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India Got Nuclear Tech Through AQ Khan: U.S. Arms

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A scandalous claim has been made by a U.S. arms control that AQ Khan, Pakistan‘s notorious nuclear engineer may have passed on nuclear energy to India. Joshua Pollack, a U.S. policy wonk (a person who studies or develops strategies and policies) who has worked on nuclear proliferation commented that India might be the fourth country along with Iran, Libya and North Korea, to which a shortcut to nuclear weapons were provided by A Q Khan.

India Got Nuclear Tech Through AQ Khan

Little credibility was offered by Pollack to back up his content, apart from some similarities between the centrifuges used by India in its uranium-enrichment program and Pakistan’s centrifuges engineered by Khan. South African court documents have been cited by him, which claims that a member of Khan “association” supplied India’s centrifuge program with specialized equipment, starting in the late 1980s.

It was through the plutonium route in 1972 that India went nuclear, several years before Pakistan, according to Pollack.

Pakistan’s notorious nuclear scientist AQ Khan may have passed on nuclear technology to India, cited newspaper ads in 2006 demanding centrifuge parts claimed a U.S. arms control expert.

“India’s enrichment program progressed slowly… In 2006 the Washington DC-based Institute for Science and International Security revealed that the Indian government had used newspaper ads to solicit bids for centrifuge parts. The details of these advertisements, along with documents Indians gave potential suppliers, provide strong clues about where New Delhi’s supercritical centrifuge technology came from,” Joshua Pollack said in a commentary in Playboy. “Despite some changes, the design is recognizable to the trained eye: It almost mirrors the G-2 centrifuge, a design Khan stole from URENCO in the 1970s and reproduced as Pakistan’s P-2 centrifuge,” as quoted by TOI

Gerhard Wisser,a German in South Africa was in collaboration with Gotthard Lerch in Switzerland to supply specialized equipments to both Pakistan and its proliferation partners, starting in the late 1980s, to India said Pollack.

Pollack speculates despite the fact Khan never mentioned having a fourth customer ever, “Could Khan have been ignorant about Wisser’s dealings with India? His own guilty conscience says otherwise.” Two conflicting cover stories were published as Khan answered his Pakistani interrogators which explain how Pakistan’s enrichment technology could have ended up in “enemy hands”.

Earlier, the overseas network was claimed autonomous by Khan to supply both India and Pakistan. Later an allegation made by Khan said that he was exploited by Indian connection hidden inside Farooq’s Dubai operation. But Musharaff’s biography cited, “the network based in Dubai had employed several Indians, some of whom have since vanished.”

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The Muslim Leaders That U.S. Killed

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Muammar Gaddafi‘s death is celebrated as the success of a new U.S. foreign policy, on which the Obama administration backed the NATO action, demanded Gaddafi to go and finally he is gone forever. It was a policy of lead from behind, a policy makeover which is sometimes seen as an uncomfortable mix of realism and idealism.

Gaddafi

It was in 2008 Gaddafi made a prophetic warning about the possible invasion or indirect involvement of America in the politics of the Middle East. At a speech in the Arab League summit in Damascus, he said, “A foreign power occupies an Arab country and hangs its leader while we all stand watching and laughing. Your turn is coming soon,” a warning the audience including Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who doesn’t dare to laugh now as his turn is foreseen in the ongoing popular uprising.

Except his short stay with the Americans during President George W Bush‘s war on terror, most in U.S. see him as a villain whom they often associate with the Lockerbie bombing. Realizing the need to take a backseat to prove that the country is not imposing its will using physical force over the Arab, the United States would be more than happy that Muammar Gaddafi has gone, but they would be more delighted by the fact that the world would celebrate this as a victory for the Libyan people.

As a matter of fact, the American policy must have taken a revamp at the realization of the fact that the country cannot afford to do everything, everywhere, and that the policy should shrink to do only what matters most. Going by the same line, Obama had stated that no American troops would be there on the ground and the French and British did the major job. The European powers were leading the movement as it meant a lot for them, the U.S. decided stay at the shadow for Libya was not a vital national interest the world police.

Saddam

If it was bullets for Gaddafi, it was the gallows the U.S. prepared for the ironman of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. It took a little more than a few months for the invading American forces to topple Saddam’s kingdom, which the Unites States had always viewed a threat to the stability of the region. The war that was started on as a hunt for weapons of mass destruction ended with the fall of Saddam’s regime and his capture a few months later. After three years of trials for war crimes, he was hanged against his wish to be shot on 30 December 2006. Both his sons, Uday and Qusay were killed in a six-hour firefight. However, U.S. had to spell trillions of dollars and have to sacrifice the lives its thousands of soldiers. The Economist described Saddam as “one of the last of the 20th century’s great dictators, but not the least in terms of egotism, or cruelty, or morbid will to power.”

osama

A fleet of four choppers slicing through the dark skies over Islamabad from a U.S. military base in Afghanistan finished the job code named ‘Geronimo-E KIA’ in which the United States killed its most wanted man, Osama bin Laden just 40 miles outside Pakistan’s capital. Upon the end of this long and painful chapter, U.S. President Barack Obama saluted the U.S. commandos and said, “Job well done. The mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks which left nearly 3,000 people dead, Osama has been in FBI’s lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists and was a major target of the United States in its War on Terror with $25 million bounty by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As the president once called, ‘al-Qaeda’s leader and symbol, was often termed as un-Islamic by many Islamic scholars; however, Michael Scheuer, in his famous book ‘Osama bin Laden,’ notes that Laden’s 1998 fatwa was signed by fully credentialed Islamic scholars, thus giving it religious authority’. Laden in his fatwa called on the world Muslims to kill Americans and their allies both civilian and military and proclaimed that it’s an individual duty for every Muslim.

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