Targeting Islam as Threat: Using A. Q. Khan & Pakistani Nukes as Excuse.
After President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced “ATOMS FOR PEACE” program in 1953, and in that connection wanted to set up a Research Nuclear Reactor for Signatories of CENTO or Baghdad Pact Countries in Baghdad , Iraq , it sent shivers down the spines of the Zionists. Since that day they started working on two tracks: (1) threatening any Muslim nation to possess Nukes or even attempt to acquire nuclear knowledge, and (2) start a campaign to malign and kill scientists (many Iraqi scientists have been assassinated) , and at the same time scare people living in the West through Hollywood Movies , Books, and articles to make sure that no Muslim country is capable of acquiring these devices or knowledge. In that effort, the pace of such hate filled activity was hastened after the events of 2001, as indicated by the following publications as cited below
- “The Islamic Bomb: The Threat to Israel, and the Middle East,” by Steve Weissman and Herbert Krosney(Jew), NT/Times Books, New York 1981.
- “Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, “ by Graham Allison(Jew), Owl Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York 2004.
- TIME Feb. 2005 Cover: “THE MERCHANT OF MENACE: The Exclusive New: A Q Khan became the world’s most dangerous nuclear trafficker,” February 2005.
- “Shopping For Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Security, and the Rise and Fall of the A. Q. Khan Network, by Gordon Corera, Oxford University Press, New York 2006.
- “Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor,” by William Langewiesche, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux , New York 2007.
- “America and the Islamic Bomb: The Deadly Compromise,” by David Armstrong and Joseph Trento, Steerforth , New York 2007.
- The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World’s Most Dangerous Secrets, And How We Could Have Stopped Him,” by Douglas Frantz & Catherine, Hachette Book Group, New York 2007.
- “Allah’s Bomb: The Islamic Quest for Nuclear Weapons,” by Al J. Venter , Lyons Press, Guilford , CT 2007.
- “DECEPTION: Pakistan, TheUnited States, And The Trade In Nuclear Weapons,” by Adrian Levy & Catherine Scott-Clark, New York October 2007
Barnes & Noble.com – Books: The Deception, by Adrian Levy, Hardcover
Levy being a Jewish author, has left no stone unturned to “name people” involved and nothing about Indian or Israeli Nuclear programs. I bought this book, and found it very damaging and surprising to find names of people who have provided damaging information to these two authors.
Following is one of the Book Review for the book “DECEPTION,” (described above), Publisher: Walker & Company, New York, Pub. Date: October 2007. (608 –pages) ISBN-13: 9780802715548
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a.. Synopsis
The shocking, three-decade story of A. Q. Khan and Pakistan’s nuclear program, and the complicity of the United States in the spread of nuclear weaponry.
On December 15, 1975, A. Q. Khan—a young Pakistani scientist working in Holland—stole top-secret blueprints for a revolutionary new process to arm a nuclear bomb. His original intention, and that of his government, was purely patriotic—to provide Pakistan a counter to India’s recently unveiled nuclear device. However, as Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark chillingly relate in their masterful investigation of Khan’s career over the past thirty years, over time that limited ambition mushroomed into the world’s largest clandestine network engaged in selling nuclear secrets—a mercenary and illicit program managed by the Pakistani military and made possible, in large part, by aid money from the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Libya, and by indiscriminate assistance from China.
Most unnerving, the authors reveal that the sales of nuclear weapons technology to Iran, North Korea, and Libya, so much in the news today, were made with the clear knowledge of the American government, for whom Pakistan has been a crucial buffer state and ally—first against the Soviet Union, now in the “war against terror….” Every successive American presidency, from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush, has turned a blind eye to Pakistan’s nuclear activity—rewriting and destroying evidence provided by its intelligence agencies, lying to Congress and the American people about Pakistan’s intentions and capability, and facilitating, through shortsightedness andintent, the spread of the very weapons we vilify the “axis of evil” powers for having and fear terrorists will obtain. Deception puts our current standoffs with Iran and North Korea in a startling new perspective, and makes clear two things: that Pakistan, far from being an ally, is a rogue nation at the epicenter of world destabilization; and that the complicity of theUnited States has ushered in a new nuclear winter.
