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• Antiwar "Edmonds draws a picture of a three-sided alliance consisting of Turkish, Pakistani, and Israeli agents who coordinated efforts to milk U.S. nuclear secrets and technology, funneling the intelligence stream to the black market nuclear network set up by the Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan. The multi-millionaire Pakistani nuclear scientist then turned around and sold his nuclear assets to North Korea, Libya, and Iran.
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• Antiwar  CIA agent Valerie Plame was partly revenge against her husband, Joseph Wilson, for his 2003 New York Times article, it may have also been motivated by a desire to neutralize Plame's investigations into rogue nuclear trafficking.
• Asia Times Central Asia
• Balochistan Post Far west Pakistan news, Pro-Islam
• BradBlog Sibel Edmonds, Times Online, Germany, France, South Africa
• Global Free Press war coverage  
• Global Research Balochistan, Pakistan
• IACenter Founded by Ramsey Clark
• Information Clearing House, Asher Karni
• Islamic Voice, Progressive Islam
• LegitGov  search
• Let Sibel Edmonds Speak Blog
• Mujca Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth
• Online Journal search, Pakistan
• Organization of the Islamic Conference group of 56 Islamic States
• Pakistan Peoples' Party, Islam, Democracy, Socialism, Power to the People
• Pravda.ru  investigation assassination Afghan VP
• Red Pepper search 
• SibelEdmonds blog
• Znet
• WMR In A Q Khan's refutation of his previous confession, he states that it was European nations and South Africa, not him, that arranged for the smuggling of nuclear technology to Libya and Iran. He told McClatchy in an interview from house arrest in Islamabad: "The Germans, the South Africans and the French all have those drawings. They were the suppliers. You can’t blame me for it. They were selling and making money. Why put the blame on me?"  and WMR
• notes: sequenced centrifuges separate isotopes of U-235, U-238, ... tubes milled to higher tolerances than for medical or pharmaceutical uses, ... Pakistan, Libya, Iran, North Korea, traded nuclear tech, war-head designs, inadequate security of stockpiles of enriched uranium, Pakistan was the 'Wal-mart' of private sector proliferation, 

• 1upinfo.Pakistan
• Arms Control Network "Interestingly, Ron Suskind’s new book contains an account of the CIA’s involvement in the Libyan disarmament effort. Essentially, Suskind reports that the CIA had turned Urs Tinner, who then told the agency about the shipment. Not a PSI operation.
• Daily Times, voice for a new Pakistan
• e-slam.info, Islamic World Links
• Eurasianet, news  
• FAS
• FAS DETAILS ON IRAQ'S PROCUREMENT NETWORK Henry B. Gonzalez, (TX-20) (House of Representatives - August 10, 1992)
• Islam Web Carolina, Duke, Emory Institute for Study of Islam
• Jang Group of Newspapers International, the News
• Pakistan, Yahoo  
• Press Digest  
• Russia Today  Although questions remain about his involvement in selling nuclear technology, experts agree he was made a scapegoat for Pakistani generals linked to nuclear trading.
• United Nations
• Wikipedia Abdul Qadeer Khan ... born ...  in Bhopal, India, is a Pakistani scientist and metallurgical engineer, widely regarded as the founder of Pakistan's nuclear program. His middle name is occasionally rendered as Quadeer, Qadir or Gadeer, and his given names are usually abbreviated to A.Q.
• Wikipedia Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan_pipeline
• notes: Bush, neocons:  Cheney, Rice, Powell, Perle, Wolfowitz, Reagan, Kristol, Encounter, Weekly Standard, PNAC,  AEI, Heritage Foundation, JINSA, Ben Wattenberg and the real majority, Scoop Jackson, Podheretz, Shachtman, Leo Strauss, Trilling, Marxism resembles Straussianism, Kirkpatrick, Elliot Abrams, Negroponte, permanent revolution, use force to redraw map of middle east, imperialism, unconditional support of Israel, 

• Will Mukasey sabotage the spy trial?  below
• AZCentral  
• BBC nuclear black market, Khan, Germany, France, South Africa
• CFR Council on Foreign Relations, Pakistan nuclear backgrounder
• CFR Cohen Group, Biden pdf ... Obama
• CFR nuclear secrets, components,  black market, "In Khan's confession, he said middlemen in Sri Lanka, Germany, and the Netherlands helped transport plans, parts, and materials to his international clients."
• GasandOil Alexander's  news
• nfu visitor: proxy.maxwell.af.mil (754th Electronic Systems Group) Alabama, Montgomery
• Guardian Roy Greenslade, a media commentator with The Guardian, wonders why the US media is ignoring revelations by FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, who says that there are links between US officials and the A. Q. Khan nuclear smuggling ring (see January 6, 2008 and After). Greenslade also quotes former Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg: “For the second time in two weeks, the entire US press has let itself be scooped by Rupert Murdoch’s London Sunday Times on a dynamite story of criminal activities by corrupt US officials promoting nuclear proliferation   History Commons
• American Petroleum Institute news
• Energy Information Administration
• ISAF International Security Assistance Force 19 countries assist interim govt
• ISIS Uncovering the Nuclear Black Market: Working Toward Closing Gaps in the International Nonproliferation Regime.   ...  Investigations need to continue and intensify in a range of states, including Malaysia, Switzerland, Britain, France, Italy, Spain, UAE, Germany, South Africa, and Turkey. More information is needed from states that benefited from this network, particularly Libya, Iran, and eventually North Korea.  companies list, article does not mention western companies.
