Monday, November 25, 2002
GEORGE W. BUSH'S "GOOD FRIEND" MUSHARRAF AT WORK: Pakistan used U.S.-made and supplied C-130's to move ballistic missile tech and uranium enrichment technology to and from North Korea (NYT; free registration required)
With friends like these . . .
In a perfect marriage of interests, Pakistan provided the North with many of the designs for gas centrifuges and much of the machinery it needs to make highly enriched uranium for the country's latest nuclear weapons project, one intended to put at risk South Korea, Japan and 100,000 American troops in Northeast Asia. . . .
The accounts raise disturbing questions about the nature of the uneasy American alliance with General Musharraf's government. The officials and experts described how, even after Mr. Musharraf sided with the United States in ousting the Taliban and hunting down Qaeda leaders, Pakistan's secretive A. Q. Khan Nuclear Research Laboratories continued its murky relationship with the North Korean military. It was a partnership linking an insecure Islamic nation and a failing Communist one, each in need of the other's expertise.
With friends like these . . .