Based on hundreds of interviews in the United States, Pakistan, India, Israel, Europe, andSoutheast Asia, Deception is a masterwork of reportage and dramatic storytelling by two of the world’s most resourceful investigative journalists. Urgently important, it should stimulate debate and command a reexamination of our national priorities.
Publishers Weekly
Earlier this year, William Langewiesche’ s The Atomic Bazaar alerted readers to the blind eye the United States and other nations have turned toward Pakistan’s efforts to build a nuclear bomb and to sell that technology to other nations, including the entire “Axis of Evil.” Levy and Scott-Clark (The Amber Room) work on a larger canvas, shaping their in-depth reporting into a compelling and more detailed narrative. They have not truly improved upon Langewiesche’ s portrait of A.Q. Khan, the metallurgist who became “Pakistan’s biggest and most valuable personality” after smuggling atomic secrets out of the Netherlands.. But they do substantially support the idea that the nuclear program influenced Pakistan’s internal power struggles, and that American government officials led disinformation campaigns for 30 years in order to hang onto the nation as a dubious ally against first the Soviets and then al-Qaeda. The authors also hint at the possible involvement of Paul Wolfowitz and Scooter Libby in an attempt to discredit an intelligence analyst who spoke frankly of the Pakistani threat during the first Bush administration. Building on a decade’s worth of interviews, the husband-and- wife investigative term serve a stunning indictment of “the nuclear crime of all our lifetimes,” in which, the authors claim, the U.S. has been an active accessory. (Oct.)
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Biography
Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark are internationally renowned and award-winning investigative journalists who worked as staff writers and foreign correspondents for the Sunday Times of London for seven years before joining the Guardian as senior correspondents. They are the authors of two highly acclaimed books, The Amber Room: The Fate of the World’s Greatest Lost Treasure, and The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade. They have reported from South Asia for more than a decade, and now live in London and in France.
On December 15, 1975, A. Q. Khan—a young Pakistani scientist working in Holland—stole top-secret blueprints for a revolutionary new process to arm a nuclear bomb. His original intention, and that of his government, was purely patriotic—to provide Pakistan a counter to India’s recently unveiled nuclear device. However, as Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark chillingly relate in their masterful investigation of Khan’s career over the past thirty years, over time that limited ambition mushroomed into the world’s largest clandestine network engaged in selling nuclear secrets—a mercenary and illicit program managed by the Pakistani military and made possible, in large part, by aid money from the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Libya, and by indiscriminate assistance from China.
Most unnerving, the authors reveal that the sales of nuclear weapons technology to Iran, North Korea, and Libya, so much in the news today, were made with the clear knowledge of the American government, for whom Pakistan has been a crucial buffer state and ally—first against the Soviet Union, now in the “war against terror…” Every successive American presidency, from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush, has turned a blind eye to Pakistan’s nuclear activity—rewriting and destroying evidence provided by its intelligence agencies, lying to Congress and the American people about Pakistan’s intentions and capability, and facilitating, through shortsightedness andintent, the spread of the very weapons we vilify the “axis of evil” powers for having and fear terrorists will obtain. Deception puts our current standoffs with Iran and North Korea in a startling new perspective, and makes clear two things: that Pakistan, far from being an ally, is a rogue nation at the epicenter of world destabilization; and that the complicity of theUnited States has ushered in a new nuclear winter.
Based on hundreds of interviews in the United States, Pakistan, India, Israel, Europe, andSoutheast Asia, Deception is a masterwork of reportage and dramatic storytelling by two of the world’s most resourceful investigative journalists. Urgently important, it should stimulate debate and command a reexamination of our national priorities.
Publishers Weekly
Earlier this year, William Langewiesche’ s The Atomic Bazaaralerted readers to the blind eye theUnited States and other nations have turned toward Pakistan’s efforts to build a nuclear bomb and to sell that technology to other nations, including the entire “Axis of Evil.” Levy and Scott-Clark (The Amber Room) work on a larger canvas, shaping their in-depth reporting into a compelling and more detailed narrative. They have not truly improved upon Langewiesche’ s portrait of A.Q. Khan, the metallurgist who became “Pakistan’s biggest and most valuable personality” after smuggling atomic secrets out of the Netherlands. But they do substantially support the idea that the nuclear program influenced Pakistan’s internal power struggles, and that American government officials led disinformation campaigns for 30 years in order to hang onto the nation as a dubious ally against first the Soviets and then al-Qaeda. The authors also hint at the possible involvement of Paul Wolfowitz and Scooter Libby in an attempt to discredit an intelligence analyst who spoke frankly of the Pakistani threat during the first Bush administration. Building on a decade’s worth of interviews, the husband-and- wife investigative term serve a stunning indictment of “the nuclear crime of all our lifetimes,” in which, the authors claim, the U.S. has been an active accessory. (Oct.)