• ISIS  Albright, who heads the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a U.S. think-tank
• Middle East Wire
• Nuclear Control Institute, Leventhal, "...the centrifuge design Khan shared with others is based on a model that he stole from the European consortium URENCO, which produces enriched uranium for nuclear power, when Khan worked there as a scientist in the 1970s." source CFR
• Nuclear Suppliers Group
• Oil.com oil news
• Pakistan Telivision Corporation, , Islamic World Links
• Polisci, Political reference
• SCOPE Scomi Precision Engineering, Malaysia, 
• Stockholm International Peace Institute, Kamaluddin Abdullah, Badawi, 
• URENCO

• WayneMadsenReport "Turkish spy ring also intersects with Israeli espionage ring  ....   The Sunday Times of London featured a recent article about a link between the Turkish espionage ring in the US State and Defense Departments and the outing in 2001 of former CIA covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson's Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover energy consultancy by the very same Turkish intelligence and influence-peddling ring that also involved former US ambassador to Turkey and Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Marc Grossman. This was first reported in 2006 by WMR. Based on information WMR has received from knowledgeable Pentagon sources, this Turkish espionage ring also included the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) espionage ring and convicted former Defense Intelligence Agency officer Larry Franklin.   .....    Not only was Franklin convicted of passing classified information, including Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), to two AIPAC officials who then passed the information to a Mossad officer assigned to the Israeli embassy in Washington, but Franklin was also closely linked to then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. It was Rumsfeld's closest ally in the Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney, who, after Grossman reportedly leaked Brewster Jennings' cover to Turkish intelligence operatives in 2001, ordered the "work up" on Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson. Cheney's order ultimately resulted in Grossman preparing a report on Plame and Wilson and Plame's covert role within the CIA.   .......   On August 10, 2006, WMR reported: "Larry Franklin, the Pentagon Office of Special Plans Iran and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analyst and reserve Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who was temporarily posted at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, served as a virtual personal liaison for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, according to U.S. intelligence sources who have spoken to WMR. Franklin, who pleaded guilty to passing classified information, including CIA Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), to two America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) officials who passed the information to an Israeli embassy Mossad agent, was sentenced to twelve years and seven months in prison and a $10,000 fine in January. The two AIPAC employees, Steven Rosen and Keith Weisman, were indicted for illegally receiving classified information. Franklin and other neo-con cell members -- Harold Rhode and Michael Ledeen -- conducted secret negotiations with the knowledge of Rumsfeld and Pentagon policy chief Douglas Feith -- with the Iranian government through the offices of Iran-Contra co-conspirator Manucher Ghorbanifar." full story
• CounterPunch "In Pakistan, the US is having its cake and eating too. US weapons and technology are being used by the Pakistani dictatorship of President Musharraf to suppress a revolt for independence by the people of Balochistan (bdd), also home to Pakistan nuclear tests in 1998 and a energy- rich province. The USA is also funding anti-Pakistani insurgent groups in Bolochistan in order to infiltrate drug operations, the black market for nuclear weaponry, Taliban remnants, and assorted Islamic resistance groups like Al Qa'da that have taken up residence in the hinterlands of Balochistan. The US State Department's 2004 country report on Pakistan was effusive in its praise for Pakistan indicating that it was the key ally in the Long War on Terror and that Pakistan has its internal affairs under control. Yet the situation on the ground is quite different."
• The Turks, she says, often acted as a conduit for the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s spy agency, because they were less likely to attract suspicion. Venues such as the American Turkish Council in Washington were used to drop off the cash, which was picked up by the official. Edmonds said: “I heard at least three transactions like this over a period of 2½ years. There are almost certainly more.” The Pakistani operation was led by General Mahmoud Ahmad, then the ISI chief. Intercepted communications showed Ahmad and his colleagues stationed in Washington were in constant contact with attachés in the Turkish embassy. Intelligence analysts say that members of the ISI were close to Al-Qaeda before and after 9/11. Indeed, Ahmad was accused of sanctioning a $100,000 wire payment to Mohammed Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers, immediately before the attacks. The results of the espionage were almost certainly passed to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani nuclear scientist. Khan was close to Ahmad and the ISI. While running Pakistan’s nuclear programme, he became a millionaire by selling atomic secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea. He also used a network of companies in America and Britain to obtain components for a nuclear programme. Khan caused an alert among western intelligence agencies when his aides met Osama Bin Laden. “We were aware of contact between A Q Khan’s people and Al-Qaeda,” a former CIA officer said last week. “There was absolute panic when we initially discovered this, but it kind of panned out in the end.” It is likely that the nuclear secrets stolen from the United States would have been sold to a number of rogue states by Khan. Edmonds was later to see the scope of the Pakistani connections when it was revealed that one of her fellow translators at the FBI was the daughter of a Pakistani embassy official who worked for Ahmad. The translator was given top secret clearance despite protests from FBI investigators.
• Bob Woodward, book, The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008, Sept 8, 2008, Robert "Bob" Upshur Woodward, assistant managing editor, Washington Post, investigative reporter, ... Carl Bernstein, search terms: uncover Watergate,  Nixon, resignation, 12 best-selling books, Pulitzer Prize, served in the Navy as an aid to Chief of Naval Operations, Moorer, met Mark Felt, FBI Assistant Director, deepthroat, inside source on Watergate, book 'The Secret Man', DNC convention, 1972, wrote All the President's Men, Redford Hoffman movie, Ben Bradlee, editor, reporting on 'Nixon dirty tricks, Woodward interviewed Bush 43 four times, books: Bush at War, Plan of Attack, State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, with Dan Balz, Camp David, Worldwide Attack Matrix, too close to Bush, Kerry, involvement in Plame scandal: deposition to Fitzpatrick, told him senior administration official leaked Plame identity to him in June 2003, November 2005 article revealed his special knowledge, casual, offhand by Armitage, part of confidential conversation of a 'source', asked Libby questions about Armitage, interview on CNN Larry King, junkyard dog prosecutor, consequences of Plame outing not that great, Downie, inaccuracies, inconsistencies, exaggerations, fabrications in books: John Dean and Ed Gray: Felt not the only deepthroat, also Donald Santarelli. Brad DeLong: in Maestro and The Agenda, The Choice, Clinton Whitewater inconsistencies, abandon critical inquiry to maintain access to high-profile actors, for glory, stenographer to the rich and powerful, At the Eye of the Storm, see Maureen Dowd, and The Brethren, and his sitting on information for publication of a book, The Commanders ...Powell opposed Operation Desert Storm, published after war voted for in Congress,  and Veil  he did not reveal that William Casey knew of arms sales to the Contras until after the investigations, and see Martin Dardis ... Watergate burglars, and Committee to Re-elect the President, ...and accused of fabricating deathbead interview with Casey, ... Reagan called him a liar, for whatever that's worth, and other books: Wired, Shadow, Aug 19: buzz: likely to propel re-examination of the Iraq War into the headlines, for fall presidential campaign, Hadley encouraged participation, interviews with Bush, Cheney, Rice, Gates, ... publisher: Simon & Schuster, Amazon, Alice Mayhew, and see CBS, Viacom, 496 pages, 900,000, red, white, blue, gold cover, administration infighting, will be best seller, he'll be on 60 minutes, Sept 7, How does Woodward, Miller, Cheney, Libby fit with declassifying classified information to hype the war?.. Woodward was leaked Plame info in June 03, but sat on it for years, ... John Bolton, Marc Grossman are the neo-con links to Turkey, and Plame / Edmonds working on uncovering WMD proliferation, black market activities of Bushco.  
