De islamitische bom

[Rabbi Daniel]

Toward an 'Islamic bomb'

By Ze'ev Schiff

One has to be naive to the point of stupidity in order to believe that the Pakistani government did not know about the transfer of nuclear know-how to a number of countries, most of them Muslim, by the person who is considered the father of the Pakistani atomic bomb, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan. This was a complex operation that went on for years and included extensive deals, the movement of equipment, training and managing hefty bank accounts. Scientists, technicians and others worked with Khan. It is inconceivable that neither Pakistani intelligence nor the country's military had no knowledge of these operations.

The contention that President Pervez Musharraf knew nothing means he lost control of developments in his country. At the beginning of the 1990s, Pakistan transferred nuclear know-how to North Korea in return for technological know-how in missile development.

It is unreasonable to think that the government of Pakistan was totally blind to all the other nuclear deals since then.

The latest revelation was accompanied by a performance in which Abdul Qadeer Khan confessed to his deeds and apologized. And, as expected, President Musharraf forgave him.

The whole thing looks like a schoolchild's contrition for a prank. Where are the millions of dollars that entered his bank accounts in return for the nuclear know-how that was made available to other countries? What did the Pakistanis report to the United States about the nuclear transactions? Some of the information was known in Israel, but intelligence here was taken by surprise by Malaysia's involvement in the manufacture of centrifuges for enriching uranium for countries that purchased the know-how from Pakistan.

Without the latest discoveries by experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency at the enrichment facility in Iran, it's doubtful that the president of Pakistan would have responded. It was French inspectors who stated that the equipment at the Iran facility came from Pakistan and that Pakistan had become a leading disseminator of nuclear know-how.

In January 1991, after the nuclear tests in Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, the country's prime minister at the time, promised that Pakistan would step up supervision of the export of nuclear technology. That promise was reiterated by General Musharraf, who ousted Sharif in a coup. Musharraf dismissed the claim that the Pakistani bomb was intended to be the Islamic nuclear weapon.

However, Abdul Qadeer Khan recently offered a different explanation of his actions. He maintains that he planned it all so that the Muslim countries would be able to match the West. The French are reassuring themselves by noting that the secrets were sold to a non-Muslim country as well (North Korea), though that should naturally be seen as the exception that proves the rule.

The nuclear transaction included a new Muslim country, Malaysia, which, as noted, manufactured some of the centrifuges. Some observers are now recalling that in the past, before the Musharraf period, "Pakistani elements" tried to sell centrifuges to Iraq, too, but the Iraqis, apprehensive of a sting operation, rejected the offer. Now, in the light of the new revelations, it's worth reexamining the rumors about Pakistani nuclear plans in conjunction with Saudi Arabia, which in the past funded part of the Pakistani nuclear project.

The latest revelations show that Pakistan constitutes a potential threat that has to be kept under supervision, as India has been saying for some time. Even if General Musharraf is a friend of the United States, no one knows who will succeed him. Pakistan has undergone four coups since its establishment, and all the country's prime ministers have been ousted by the army before serving their full term. Do the Americans know, for example, where the nuclear bombs in Pakistan are stored and who the guards are? Islamist groups are becoming stronger in the country and are infiltrating the army, too. It's more than possible that the affair of Abdul Qadeer Khan was only the first act in a drama that is still being played out.

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[Rabbi Daniel]

Ik vind het vooral interessant dat Irak niet mee wilde werken.

[DEChengst]

Dat meneer Khan goed is in nucleaire geheimen van het ene land aan het andere land geven is niks nieuws Daar is meneer namelijk beroemd annex held mee geworden in Pakistan

[Rabbi Daniel]

Desecrator schreef op 13-02-2004 @ 20:54:
Dat meneer Khan goed is in nucleaire geheimen van het ene land aan het andere land geven is niks nieuws Daar is meneer namelijk beroemd annex held mee geworden in Pakistan

Ik heb het gezien op tv. Een man zei zelfs 'Noord-Korea is nu ook een islamitisch land' ofzo.

Wees tegen Amerika en je bent islamitisch?

[e r t a njunior]

Petje af voor meneer Khan.
Moslimlanden moeten elkaar helpen om eventuele toekomstige aanvallen van de westerse argressor af te wenden. Daarvoor zijn kernwapens meer dan noodzakelijk.
Wat Pakistan doet is niks anders dan wat Amerika de afgelopen 30 jaar heeft gedaan. De VS hebben namelijk nucleaire technologie en kernwapens verstrekt aan Israël.

[Skyrise]

Achja... Amerika is niet meer het enige land met een kernwapen.. so what?

[Quincy]

Deze foto ondersteunt de dicussie...

[Rabbi Daniel]

Quincy schreef op 13-02-2004 @ 22:11:
Deze foto ondersteunt de dicussie...

Hoepel op.

[Isa]

lol doe niet zo serieus fleet

[DMC]

Quincy schreef op 13-02-2004 @ 22:11:
Deze foto ondersteunt de dicussie...

e r t a njunior schreef op 13-02-2004 @ 21:12:
Petje af voor meneer Khan.
Moslimlanden moeten elkaar helpen om eventuele toekomstige aanvallen van de westerse argressor af te wenden. Daarvoor zijn kernwapens meer dan noodzakelijk.
Wat Pakistan doet is niks anders dan wat Amerika de afgelopen 30 jaar heeft gedaan. De VS hebben namelijk nucleaire technologie en kernwapens verstrekt aan Israël.

precies!

[Skyrise]

Nou om het ietsje te nuanceren;

NEE ik vind niet dat een land kernwapens moet hebben omdat een ander land ze ook heeft.

en ook NEE: ze moeten het al helemaal niet doen om ze dan terug te kunnen gooien op een ander land.

Oog om oog tand om tand

die kant moeten we met Kernwapens niet op (NEE FLEET ADMIRAL NEE)



Wat ik wel vind is dat het ene land (dat notabene zelf weer aan het produceren is) tegen andere landen moet zeggen dat ze die wapens niet mogen hebben, hoe FUCKING hypocriet kan je zijn?
echt volslagen belachelijk. En NEE, ook niet als dat land claimt "betrouwbaarder" te zijn.

[Carpe Diem]

Wanneer een land ook al maar probeert kernwapens op een ander land te gebruiken, mag de (westerse) wereld wat mij betreft, ongekend hard ingrijpen.
Verder vind ik het nogal een gevaarlijk idee dat landen waarin het merendeel van de bevolking fundamentalistisch is ingesteld, in het bezit van deze wapens is. De internationale druk op dergelijke landen moet veel zwaarder worden.

[Gatara]

dr is al een topic over kernwapens.