and how he has hoodwinked * again....
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ISLAMABAD DISPATCH
Daddy's Girl
by Massoud Ansari
Post date 03.23.04 | Issue date 03.29.04
...Yet Musharraf's motives for the pardon may have been less political and more personal. High-level sources in the Pakistani government say Khan's daughter Dina possesses highly incriminating documents and audiotapes showing that senior army officials, including Musharraf himself, knew for years about Khan's nuclear black market. Dina, they say, has wielded these documents as a weapon, using them to prevent the Pakistani government from jailing her father...
...At the eleventh hour, however, these plans were derailed. The reason? Pakistani authorities discovered that Khan had given his daughter a variety of documents and tapes. The documents, Pakistani intelligence officials say, suggest that since 1977 all of Pakistan's army chiefs of staff, including General Musharraf, were aware of Khan's dealings with North Korea and other rogue states. Some of the documents, they say, contain the signatures of former top defense ministry officials. (Musharraf's office has refused to comment on these allegations.)
What's more, Khan told interrogators that the documents show top military officials taking millions of dollars in cuts from his shadowy nuclear deals. If necessary, the scientist warned, his daughter would take the documents to the press. "Doctor Khan revealed the existence of these documents to his interrogators and told them that these are in the safe custody of his daughter," said one source. That millions of dollars could have been siphoned from the deals is hardly unfeasible: The New York Times reported this week that Khan's network received $100 million just for the technology it sold to Libya....
Some ally we have in the war against terrorism :eyes:
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