•  History Commons "The Sunday Times runs a series of articles about FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, detailing allegations made by Edmonds about Turkish and US involvement in the A. Q. Khan nuclear smuggling ring, as well as money laundering, drugs, and conventional weapons. Some allegations made by Edmonds were previously discussed in the press, but many remained secret; she divulges more to Sunday Times now because, after having unsuccessfully attempted to pursue her case through the courts and Congress, she has become “disillusioned with the US authorities’ failure to act.” Allegations against State Department and Pentagon Officials - The allegations center on an unnamed former high-ranking State Department official, who is said to have received money from Turkish nuclear smugglers, and on other household names who served at the Pentagon. Edmonds says, “He [the State Department official] was aiding foreign operatives against US interests by passing them highly classified information, not only from the State Department but also from the Pentagon, in exchange for money, position and political objectives.” She adds, “If you made public all the information that the FBI have on this case, you will see very high-level people going through criminal trials.” The former State Department official says: “If you are calling me to say somebody said that I took money, that’s outrageous… I do not have anything to say about such stupid ridiculous things as this.” "Overlapping Corroboration" - The Sunday Times says that it spoke to two FBI agents and two CIA officers who worked on nuclear proliferation while researching the story, and, “While none was aware of specific allegations against officials she names, they did provide overlapping corroboration of Edmonds’s story.” One of the CIA sources confirms that Turkey did acquire nuclear secrets from the US and shared them with Pakistan and Israel, saying: “We have no indication that Turkey has its own nuclear ambitions. But the Turks are traders. To my knowledge they became big players in the late 1990s.” [Sunday Times (London), 1/6/2008; Sunday Times (London), 1/20/2008; Sunday Times (London), 1/27/2008] Official Said to be Marc Grossman - The high-ranking State Department official who is not named in the Sunday Times articles, possibly due to libel law considerations, is said to be Marc Grossman by both Larisa Alexandrovna of Raw Story and former CIA officer Phillip Giraldi, writing in the American Conservative. [Raw Story, 1/20/2008; American Conservative, 1/28/2008] Entity Tags: Philip Giraldi, Marc Grossman, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Department of State, Larisa Alexandrovna,..."
•  History Commons  "A human rights organization called the Liberty Coalition receives an anonymous letter regarding the involvement of high-ranking US officials in an FBI-monitored nuclear smuggling ring linked to Pakistani nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan. The letter makes a number of allegations about the ring, some of which corroborate similar allegations previously made by FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. For example, the letter names a high-ranking State Department official, who it says was recorded speaking to a counterpart at the Turkish embassy between August and December 2001. During this time the official passed on a warning that the smuggling ring should not deal with Brewster Jennings & Associates, as it was a CIA front (see Summer-Autumn 2001). The letter also says that Turkish FBI surveillance targets talked to agents of Pakistan’s ISI based at the Pakistani embassy in Washington, and that “operatives” at the American-Turkish Council (ATC) were also monitored. The tip-off instructs the Coalition to submit a Freedom of Information Request for the specific file number, but the FBI will say that the file does not exist (see January 20, 2008). [Sunday Times (London), 1/20/2008] The high-ranking State Department official who is not named in the Sunday Times is said to be Marc Grossman by both Larisa Alexandrovna of Raw Story and former CIA officer Philip Giraldi, writing in the American Conservative. [Raw Story, 1/20/2008; American Conservative, 1/28/2008]"
• Russia Today ‘Crooked generals sold Pakistan’s atomic secrets’ The father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb is back in the spotlight, four years after he admitted selling nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Lybia. On Thursday Abdul Qadeer Khan told the Guardian newspaper in Britain that he was forced into making his confession by President Pervez Musharraf. Khan denies violating international laws and has repeatedly refused to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Meanwhile this week the IAEA confirmed his link to Iran’s nuclear programme.  Since his tearful TV address in 2004, Khan has lived in his villa below the Margalla Hills in Islamabad. Initially his telephone calls were monitored and he was banned from using the internet. But these security restrictions were later loosened due to his shrinking influence.  Although questions remain about his involvement in selling nuclear technology, experts agree he was made a scapegoat for Pakistani generals linked to nuclear trading.  