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British journalists Levy and Scott-Clark (The Amber Room: The Fate of the World’s Greatest Lost Treasure, 2004, etc.) offer persuasive evidence that the United States looked the other way for years while Pakistan developed a nuclear bomb and exported weapons technology to Iran, North Korea and other enemies of the West. In the early 1970s, write the authors, Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan stole European centrifuge technology to enrich uranium and developed his secret research laboratory in Kahuta. Years later, the mercurial Khan would give a sham public confession to having run a black market in nuclear weapons on his own, when in fact he worked for Pakistan’s military government. The authors provide detailed accounts of Khan’s dealings with Western suppliers, his relations with a succession of his country’s leaders and his wooing of customers in “Axis of Evil” and other nations. Most alarming in this mind-boggling expose are the deliberate efforts by U.S.administrations from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush to conceal the fact that Pakistan even had a nuclear bomb. Needing the Pakistanis as allies against the Soviets in Afghanistan and later in the “war on terror,” the presidents lied to Congress that the Islamic nation had no nuclear weapons (making it possible to give Pakistan billions of dollars in aid, some of which Khan diverted to his nuclear program), helped Pakistan circumvent laws against procurement in the United States and destroyed documents that might shed light on the situation, all the while touting a non-proliferation policy. The silencing of former CIA and Pentagon analyst Richard Barlow, the leading in-house expert on Pakistan’s weapons program, who fought to bring thetruth to Congress, is one of many outrages recounted in this tale of expediency run amok. The authors also note that the “greatest nuclear scandal of our age” continues, with Pakistan still buying and selling nuclear technology, heightening American vulnerability to nuclear terrorism. Simultaneously astonishing, maddening and absolutely frightening.
[edit] Notes
William J. Broad, David E. Sanger, and Raymond Bonner, “A Tale of
Nuclear Proliferation: How Pakistani Built His Network”, New York Times (12
February 2004): A1.
“Dr AQ Khan provided centrifuges to N. Korea”, Dawn , 25 August 2005
About Dr. Khan’s education, achievements and research
http://www.draqkhan.com.pk/about. htm
“AQ Khan relative held over attack”,BBC News, 12 August 2005
“CIA asked us to let nuclear spy go, Ruud Lubbers claims”, Expactica , 9
August 2005
Kahuta, Khan Research Laboratories, A.Q. Khan Laboratories, Engineering
Research Laboratories (ERL), Federation of American Scientists (FAS), accessed
July 3, 2007
A.Q. Khan’s responses to an article in the British Observer, quoted by
William Langewiesche in “The Wrath of Khan,” The Atlantic, November 2005
John Lancaster and Kamran Khan, Musharraf Named in Nuclear Probe: Senior
Pakistani Army Officers Were Aware of Technology Transfers, Scientist Says“,
Washington Post, February 3, 2004
David Rohde and David Sanger, “Key Pakistani is Said to Admit Atom
Transfers”, New York Times, 2 February 2004: A1.
Bill Powell and Tim McGirk, “The Man Who Sold the Bomb; How Pakistan‘s
A.Q. Khan outwitted Western intelligence to build a global nuclear-smuggling
ring that made the world a more dangerous place”, Time Magazine , 14 February
2005, p. 22.
Craig S. Smith, “Roots of PakistanAtomic Scandal Traced to Europe“, New
York Times , 19 February 2004, page A3
The transcript of the speech is available online at “President Announces New
Measures to Counter the Threat of WMD”,address by President George W. Bush at
the National Defense University, February 11, 2004
David E. Sanger, “Pakistan Leader Confirms Nuclear Exports,” New York Times,13 September 2005, p. A10
Ron Moreau and Zahid Hussain, “Chain of Command; The Military: Musharraf dodged a bullet, but could be heading for a showdown with his Army“, Newsweek, 16 February 2004, p. 20.
