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...plant?s construction is facing some tough questions in the wake of President Bush's recent call for strict nuclear non-proliferation safeguards, and new revelations from A. Q. Khan, a Pakistani atomic scientist who has admitted passing nuclear design secrets on to Iran, North Korea and Libya. Khan obtained those design secrets, allegedly based on URENCO drawings, after being employed in the 1970's by a subsidiary of a Dutch company that worked closely with URENCO...
...More intriguing are questions surrounding the role of a Sri Lankan named B.S.A. Tahir, who was named by Bush last week as Khan's deputy and chief financial officer. Tahir, who declined comment when contacted by TIME, reportedly acted as the middleman in the centrifuge deal, negotiating the $3.5 million manufacturing contract for the controversial parts with Scomi, which is controlled through a holding company by Prime Minister Abdullah's only son, Kamaluddin Abdullah. But Tahir, currently in Malaysia, appears to be more than a middleman. TIME has learned that Tahir's wife, Malaysian national Nazimah binte Syed Majid...
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Usually, when scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan appeared on Pakistan's state TV, it was to receive another gold medal for building the country's nuclear bomb. But last week Khan, a hero to Pakistanis and many others in the Islamic world, came on the air, ashen and visibly shaken, to confess that he had sold Pakistan's nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea. He begged for President Pervez Musharraf's pardon--and, to the chagrin of many Western intelligence agencies that regard Khan as the world's most dangerous nuclear proliferator, it was granted the next...
...evidence against Khan was undeniable. A U.S. undercover agent had penetrated the hub of Khan's operations in Dubai and begun to map out an intricate smuggling web that stretched into Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia as well as Istanbul, Turkey; Casablanca, Morocco; and several cities in Germany and Central Asia, a Pakistani official familiar with the investigation told TIME. So why was Khan pardoned? Government officials say Khan won clemency in return for full cooperation in the investigation of his network. But diplomats and Khan's friends claim he had threatened to name several top military officers close to Musharraf...