• Wikipedia American Turkish Council  "ATC's advisory board also includes representatives of a number of high-powered defense, pharmaceutical, consulting, and technology firms, including General Atomics, BAE Systems, Motorola, and the Cohen Group. Daniel Pipes is a former ATC board member.  Growing media scrutiny of the ATC is a result of allegations made by FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds regarding suspect activities of council members in an article in the September 2005 Vanity Fair.  The ATC is where former Ambassador Joseph Wilson met his future wife and CIA operative, Valerie Plame, leading some to speculate Plame's CIA front company, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, was monitoring the same alleged nuclear trafficking of the ATC as Sibel Edmonds."  American Turkish Council, board members: Brent Scowcroft, chairman, George Perlman of Lockheed Martin, Elizabeth Avery of Pepsico, Ozer Baysal of Pfizer, Andy Button of Boeing, Richard K. Douglas of General Electric, Sherry Grandjean of Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, John R. Miller of Raytheon, Selig A. Taubenblatt of Bechtel

• 1950 Just a Citizen Sibel Edmonds: "Since the 1950s Turkey has played a key role in channeling into Europe and the U.S. heroin produced in the "Golden Triangle" comprised of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. These operations are run by mafia groups closely controlled by the MIT (Turkish Intelligence Agency) and the military. According to statistics compiled in 1998, Turkey’s heroin trafficking brought in $25 billion in 1995 and $37.5 billion in 1996. That amount makes up nearly a quarter of Turkey’s GDP. Only criminal networks working in close cooperation with the police and the army could possibly organize trafficking on such a scale. The Turkish government, MIT and the Turkish military, not only sanctions, but also actively participates in and oversees the narcotics activities and networks."
• 1965 Sunday Times  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan’s foreign minister, says: “If India builds the bomb we will eat grass . . . but we will get one of our own” 
• 1965  FAS Pakistani nuclear research reactor at Parr, Rawalpindi, starts functioning
• 1968  Common Dreams "Pakistan is subject to sanctions against its atomic arms program as it has not signed the 1968 global nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)."
• 1972  Online Journal "Pakistan decided to begin development of a nuclear weapons program that would culminate in the detonation of a nuclear weapon in 1998
• 1974 Sunday Times  Nuclear programme becomes increased priority as India tests a nuclear device
• 1976 Sunday Times  Abdul Qadeer Khan, a scientist, steals secrets from Dutch uranium plant. Made head of his nation’s nuclear programme by Bhutto, now prime minister
• Carter Administration  Former President Jimmy Carter confirmed USA Today that when he was president intelligence briefers advised him Israel possessed 150 nuclear weapons. Back when the United States was fighting for the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty AIPAC founder Isaiah Kenen and his associates worked hard to steer NPT attentions away from Israel. In his November 2, 1961 Near East Report, Kenen parroted the Israeli government's line that the Dimona nuclear reactor was being built for peaceful purposes. Kenen utilized a tactic many US public relations professionals used when examining pretexts for the US invasion of Iraq, a well-place "expert" source:
• Carter: Israel has 150 nuclear weapons  ...  "Jimmy Carter says Israel has at least 150 nuclear weapons. The former president made the claim during an appearance Sunday in Wales, according to BBC News. "The U.S. has more than 12,000 nuclear weapons; the Soviet Union (sic) has about the same; Great Britain and France have several hundred, and Israel has 150 or more," Carter, a Democrat, says.  Israel, following a policy of ambiguity, has never confirmed reports that its arsenal includes nuclear weapons.   ...   "The problem is that there are those who can use these statements when it comes to discussing the international effort to prevent Iran getting nuclear weapons," Aharon Zeevi-Farkash, a former intelligence official, tells Israel Radio, according to JTA.  USA Today  2008  pic   IRMEP  and ArabAmerican News
• 1976 Sunday Times  onwards Clandestine network established to obtain materials and technology for uranium enrichment from the West
• 1976-80 History Commons A. Q. Khan concludes a deal with Gotthard Lerch, the sales manager of the German firm Leybold Heraeus, to purchase equipment he needs for Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program. Khan knew of the company because it had supplied such equipment to the Dutch firm URENCO, with which Khan had worked previously. Khan is worried that Lerch might go to the authorities, but authors Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark will say he need not have been: “Lerch was eager to do some deals on the side and began selling surreptitiously to Pakistan.” Lerch will be arrested by German customs authorities for these transactions in the early 1980s. It will be discovered that he has already sold Khan equipment worth DM 1.3 million (about $650,000), but he will not be convicted of any charges.
• 1979 -- FAS The United States cut off aid to Pakistan under section 669 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 FAA) after it was learned that Pakistan had secretly begun construction of a uranium enrichment facility
• Early 1980's--FAS Multiple reports that Pakistan obtained a pre-tested, atomic bomb design from China.  Multiple reports that Pakistan obtained bomb-grade enriched uranium from China. 
• 1980--FAS U.S. Nuclear Export Control Violation: Reexport via Canada (components of inverters used in gas centrifuge enrichment activities).
• Early 1981  History Commons  The Israeli intelligence service Mossad begins a bombing and intimidation campaign in Europe targeting people linked to A. Q. Khan’s nuclear proliferation network, which is helping Pakistan build a nuclear weapon.  ...  After Israel bombs an Iraqi nuclear reactor in Osirak in June 1981, the campaign intensifies. Attacks are carried out and warnings given in Europe against Khan’s suppliers and middlemen (see Early 1981, February 20, 1981, Early 1981, November 1981, and 1981). The bombings are investigated by the police forces in the countries in which they occur and are traced to a group of apparent fronts for Mossad: the Group for Non-Proliferation in South Asia, the Committee to Safeguard the Islamic Revolution, and the League for Protecting the Sub-Continent.
• 1985 Sunday Times  Pakistan produces weapons-grade uranium for the first time
• 1985 Guardian Of Bhutto's immediate family, only her mother has escaped a violent death. Her father, Zulifkar Ali, another former prime minister of Pakistan, was hanged by General Zia. One of her brothers, Shah Nawaz, was poisoned in mysterious circumstances in 1985 in France. Her other brother, Murtaza, was shot in a Karachi street by an unknown assassin.   ...   Pakistan's military and security forces are widely assumed to be behind many such killings. But such questions are rarely answered in Pakistan. The establishment tends to blame terrorists. 
• 1986--FAS Bob Woodward article in Washington Post cites alleged DIA report saying Pakistan `detonated a high explosive test device between Sept. 18 and Sept. 21 as part of its continuing efforts to build an implosion-type nuclear weapon;' says Pakistan has produced uranium enriched to a 93.5% level.
