09-02-2009, 12:52 PM
This is today's news:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090209/twl-...f21e0.html
reed nuclear bomb scientist's 'no threat'
Monday, February 9 11:33 am
Western powers have criticised a court ruling in Pakistan to free a disgraced nuclear scientist who sold secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya. Skip related content
The ruling by Pakistan's high court ended five years of house arrest for Abdul Qadeer Khan, who is at the centre of the world's most serious nuclear proliferation scandal.
Western powers have raised concerns about the risk of more proliferation.
But Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said in Europe on the weekend the government had broken up Khan's network and he no longer had any say on, or access to, any area of Pakistan's nuclear programme.
Mr Qureshi also said the government reserved the right to appeal against last Friday's court ruling.
"That option is there," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit, referring to Mr Qureshi's comments on a possible appeal.
"But I would hasten to add that as far as we are concerned, as we have said time and again, this chapter is closed."
Khan, praised by many Pakistanis as the father of the country's atomic bomb, was pardoned but placed under house arrest in 2004 by then president Pervez Musharraf.
Soon after Khan made a televised confession to selling nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya.
Pakistani authorities denied any connection to Khan's proliferation network but never let foreign investigators question him, saying it had interrogated him and passed on all relevant information.
Nevertheless, international experts investigating proliferation still want to question him.
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The following is the reason:
http://www.chowk.com/articles/11146
Why did CIA protect Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan
Mansoor Ahmed September 6, 2006
In an interview to a Dutch radio, VPRO Argos Radio on August 9, 2005, Dr Lubbers, the former Dutch Prime Minister revealed that the Pakistani metallurgist Dr A.Q. Khan was arrested in 1975 for espionage and in 1988 for illegal entry into Holland. On both occasions he was allowed to go scot-free because of the CIA’s intervention.
In 1992, according to Dr Lubbers, Dr A.Q.Khan wanted to visit Holland to see his ailing father-in-law (his wife is a Dutch). While he was for refusing visa to Dr A.Q.Khan, the case for visa was sponsored by no less a person than the head of the Dutch secret service, BVD, Arthur Dokters Van Leeuwen. A BVD person received Dr A.Q.Khan on his arrival at Schipol airport. The BVD was presumably acting under instructions from American intelligence agencies.
Dr Lubbers said: "If you were to study the archives, you would find that the American intelligence agencies -- I am absolutely certain of it -- kept a record of how closely they watched the man and what he was upto, etc. They thought as such they were doing a terrific job."
When it was pointed out by the presenter of the programme that still Dr A Q Khan continued, Dr Lubbers replied, “Yes, but that is the shortcoming of the management. And yes, that’s when we saw it was the leader of the free world. And we do take quite seriously the fact that they did a lot of good things. But they were not able to subdue the monster of proliferation, to put it that way.”
Complimenting the Dutch secret service, on doing a good job, Dr Lubbers concluded, “The BVD reported it to its counterpart in Washington. The counterpart in Washington then follows a course that amounts to let him go and we will gain more information. And that is where things start to go wrong.”
He added as a final thought: “It also indicates the peculiar situation that important problems are handled by the intelligence agencies. There is something unhealthy about it.”
Contrary to what Mr Bush, Mr Blair and Mr Tenet said, A.Q.Khan was not only under close watch of the CIA during the period he was proliferating to Iran but was also helped by the CIA and the Dutch secret service to get entry visa to Holland in 1992. That would indicate that there has been considerable economising of truth with regard to the CIA’s relationship with A.Q.Khan by both US and British leaderships going back to 1975.
It seems that the CIA wanted to keep track of A.Q.Khan’s activities so that they could get more information on Pakistan’s nuclear program.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090209/twl-...f21e0.html
reed nuclear bomb scientist's 'no threat'
Monday, February 9 11:33 am
Western powers have criticised a court ruling in Pakistan to free a disgraced nuclear scientist who sold secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya. Skip related content
The ruling by Pakistan's high court ended five years of house arrest for Abdul Qadeer Khan, who is at the centre of the world's most serious nuclear proliferation scandal.
Western powers have raised concerns about the risk of more proliferation.
But Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said in Europe on the weekend the government had broken up Khan's network and he no longer had any say on, or access to, any area of Pakistan's nuclear programme.
Mr Qureshi also said the government reserved the right to appeal against last Friday's court ruling.
"That option is there," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit, referring to Mr Qureshi's comments on a possible appeal.
"But I would hasten to add that as far as we are concerned, as we have said time and again, this chapter is closed."
Khan, praised by many Pakistanis as the father of the country's atomic bomb, was pardoned but placed under house arrest in 2004 by then president Pervez Musharraf.
Soon after Khan made a televised confession to selling nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya.
Pakistani authorities denied any connection to Khan's proliferation network but never let foreign investigators question him, saying it had interrogated him and passed on all relevant information.
Nevertheless, international experts investigating proliferation still want to question him.
***
The following is the reason:
http://www.chowk.com/articles/11146
Why did CIA protect Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan
Mansoor Ahmed September 6, 2006
In an interview to a Dutch radio, VPRO Argos Radio on August 9, 2005, Dr Lubbers, the former Dutch Prime Minister revealed that the Pakistani metallurgist Dr A.Q. Khan was arrested in 1975 for espionage and in 1988 for illegal entry into Holland. On both occasions he was allowed to go scot-free because of the CIA’s intervention.
In 1992, according to Dr Lubbers, Dr A.Q.Khan wanted to visit Holland to see his ailing father-in-law (his wife is a Dutch). While he was for refusing visa to Dr A.Q.Khan, the case for visa was sponsored by no less a person than the head of the Dutch secret service, BVD, Arthur Dokters Van Leeuwen. A BVD person received Dr A.Q.Khan on his arrival at Schipol airport. The BVD was presumably acting under instructions from American intelligence agencies.
Dr Lubbers said: "If you were to study the archives, you would find that the American intelligence agencies -- I am absolutely certain of it -- kept a record of how closely they watched the man and what he was upto, etc. They thought as such they were doing a terrific job."
When it was pointed out by the presenter of the programme that still Dr A Q Khan continued, Dr Lubbers replied, “Yes, but that is the shortcoming of the management. And yes, that’s when we saw it was the leader of the free world. And we do take quite seriously the fact that they did a lot of good things. But they were not able to subdue the monster of proliferation, to put it that way.”
Complimenting the Dutch secret service, on doing a good job, Dr Lubbers concluded, “The BVD reported it to its counterpart in Washington. The counterpart in Washington then follows a course that amounts to let him go and we will gain more information. And that is where things start to go wrong.”
He added as a final thought: “It also indicates the peculiar situation that important problems are handled by the intelligence agencies. There is something unhealthy about it.”
Contrary to what Mr Bush, Mr Blair and Mr Tenet said, A.Q.Khan was not only under close watch of the CIA during the period he was proliferating to Iran but was also helped by the CIA and the Dutch secret service to get entry visa to Holland in 1992. That would indicate that there has been considerable economising of truth with regard to the CIA’s relationship with A.Q.Khan by both US and British leaderships going back to 1975.
It seems that the CIA wanted to keep track of A.Q.Khan’s activities so that they could get more information on Pakistan’s nuclear program.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14