, these relations culminated in a joint nuclear deal for the US to supply the UAE with nuclear technology, expertise and fuel.

compare with http://cryptome.org/0001/cia-merlin.htm

The case officer worked hard to convince him -- even though the officer had doubts about the plan as well. As he was sweet-talking the Russian into flying to Vienna, the case officer wondered whether he was being set up by CIA management, in some dark political or bureaucratic game that he didn't understand. Was he involved in an illegal covert action? Should he expect to be hauled before a congressional committee and grilled because he was the officer who helped give nuclear blueprints to Iran? The code name for this operation was MERLIN; to the officer, that seemed like a wry tip-off that nothing about this program was what it appeared to be. He did his best to hide his concerns from his Russian agent.
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The Russian reluctantly agreed, but he was still clearly suspicious of the CIA's motives.

He was afraid because he fully understood the value of the information he was supposed to pass to the Iranians. He certainly understood it better than did his CIA handlers. Before he defected, he had worked as an engineer at Arzamas-16, the original center of the Soviet nuclear weapons program and the Russian equivalent of Los Alamos, the home of the Manhattan Project.
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Stepping-stones, see http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/aetoc.html under Territorial Disputes:

In 1971 Iranian forces occupied the islands of Abu Musa, Tunb al Kubra (Greater Tumb), and Tunb as Sughra (Lesser Tumb), located at the mouth of the gulf between Iran and the UAE. The Iranians reasserted their historic claims to the islands, although the Iranians had been dislodged by the British in the late nineteenth century. Iran continued to occupy the islands in 1993, and its action remained a source of contention with the UAE, which claimed authority by virtue of Britain's transfer of the islands to the amirates of Sharjah and Ras al Khaymah. By late 1992, Sharjah and Iran had reached agreement with regard to Abu Musa, but Ras al Khaymah had not reached a settlement with Iran concerning Greater Tumb and Lesser Tumb.

Nominally Pakistani BCCI's downfall affected UAE deeply.

See also on the sinking of the South Korean vessel the Cheosan and the forensics of the torpedo found, which metallurgy tests initially indicated came from Germany, http://femalefaust.blogspot.com/2010/05/...-page.html

Three 1,925 ton Type 800 Dolphin class submarines have been built in German shipyards for the Israel Navy.

Multiple theaters for entry into limited nuclear war: Iran/UAE, Pakistan/India, North/South Korea.