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...Close doesn't count." DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. Defense Secretary, when asked if U.S. and Pakistani troops are close to catching Osama bin Laden...
...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...
...been said to have turned up in Iran, Iraq, Libya and North Korea. Last week, for example, the United Nations nuclear agency said it found undeclared components compatible with advanced uranium-enrichment centrifuge designs in Iran. The components were compatible with a so-called "P2" uranium-enrichment centrifuge, a Pakistani version of the URENCO "G2" centrifuge. The P2 can be used to produce material for nuclear weapons...
...Nobody comes inside and checks our things. We check them ourselves." PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, Pakistani President, rejecting any U.N. supervision of Pakistan's nuclear program, following revelations that its nuclear secrets had been illegally passed to other nations...
...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 who also...