Khan Job: Bush Spiked Probe of Pakistan’s Dr. Strangelove *IN 2001*

[Wonk]

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The Bush Administration has expressed shock at disclosures that Pakistan, our ally in the war on terror, has been running a nuclear secrets bazaar. In fact, according to the British news teams' sources within US intelligence agencies, shortly after President Bush's inauguration, his National Security Agency (NSA) effectively stymied the probe of Khan Research Laboratories, the Pakistani agency in charge of the bomb project. CIA and other agents told BBC they could not investigate the spread of “Islamic Bombs” through Pakistan because funding appeared to originate in Saudi Arabia.

Greg Palast and David Pallister received a California State University Project Censored Award for this expose based on the story broadcast by Palast on BBC television's top current affairs program.

According to both sources and documents obtained by the BBC, the Bush Administration “spike” of the investigation of Dr. Khan’s Lab followed from a wider policy of protecting key Saudi Arabians including the Bin Laden family.

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related (long)
The mysterious world of Pakistan`s Dr Strangelove

[thebigidea]

1. your hysterical sigline pic reminds me...

I should do a Jack Chick comic book tract about the Bush Admin...

"Yaaaaaaaah!"

already earned a cease and desist from them once before, why not push it?

The Khan story is extremely frustrating - here are those damn scary "WMDs" the Bushies have been blathering about, doled out to the "Axis of Evil" - but oh, lets just forget about it. Hmmm.

cut to a small room in Islamabad, and a smiling man with a moustache.

[abracadabra]

2. UNBELIEVABLE !! PRI ran this story Yesterday-incriminating stuff

Greg Pallast was yesterday's Guest on Jerry Quickly's afternoon show on KPFK Los Angeles-
Greg Pallast is so well informed and so cool.
His bookThe Best Democracy Money Can buy outlines this stuff.

Pallast is da Man!!
YES
!!!!!
EXPOSE THIS CORRUPT WEB !!!!

[Old and In the Way]

3. Makes you wonder who is enabling terrorism?

Hard to justify $400BB dense budgets, wars, and rebuild contracts if you can't have a boogyman.

[minkyboodle]

4. Mine Fuher I can Walk!!!!!

Once again Palast is ahead of the curve. Is anyone really suprised. He's a multi-national treasure.
Scott