“A Q Khan did not act alone” says Hans Blix team
Shyam Bhatia, “Khan’s daughter leaves country with important documents”,
February 16, 2004
“Disgraced Pakistani scientist’s health poor”, Reuters, October 30, 2006
Munir Ahmad, “Pakistan Eases Curbs on A.Q. Khan”, Associated Press, July 2, 2007
[edit] External links & Articles
“The Wrath of Khan”, The Atlantic Monthly, November 2005.
“Unraveling the A. Q. Khan and Future Proliferation Networks”, The Washington
Quarterly, Spring 2005.
“Tracking the technology”, Nuclear Engineering International, 31 August 2004.
“BBC profile”, BBC.co.uk, 20 February 2004.
Full Text of Khan’s Apology aired February 4, 2004 on PTV.
“Pakistan‘s Nuclear Father, Master Spy”,MSNBC, October 24, 2003.
“Kahuta – Pakistan Special Weapons Facilities”, Federation of American
Scientists.
‘I seek your pardon’ http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/ Story/0,, 1141630,00. html
“U.S. Aides See Troubling Trend In China-Pakistan Nuclear Ties; Program’s
History Could Be A Factor as Sanctions Are Weighed”, Washington Post, April 1,
1996
Musharraf’s speech in Honour of Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan. Pakistan Government
site.
Exclusive Interview with Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan (Urdu). UrduPoint Network.
Successful Pakistanis Around The World. Friends Korner.
Online Books
Islamic Atomic Bomb for sale in World Black Market, by RV Bhasin. R.V. Bhasin…
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan and NuclearPakistan by Shahid Nazir Choudhry (Urdu).
Urdupoint.
The Debriefing of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan by Zahid Malik (Urdu). Millat.
Interviews
WHO IS THE REAL FATHER OFPAKISTAN‘S NUCLEAR PROGRAM?Interview of Dr.Samar Mubarak-Head of PakistanMissile Program in WMDs & Missiles by Hamid Mir. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Abdul_Qadeer_ Khan
HOLLYWOOD also joined in this CRUSADE to demonize ISLAM and Pakistan.
HOLLYWOOD also joined in this CRUSADE to demonize ISLAM and Pakistan. The first movie depicting the OBL’s footsoldiers carrying a suitcase bomb, who entered tyhe New York City was produced as Docu-drama, in which a U. S. Senator, Kay Baliey Hutchieson (R-TX) also acted out a part.
Everyone has heard the name of Jose Padilla who was locked under trumped up chasrges of using such a suit-case bomb. But thus far the public has not been shown a shred of evidence that he ever acquired or had in his posession any radio-active material, but he is still undergoing toture while incarverated. It has become so scary that even someone bringing a polished gem as a soveier, might contain some traces of radioactive material that might trigger the sensors at the airports accusing that person being a terrorist. We the scientists know that with scientific knowledge that we possess today, the abuse of this knowledge occurs for Covert operations, such as dropping Bio-logical agents to cause famine & disease, and creating artificial rain by Cloud seeding that can trigger floods, mudslides, etc. Simlarly, we know for a fact that when a nuclear test is made it creates an artificial earth-quake (just use google yo search for scientific information about bunker-buster nukes). We now have sophisticated Drones and even Satellite guided ma-less submarines to deliver such weapons as shown in Popular Mechancs Magazine of July, 2006 and others., boasting their capabilities to justify the defense spending to the American tax-payers.
The Earth-quake in December 1985, did not leave a signature that is typical of a natural disaster, but observed to be an artificial man-made event mostlikely created by a deep earth perntrating explosive device disturbing the known existing geological fault, creating this sesmic event of tremendous magnitude,.for obvious reasons most likely to kill two brids with one stone (1) the rebels hiding in the Northern States, wreaking havoc for NATO troops, and (2) per chance likelihood of damaging the nuclear reactor in Islamabad.