• Democracy Now, Pakistan, Tariq Ali
• 1988 General Zia ul-Haq,  was killed in a mysterious plane crash in 1988.
• 1988 The Washington Post published the internal AIPAC coordination memos in 1988. "Foreign Agents" analyzes the years of subsequent court actions against AIPAC by concerned U.S. citizens. The case reached the U.S. Supreme Court before fading into oblivion. Did AIPAC transcend U.S. laws?   IRMEP  and ArabAmerican News  and MidEast Council
• 1989-91 Sunday Times  Khan’s network sells Iran nuclear weapons information and technology
• May 1990 History Commons US Concerned over Possible Deployment of Pakistani Nuclear Weapons ...   Some US officials become concerned over mounting indications that Pakistan is preparing for nuclear war due to a crisis with India (see January-May 1990). Several signs lead to this concern: Intelligence from Germany reports that the Pakistanis have designed a nuclear warhead that could be fitted under the wing of an F-16. In addition, the US finds that Pakistan has learned to program the plane’s in-flight computer system to provide the correct flight path for a nuclear-bomb run, and that it has stepped up its F-16 training to practice what seems to be the dropping of a nuclear bomb. The NSA intercepts a call from army chief Mirza Aslam Beg to the Khan Research Laboratories facility in Kahuta authorizing technicians to put together a nuclear device.
• 1990-1991 Wayne Madsen Report The global nuclear smuggling racket reached a peak in 1990 and 1991 and at the same time Dick Cheney served as President George H. W. Bush's Defense Secretary. WMR previously reported that this smuggling also involved the disposition of apartheid South Africa's nuclear arsenal. On February 28, 2008, WMR reported: "[Dr. David Kelly, the British Defense Ministry scientist] knew of nuclear weapons proliferation involving three South African nuclear bombs assembled with the help of Israeli nuclear scientists at the covert South African nuclear weapons facility at Pelindaba nuclear research facility, near Pretoria. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors who visited Pelindaba and the state-owned Armaments Corporation of South Africa (ARMSCOR) Advena nuclear facility near Pretoria in 1990 and 1991 were tricked into believing that South Africa's nuclear weapons had all been dismantled by the outgoing apartheid regime. However, three South African nuclear weapons were reportedly sold to 'private investors' with the up-front money coming from British government coffers.  
• 1991 Alternet "After the Gulf War in 1991, Turkey found itself deprived of the all-important Iraqi market and, since it lacked significant oil reserves of its own, it decided to make up for the loss by turning more massively to drugs. The trafficking increased in intensity with the arrival of the hawks in power, after the death in suspicious circumstances of President Turgut Ozal in April 1993.
• 1992 FAS  "...  Poor bank supervision allowed BNL's (Banca Nazionale del Lavoro) small Atlanta branch to loan over $4 billion to Iraq between 1986 and 1990 without reporting the loans to bank regulators or the bank's headquarters in Rome. What is worse, over $2 billion of the BNL loans went to Iraq's Ministry of Industry and Military Industrialization otherwise known as MIMI. MIMI used this illicit supply of cash to fund its secret military technology procurement network and to purchase technology for Iraqi weapons projects including the Condor II ballistic missile, Gerald Bull's super gun and Iraq's clandestine nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs.   file
• Dec 1992 -- FAS The US Government asked Pakistan to return eight US Navy frigates and a supply ship that had been leased to the Pakistan Navy, which accounted for more than half of Pakistan's major surface combatants
• Apr 1994  Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott visits Islamabad to propose a one-time sale of F-16 fighter aircraft to Pakistan. Delivery of the planes would be contingent on specific commitments from Pakistan regarding its nuclear program, including a verifiable cap on the production of fissile materials. Talbott states that there is "broad agreement" between the United States and Pakistan on the goal of "first capping, then reducing, and eventually eliminating weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles from South Asia."
• Jan 1996 -- FAS The Brown amendment was signed into law to relieve some of the pressures created by the Pressler sanctions, which had crippled parts of the Pakistani military, particularly the Air Force. The Brown amendment allowed nearly $370 million of previously embargoed arms and spare parts to be delivered to Pakistan. It also permitted limited military assistance for the purposes of counter-terrorism, peacekeeping, anti-narcotics efforts, and some military training
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• Late 1996 -- FAS  Pakistan's main nuclear weapons laboratory, the A.Q. Khan Laboratory in Kahuta, purchased 5,000 ring magnets from China. The ring magnets would allow Pakistan to effectively double its capacity to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons production.
• 1991-97 Sunday Times  Khan sells weapons technology to North Korea and Libya
• 1998 Sunday Times India tests nuclear bomb and Pakistan follows with a series of nuclear tests. Khan says: “I never had any doubts I was building a bomb. We had to do it”
• 1998 Alternet Convergence of US and foreign counter-narcotics, counter-terrorism and US national security and economic interests prevented the surfacing of information warning Americans of 9/11.   ...  President Clinton was promoting Turkey, one of the world's top drug transit points, as a model for Muslim-Western cooperation and a country necessary to reshape the Middle East.  ...  from 1998 to September 10, 2001, the War on Drugs kept bumping into the nascent War on Terror and new directions in US foreign policy.   ...  Turkey is one of the USA's and Europe's top arms buyers and is located near what could be some of the biggest oil and natural gas fields in the world. At this point, it's worth noting that the one of the FBI's tasks is to counter industrial espionage and to engage in it. Where big arms sales pit the US against its European competitors    ...  
• 1998 notes: This is a swift knight report concerning terrorist activities of sheikh Usam Ben Laden Muhammad Ben Avad Ben Laden. 1998, Usam Ben Laden, took an active part in the against the Soviets, lived in Islamabad, Pakistan, supplied Moozakheds, Mudjaheddin, ... recruited selected Arab militants, Soviet and Russian intelligence organizations, Afghan Arabs, Arab Afghans, stayed in Khartoum, created Al-Kaida, Amir Khattab in Chechnya, overthrow Fakhd in Saudi Arabia, build 'just Islamic state', challenge US, China, Russia, Judeo-Christian and Confucian Domination, via terror, ethnic cleansing, latent penetration, control over nuclear and biological weapons,  ... Cocnetel kidnapping source Judicial Watch file
• 1998  Online Journal "... in 1972 Pakistan decided to begin development of a nuclear weapons program that would culminate in the detonation of a nuclear weapon in 1998   ...  
