Liberal Repercussion

http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,1142052,00.html

"...Meanwhile, a far more serious WMD-related failure has come to light, involving a clandestine proliferation network linking North Korea, Iran, and Libya, and whose epicentre is Pakistan. Since the 1980s until, in the case of Libya, as recently as last autumn, the briefly disgraced and now rapidly pardoned Pakistani scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, sold or bartered nuclear weapons-related technology for personal gain in defiance of law, common sense and morality.

Recognising the fact that Dr Khan did not act alone is important. So, too, is the fact that the full ramifications of this affair have yet to be explored. Dr Khan's public confession raises, rather than settles, a host of questions about the role of Pakistan's military and civilian leaders and intelligence agencies. Their blanket denials of knowledge or complicity in his activities cannot be taken at face value. It may be that old allegations about illicit Pakistani WMD collaboration with al-Qaida will have to be revisited. It may be that Iran has obtained, courtesy of Dr Khan, the blueprints of a nuclear bomb."

posted by Rei Toei @ 5:33 p.m.