As Symour Hersh pointed out in New Yorker Magazine (October 29, 2001): “Israel and U.S. Plan Contingency to Steel Nuclear Weapons from Pakistan. According to Seymour Hersh a few days after 9/11 members of the elite Israeli counter-terrorism unit Sayaret Matkal arrived in the U.S. and began traing with U.S. Special Forces in a secret location. The two groups were developing contingency plans to attack Pakistan’s miitary bases and remove its nuclear weapons if the Pakistani government or the nuclear weapons of the Pakistani governent ever fell in the wrong hands.
A former Mossad agent, Victor Ostrovsky revealed a very bizarre plot in his book “THE OTHER SIDE OF DECEPTION,” (chapter 30), Harper Collins Publisher, New York 1994. On the back of the dust jacket of this book this what appeared in a brief paragraph: On the planned assassination of George Bush (Papa Bush). . . .
” In an effort to bring the right-wing government of Israel to the negotiating table, Bush had put a freeze on all loan gurantees. . . Upon making that decision, he was regarded as the greatest enemy of the stste of Israel. . . A certain right-wing clique in the Mossad picked the Madrid peace talks as its staging ground . . . Three Palestinian extremists were taken by a Kidon unit from their hiding place in Beirut. . . [My controller] called me on Tuesday, October 1. ‘They’re out to kill Bush,’ he said.” By alrting Congressman Pete McCloskey this plot was fouiled in advance as explained in Chapter 30.
NOTE: During Year 2007, the Covert Operations funded writers to publish at least six books (in addition to numerous articles) related to A. Q. Khan on the subject of Nuclear Proliferation, but none on Israel’s achievement to build more than 300 nukes with the tacit approval of Richard M. Nixon, under a super secretNational Security Study Memorandum “NSSM 40” Document, with the help of Henry Kissinger, when Golda Meir visited Washington, on September 9, 1969 (recently disclosed by Avner Chen and William Burr in an article “Israel Crosses the threshold,” published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, pp. 22-30, May/June 2006). Avner Cohen is the author of “ISRAEL AND THE BOMB,” published byColumbia University Press, New York 1998. ISBN0-231-10482- 0. American media has not once mentioned how Julius and Ethel Rosenbergs and their associates let the atomic cat out of the bag to deliver the secrets of Atomic Bomb to Soviet Russia as well as Israel, for which both husband and wife were sent to die in an electric chair in 1953. It is no longer a secret how Israel stole Plutonium from Kerr-McGee plant in Oklahoma City, OK, and enriched Uranium from NUMEC Corporation , in Apollo, PA.Israel also hijacked a German Freighter containing 200 tons of Uranium Oxide (ore) inMediterranean and took this freighter toCypress, where the Uranium ore was transferred to an Israeli vessel and taken toIsrael. This whole episode is also known as Plumbat Affair, or Operation Uranium Ship.One not well publicized event depicting Israeli Test was recorded by VELA Satellites, but it was hushed up by Presidential orders.
After Nixon assured Golda Meir that U.S. will look the other way (super-secret treaty NSSM 40 document, Israel had acquired close to 300 nukes, till a conscientious nuclear technician, Mordechai Vanunu, working at Dimona Bomb factory startled the world by handing over rolls of film to Sunday Times in London, UK. After having the pictures verified from British nuclear experts, Sunday Times published then on October 5, 1986. Israeli Mossad trapped Vanunu through a pretty woman to meet him for a rendezvous in Rome. And when he arrived atRome on Set. 30, 1986 via British Airways flight 504, Mossad agents were waiting for him. He was kidnapped like Adolph Eichman, and taken to Israel, where he lavished in high security Eshkelon prison for 20 years, and temporarily freed on April 21, 2004. After sometime when he wanted to leave Israel and met with foreign journalists, he was imprisoned again and is still there.
The most unfortunate part is that everyone in the West is protecting Israel that has permitted the Zionist state to acquire more than 300 nukes, (more than France), without realizing the ultimate consequences and that the actual nuclear proliferation began when the Rosenbergs and their associates disseminated Atomic secrets not only to Soviet Russia but also to Israel, and then Nixon (persuaded by Kissinger) to portray Islam as the Next Threat after Communism (Summer 1975). If the demonization of Islam continues, it has the potential to endanger the World Peace. PLEASE WORK FOR PEACE Not For WAR!
Arif N. Khan
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