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" U.S. OFFICIALS who spoke on condition of anonymity told NBC News on Friday that Pakistan, a key ally in the U.S. war on terrorism, was a major technology supplier of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
Pakistan, which the United States says is a key ally in the war on terrorism, on Friday denied the allegation.
However, officials inside and outside the U.S. government said that an extensive technology exchange between North Korea and Pakistan had been overseen by Khan, Pakistan’s legendary nuclear scientist.
“It does make sense, doesn’t it?” said one U.S. official, noting that North Korea provided Pakistan with at least a dozen of its Nodung missiles in early 1998. Both the Ghauri and Pakistan’s nuclear program are under control of the eponymous A.Q. Khan laboratories in Kahuta, outside Islamabad, the Pakistani capital.
A CIA spokesman said the agency could neither confirm nor deny the report of Khan’s involvement in the technology exchange.

“Khan visited North Korea in the late 1990s,” a reliable source outside the government said, noting that the eminent scientist provided “information and technology” to the North Koreans and also hosted a delegation from Pyongyang in Pakistan.
After Pakistan’s President Gen. Pervez Musharraf seized power in 1998, Khan was removed from day-to-day dealings at the laboratories. “He was kicked upstairs,” as one official put it.

WAR ON TERRORISM
News of the participation of a top Pakistani government employee in North Korea’s nuclear quest comes at a crucial time — when Washington is relying heavily on Pakistan as a partner in its war on terrorism.

Underscoring Pakistan’s role in the U.S. campaign, Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, was in Pakistan on Friday to observe part of a three-week joint exercise of U.S. and Pakistani troops.
Such exercises had been suspended after Pakistan conducted nuclear tests in May, 1998.
The U.S. officials said Khan’s expertise in producing enriched uranium for weapons was crucial to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, who in turn provided Pakistan with missile technology that gave Islamabad’s rocket forces the capability of striking nuclear rival India.

North Korea reportedly admitted to the secret nuclear weapons program during meetings with a senior State Department official in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Oct. 4, putting it in violation of the 1994 Agreed Framework, under which it agreed to halt the program in exchange for economic aid.

In agreement, earlier this year, President Bush said North Korea formed part of an “axis of evil” with Iran and Iraq.
North Korea’s violation has once again upset the delicate balance on the Korean Peninsula, where some 37,000 American troops keep the peace between the North and South on one of the last frontiers of the Cold War.

ANTI-WEST LEANINGS
The participation of Pakistan’s Khan in the nuclear transfer to North Korea comes as no surprise, U.S. officials say.
Latest news on North Korea
Seen in the West as a scientific rogue, Khan is outspoken and critical of Western values.
In the 1970s, Dutch authorities accused Khan of filching the secret formula for processing uranium until it was bomb-grade from right under the noses of his trusting hosts in the Netherlands, where he was working at a nuclear institute.

Born in Bhopal, India, in 1935, Khan’s legendary joviality masks a bitter past. Like millions of Muslims, Khan’s family was forced to flee India to Pakistan during the partition of British India, an event Khan has lamented in speeches over the years.
Precocious, Khan was able to breeze through science courses, first in Pakistan and then in Europe, ultimately earning a doctorate from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium in 1972.
That year, he went to work for the Physical Dynamics Research Laboratory, or FDO, in Amsterdam. FDO was a subsidiary of a Dutch firm, Verenigde Mchine-Fabrieken, which in turn worked closely with one of Western Europe’s most important nuclear facilities: URENCO.
Because they were unwilling to rely on U.S. nuclear fuel for their power reactors, Great Britain, Germany and the Netherlands created URENCO in 1970 to guarantee their own supply of enriched uranium, the same fuel used in the Hiroshima bomb.

An enrichment plant was built in Almelo, Holland, and used highly classified ultracentrifuge technology to separate scarce, highly fissionable U-235 from abundant U-238 by spinning the two isotopes at up to 100,000 revolutions a minute. FDO was an URENCO subcontractor and consultant.

ACCESS TO NUCLEAR SECRETS
Shortly after being hired, Khan was sent to Almelo, where, as the months passed, he became thoroughly familiar not only with all the design plans at the plant but with those belonging to the companies that supplied parts for the ultracentrifuges.
Khan’s most important trip to Almelo was made in the autumn of 1974, when he spent 16 days in the plant’s most secret area. His assignment was to translate a highly classified report on a breakthrough in centrifuge technology from German to Dutch.
Asked by co-workers why he was writing in a foreign script, Khan replied that it was only a letter to his family back home, according to a former colleague. Another colleague noticed that he continually roamed around the factory, notebook in hand.
In January 1976, Khan and his family suddenly left Holland and turned up in Pakistan. His wife wrote to her former neighbors that they were on vacation and that her husband had fallen ill. Soon afterward, Khan himself sent a letter of resignation to FDO, effective that March.

The disputed mountain region, held by India, but struggling for independence, is rife with violence, rich with beauty.
U.S. officials say Khan managed to steal secrets that were the most closely guarded industrial gems in Western Europe. Of equal importance to the technical materials was a list of suppliers to URENCO, the companies across Europe that made the components he needed to obtain for Pakistan.
An investigation by the Dutch turned up no evidence that he was sent to the Netherlands as a spy. Nor is it clear whether he approached the Pakistani government or the other way around.

SUCCESS REWARDED
Khan soon rose to head the nascent Pakistani program and from its new headquarters in Kahuta, south of Islamabad, obtained critical technology and equipment to complement what he had learned in the Netherlands.

Khan became a national hero: a scientist-manager on a par with nuclear experts like Iraqi’s Jafar Dia Jafar and Israel’s Yuval Neeman, both Western-educated but considered ultimate patriots in their countries.
Khan has kept a low profile in recent years, refusing interview requests by foreign journalists. However, he has been known to direct his anger at the West and Israel. In the 1980s, Khan said: “All Western countries, including Israel, are not only the enemies of Pakistan but in fact of Islam. Had any other Muslim country instead of Pakistan made this progress, they would have conducted the same poisonous propaganda about it. The examples of Iraq and Libya are before you.”

Robert Windrem is an investigative producer for NBC News.

Read the dates invovled. Unlike bowser-world, WHEN things happens matters.
You are a fool.
Ed

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