Monday, June 20, 2005

Old story, new twist

It was fairly well-reported last year that Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan was responsible for selling nuclear technology to Libya and Iran. Because of Musharraf's support for the War on Terror, the U.S. was just fine with Khan receiving a pardon for his trouble.

Now it turns out that the damage may have gone further: blueprints for nuclear centrifuges have gone missing.
A senior official said several sets of blueprints for uranium centrifuges - the so-called P-1 and more advanced P-2 systems which were peddled by the Khan network - have gone missing.

"We know there were several sets of them prepared," said the official. "So who got those electronic drawings? We have only actually got to the one full set from Libya. So who got the rest, the copies?

"We have no evidence they were destroyed. One possibility is another client. We just don't know where they are."

And it gets worse:
It is now also clear that multiple components secretly made for Libya's $100m (£54.6m) centrifuge programme did not reach Libya and have gone missing.

"We are still missing something from the picture in terms of critical equipment, certain parts of centrifuges ... There is equipment missing important enough for us to search, an amount that makes us worried.

Keep in mind that the operative rationale for keeping Guantanamo open is that it's a source of "useful information...in the war on terror". Would it perhaps be useful to know just how many blueprints Khan sold, or where parts might have been shipped? And if so, why is the man who knows the answers entirely off the hook?

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