• Sep 1999  National Whistleblowers Coalition "According to a report by Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEA), at least 104 nuclear smuggling incidents had occurred in the past eight years in Turkey. For instance, in September 1999, 5 Kilograms of Uranium enriched to 4.6 percent were confiscated from an international smuggling ring in Turkey, which included four Turkish, one Azerbaijani, and three Kazakhstani citizens. The report cites over one hundred incidents like this, and these are only cases that have been intercepted and reported.
• Late 1990's, 2000, 2001 Antiwar  "the Brewster Jennings network was very active in Turkey and with the Turkish community in the U.S. during the late 1990s, 2000, and 2001 … in places like Chicago, Boston, and Paterson, N.J." These disclosures make it clear that nuclear trafficking was one of the widespread illegal activities enjoyed by government officials, foreign agents, rogue businessmen, and terrorists under surveillance prior to and during Ms. Edmonds' time at the FBI
• 2001 Sunday Times CIA chief George Tenet gathers officials for crisis summit on the proliferation of nuclear technology from Pakistan to other countries
• 2001 Sunday Times Weeks before 9/11, Khan’s aides meet Osama Bin Laden to discuss an Al-Qaeda nuclear device
• 2001  History Commons  "A human rights organization called the Liberty Coalition receives an anonymous letter regarding the involvement of high-ranking US officials in an FBI-monitored nuclear smuggling ring linked to Pakistani nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan. The letter makes a number of allegations about the ring, some of which corroborate similar allegations previously made by FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. For example, the letter names a high-ranking State Department official, (Marc Grossman) who it says was recorded speaking to a counterpart at the Turkish embassy between August and December 2001. During this time the official passed on a warning that the smuggling ring should not deal with Brewster Jennings & Associates, as it was a CIA front (see Summer-Autumn 2001). The letter also says that Turkish FBI surveillance targets talked to agents of Pakistan’s ISI based at the Pakistani embassy in Washington, and that “operatives” at the American-Turkish Council (ATC) were also monitored. The tip-off instructs the Coalition to submit a Freedom of Information Request for the specific file number, but the FBI will say that the file does not exist (see January 20, 2008). [Sunday Times (London), 1/20/2008] The high-ranking State Department official who is not named in the Sunday Times is said to be Marc Grossman by both Larisa Alexandrovna of Raw Story and former CIA officer Philip Giraldi, writing in the American Conservative. [Raw Story, 1/20/2008; American Conservative, 1/28/2008]"
• 2001 Sunday Times After 9/11 proliferation crisis becomes secondary as Pakistan is seen as important ally in war on terror
• Summer-Autumn 2001  History Commons  "A human rights organization called the Liberty Coalition receives an anonymous letter regarding the involvement of high-ranking US officials in an FBI-monitored nuclear smuggling ring linked to Pakistani nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan. The letter makes a number of allegations about the ring, some of which corroborate similar allegations previously made by FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. For example, the letter names a high-ranking State Department official, who it says was recorded speaking to a counterpart at the Turkish embassy between August and December 2001. During this time the official passed on a warning that the smuggling ring should not deal with Brewster Jennings & Associates, as it was a CIA front (see Summer-Autumn 2001). 
• Sept 20 2001 CounterPunch "Edmonds claims that during her time at the FBI (September 20, 2001 to March 22, 2002) she discovered that intelligence material had been deliberately allowed to accumulate without translation; that inept translators were retained and promoted; and that evidence for traffic in nuclear materials was ignored."
• Oct 21, 2001 DOJ  "...indictment charged Misbah Khan of Karachi, Pakistan with hacking into AIPAC's computer server in Silver Spring, Maryland on November 1, 2000."
• Late 2001 American Conservative "Edmonds states that FBI phone taps from late 2001 reveal that Grossman tipped off his Turkish contact regarding the CIA weapons proliferation cover unit Brewster Jennings, which was being used by Valerie Plame, and that the Turk then informed the Pakistani intelligence service representative in Washington. It is to be assumed that the information was then passed on to the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network.
• 2002 American Conservative "Senators Grassley and Leahy, a Republican and a Democrat, who interviewed her at length in 2002, attest to Edmonds’s believability. The Department of Justice inspector general investigation into her claims about the translations unit and an internal FBI review confirmed most of her allegations.
• Jun 2002  HistoryCommons "US District Judge Reggie B. Walton, appointed by George W. Bush, dismisses Sibel Edmonds’ lawsuit (see June 2002) against the Justice Department, accepting the government’s argument that allowing the case to proceed would jeopardize national security (Bridis 7/6/2004; Bohn 7/7/2004) and infringe upon its October 2002 declaration (see October 18, 2002) that classified everything related to Edmonds’ case. Walton refuses to explain his ruling, insisting that to do so would expose sensitive secrets. “The Court finds that the plaintiff is unable to establish her First Amendment, Fifth Amendment, and Privacy Act claims without the disclosure of privileged information, nor would the defendants be able to defend against these claims without the same disclosures… the plaintiff’s case must be dismissed, albeit with great consternation, in the interests of national security,” Walton says in his ruling. (Bohn 7/7/2004) Walton never heard evidence from Edmonds’ lawyers. (Bridis 7/6/2004; Associated Press 7/7/2004"
• Oct 2002 Huffington Post "To stop Sibel from telling her story, then Attorney General John Ashcroft subjected her to a state secrets privilege gag order after her appearance on CBS's 60 Minutes in October 2002 that not only forbade her providing details of her employment with FBI but also made the ban retroactive so that anything relating to her case would be considered a state secret.
