BBC (early Monday): Scientist 'admits' selling nuclear secrets

[Jack Rabbit]

From the BBC Online
Dated Monday February 2 05:10 GMT (Sunday 9:10 pm PST)

Scientist 'admits' selling nuclear secrets

Pakistani officials say the country's top nuclear scientist has admitted to leaking nuclear secrets to groups working for Iran, Libya and North Korea.
Reports quote unnamed officials as saying that Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan and four other scientists have confessed to passing on the information about nuclear technology in the 1980s and 90s.
Dr Khan was dismissed from his post as a scientific advisor to the government on Saturday, a move that sparked an outcry.
He is regarded as a national hero in Pakistan for making the country a nuclear power.
Abdul Qadeer Khan was sacked on Saturday as part of investigations into the alleged illegal sale of nuclear technology to Iran and Libya.

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[Ediacara]

1. I'm glad the Pakistanis are our new best friends...

[banana republican]

3. Part of the Coalition of the Willing

I feel so much better now

sigh

[intheozone]

2. What, what?? Wait a minute, why

isn't Iraq on that list of countries he was selling to? But I thought Iraq was enemy number 1! :nuke:

Yeah, right! (sarcasm off)

[Snappy]

4. Most dangerous country with nukes?

Pakistan.

[Beetwasher]

5. Nuclear "Secrets"

There really aren't much of those...Anyone w/ half a brain and the right materials could build build a nuke nowadays...It's all about delivery really, and the "secrets" regarding ballistics are few and far between as well...

[librechik]

6. scapegoat

well, I guess this lets the rest of the Pakistani government off the hook.