This MUST Be A Bad Bad Joke

AQ Khan transferred

centrifuges to N Korea:

Musharraf
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Wednesday, 24 August , 2005, 18:30

Islamabad: Giving details of disgraced scientist AQ Khan's clandestine nuclear transfers for the first time, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said the country's top atomic expert had provided North Korea with centrifuges and their designs.

"Yes, he passed centrifuges - parts and complete. I do not exactly remember the number," Musharraf told Japan's Kyodo news agency, but played down the roles these transfers had played in North Korea's bid to acquire nuclear weapons capability.

In February 2004, Khan, regarded as the father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme, had confessed to having supplied nuclear technology and know-how to North Korea, Libya and Iran. He was subsequently pardoned by the President, but had been in virtual house arrest here since then.

Musharraf said Khan could not have been of immense help to North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme because his laboratory was engaged in uranium enrichment and not in other steps needed to make a nuclear bomb such as conversion of uranium into gas and development of trigger mechanism and delivery system.

"So if North Korea has made a bomb ... Dr AQ Khan's part is only enriching the uranium to weapons grade. He does not know about making the bomb, he does not know about the trigger mechanism, he does not know about the delivery system," the President said.

If the North Koreans have acquired such a bomb-making capability, they "must have got it themselves or somewhere else - not from Pakistan," he was quoted as saying.


--DAMN YOU BUSH DAMN YOU TO HELL.

We have been aligned with torturers terrorists and and butchers!--