• Nov 2002 WMR has reported in the past on this aspect of the scandal. In addition to identifying the involvement of individuals in the White House who were close to key players in nuclear proliferation, the CIA Counter-Proliferation Division prevented the shipment of binary VX nerve gas from Turkey into Iraq in November 2002. The Brewster Jennings network in Turkey was able to intercept this shipment which was intended to be hidden in Iraq and later used as evidence that Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. U.S. intelligence sources revealed that this was a major reason the Bush White House targeted Plame and her network." full story
• 2003 Sunday Times Libya abandons nuclear weapons programme and admits acquiring components through Pakistani nuclear scientists
• 2003 CommonDreams "Abdul Qadeer Khan, the disgraced scientist who built Pakistan's nuclear weapons program and whose role was revealed in 2003, set up a clandestine procurement network with front companies and middlemen who duped manufacturers across the globe into thinking purchases of sensitive dual-use items were intended for civilian purposes."  ...  The IAEA began investigating Khan's network in 2003 after it discovered Iran had enrichment technology identical to Pakistan.
• Jun 2003,  Wikipedia   an analyst at the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) sent a memo to Ambassador Grossman outlining Ambassador Joseph Wilson's trip to Niger and mentioning that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA. Reportedly, Grossman wanted the memo as background to use at a White House meeting on criticism of President Bush for using the Niger claim in his State of the Union speech.   ...  In Patrick Fitzgerald's indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on October 28, 2005, Grossman is the Under Secretary of State mentioned as giving information about Plame to Libby.  
• Jun 2003  WMR  Feith Replacement at Pentagon Identified in Libby Indictment. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and Plans Eric Adelman has been identified as then "then Principal Deputy" to Vice President Dick Cheney's recently indicted Chief of Staff Lewis Libby. Adelman replaced Douglas Feith, the chief architect of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, as Undersecretary after he was given a recess appointment by President Bush to the Pentagon post. Adelman left the Vice President's office in June 2003 to take up his post as ambassador to Turkey. However, the indictment indicates that Adelman continued to be involved in discussions with Libby after beginning Turkish language training. According to FBI sources, Adelman used his position as ambassador to Turkey to cement a triad of weapons and drug smuggling and money laundering involving Turks, Israelis, and Americans. The CIA and US Customs Service busted one nuclear smuggling ring involving South African-Israeli national Asher Karni, a Pakistani businessman named Humayun Khan, and a Turkish Jew with strong Israeli ties named Zeki Bilmen. The smuggling network involved companies in Cape Town; Secaucus, New Jersey; and Islamabad, Pakistan. Karni was convicted by a US court for smuggling nuclear triggers to Pakistan via South Africa. The identification of Adelman in the Libby indictment as one of those possibly involved in the outing of a CIA agent and a covert company bears directly on the use of Turkey as a major facilitator in the trafficking of WMD components, particularly to the AQ Khan network in Pakistan.
• July 2003 Antiwar Novak outed Plame  "... Vince Cannistraro stated in October 2003 that since not only Plame but other agents were run through this front company, the leak had put them all in danger – and disrupted the international network of contacts the agents had carefully developed over the years. It severely impeded long-standing CIA investigations into one of the world's most serious issues."
• Summer 2003 "According to the U.S. Justice Department, Karni, an Israeli Orthodox Jew, was cutting a deal with Humayun Khan from Islamic Pakistan in summer 2003 to export 200 spark gaps  ..." FoxNews
• Plame (Brewster Jennings & Associates) was not an unimportant operation and were like other units instrumental in exposing the Pakistani role in exporting nuclear technology to Libya.    Dissident Voice
• Oct 2003  CFR "How was Khan's network discovered?... when Italian authorities seized a German ship carrying 1,000 centrifuges headed for Libya. The parts were made in Malaysia and shipped through the Middle East, according to news reports. Libya was able to get nearly complete centrifuges through the network, as well as blueprints for a Pakistani-designed nuclear warhead.
• 2004 Sunday Times  Khan placed under house arrest and confesses to supplying Iran, Libya and North Korea with weapons technology. He is pardoned by President Pervez Musharraf.
• Jan 2004 Wikipedia  "In January 2004, Khan confessed to having been involved in a clandestine international network of nuclear weapons technology proliferation from Pakistan to Libya, Iran and North Korea. 
• July 2004 BBC : Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan detained in the city of Lahore 25 July 2004: Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, wanted for the 1998 twin US embassy bombings in East Africa, captured during a raid in the town of Gujrat in central Pakistan 1 Aug 2004: New York authorities warn residents and businesses of a possible new al-Qaeda suicide attack in the city 3 Aug 2004: 12 terror suspects arrested in raids across England
• May 2004, an intricate multinational scheme for smuggling in nuclear parts was documented by the L.A. Times. (file) The case, which began with an anonymous tip from someone in South Africa in July 2003, "offers a rare glimpse into what authorities say is an international bazaar teeming with entrepreneurs, transporters, scientists, manufacturers, government agents, organized-crime syndicates, and, perhaps, terrorists."
• Wikipedia Asher Karni   "Asher Karni (Hebrew: born 1954) is an Hungarian-born Israeli citizen and South African businessman. Karni originally came to Cape Town, South Africa in the mid-1980's to work for Bnei Akiva, a Jewish Zionist youth movement. He remained in Cape Town and began work as a salesman, selling and buying electronic devices for a local electronics company.   ...  In early 2004, Karni was accused by the United States of being part of a conspiracy to sell stolen nuclear material   ...  and FoxNews  American mom Marisa Ann Sketo-Kirsh appeared in a South African court Jan. 28  ...  These triggered spark gaps, however, also have another use: to detonate a nuclear bomb. Each of the switches could be installed into an enriched uranium casing, which could be mounted on a ballistic missile ... " file
• notes: "Police in South Africa allege the 46-year-old Sketo-Kirsh, aka Marisa Sketo, ordered 66 spark gaps from the U.S. firm PerkinElmer Optronics. She is believed to be working for and with Asher Karni, owner of Top Cape Technology company in South Africa. Sketo-Kirsh is thought to have sent the spark gaps to a Pakistani company without first obtaining a permit from South Africa’s WMD Nonproliferation Council"  FoxNews  7thfire
• May 2004 "Los Angeles Times" Information Clearing House -- May 24, 2004  As they race to dismantle a global black market in nuclear weapons components, U.S. authorities are focusing on an unusual case: an Orthodox Jew from Israel accused of trying to sell nuclear weapons parts to a business associate in Islamic Pakistan.
• June 2004 National Whistleblowers Coalition "Turkey played a major role in Pakistan and Libya’s illicit activities in obtaining nuclear technologies. In June 2004, Stephen Fidler, a reporter for Financial Times reported that in 2003, Turkish centrifuge motors and converters destined for Libya's nuclear weapons program turned up in Tripoli aboard a ship that had sailed from Dubai. One of those detained individuals in this incident, a ‘respected and successful’ Turkish Businessman, Selim Alguadis, was cited in a public report from the Malaysian inspector-general of police into the Malaysian end of a Pakistani-led clandestine network that supplied Libya, Iran and North Korea with nuclear weapons technologies, designs and expertise.
• Nov 2004  History Commons An Iranian exile group says it has evidence that Iran is still enriching uranium and will continue to do so despite an agreement it signed pledging it to halt such activities. The group, the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), the political arm of the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), also charges that in the mid-1990s, Iran bought the plans for a Chinese nuclear bomb from the global nuclear technology network led by Pakistan’s A. Q. Khan. Khan’s network sold the same type of bomb blueprint to Libya, which has renounced its nuclear ambitions (see December 2003). The NCRI’s Mohammed Mohaddessin says the Khan network also provided Iran with a small amount of highly enriched uranium, though the amount is too small to use for a weapon. While the NCRI provided information in 2002 that helped disclose Iran’s secret nuclear program, many of its subsequent allegations have been proven false.
• Spring 2005 Online Journal  Sibel Edmonds' spring 2005 offensive, FBI shields Pakistan/Turkey nuclear weapons development, drug trade, Cheney, Rumsfeld  By John Stanton 
• 2005 Vanity Fair  Dennis Hastert, who is listed in Sibel's "Rogues Gallery," was caught on FBI wiretaps accepting bribes from Turkish criminal elements associated with the Turkish government, as documented in Vanity Fair in 2005 and elsewhere.
• 2005  WMR "It is no coincidence that FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds uncovered nuclear material and narcotics trafficking involving Turkish intermediaries with ties to Israel at the same time Brewster Jennings and the CIA's Counter Proliferation Division was hot on the trail of nuclear proliferators tied to the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon and the A Q Khan network of Pakistan." and "November 11, 2005 -- New aspect of Valerie Plame/Brewster Jennings exposure revealed. According to U.S. intelligence sources, the White House exposure of Valerie Plame and her Brewster Jennings & Associates was intended to retaliate against the CIA's work in limiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. WMR has reported in the past on this aspect of the scandal. In addition to identifying the involvement of individuals in the White House who were close to key players in nuclear proliferation, the CIA Counter-Proliferation Division prevented the shipment of binary VX nerve gas from Turkey into Iraq in November 2002. The Brewster Jennings network in Turkey was able to intercept this shipment which was intended to be hidden in Iraq and later used as evidence that Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. U.S. intelligence sources revealed that this was a major reason the Bush White House targeted Plame and her network." WMR
• Feb 2005 Huffington Post "In February, Circuit Judge David Tatel joined his colleagues’ order to Cooper and Miller... to testify to grand juries and give up sources. He based his finding on Rule 501 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, which authorizes federal courts to develop new privileges “in the light of reason and experience.” Tatel actually found that reason and experience “support recognition of a privilege for reporters’ confidential sources.” But Tatel still ordered Cooper and Miller to testify because he found that the privilege had to give way to “the gravity of the suspected crime.”  ...   Judge Tatel’s opinion has eight blank pages in the middle of it where he discusses the secret information the prosecutor has supplied only to the judges to convince them that the testimony he is demanding is worth sending reporters to jail to get. The gravity of the suspected crime is presumably very well developed in those redacted pages." ... and see Salon, NYTimes,  BBC
• 2005 Cohen Group Marc Grossman Vice Chairman   Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2001-2005) Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (1997-2000) U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (1994-1997)  In 2005, Ambassador Marc Grossman completed 29 years of distinguished public service when he retired from the State Department as the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. Ambassador Grossman served as the Department’s third-ranking official, supporting U.S. diplomacy worldwide. Following the September 11th attacks, he helped marshal international diplomatic support for the Global war on Terrorism and for the military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq.   ...  Ambassador Grossman was U.S. Ambassador to Turkey 1994-1997. In Turkey, he promoted security cooperation, human rights and democracy and a vibrant U.S.-Turkish economic relationship. Ambassador Grossman had previously served as the embassy’s Deputy Chief of Mission from 1989 to 1992.  ...  As the Executive Secretary of the State Department and Special Assistant to the Secretary of State from 1993 to 1994, Ambassador Grossman managed operations for the senior State Department leadership. He served as the Deputy Director of the Private Office of Lord Carrington, the NATO Secretary-General, from 1983 to 1986 and at the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan from 1976 to 1983.
• 2006 Sunday Times  North Korea tests a nuclear bomb
• 2006 Wayne Madsen Report  "Swiss President Pascal Couchepin's recent admission that Switzerland destroyed some 30,000 documents dealing with the involvement of Swiss engineer Friedrich Tinner and his sons Urs and Marco on charges that they helped provide nuclear technology to Pakistan's nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer (AQ) Khan and Khan's recent recanting of his previous admission that he helped smuggle nuclear technology to North Korea, Libya, and Iran all point to an effort to sweep under the carpet the CIA's tacit involvement with providing Pakistan, and by default, Libya, Iran, and North Korea, with nuclear technology. WMR previously reported that Urs Tinner is a suspected CIA agent who likely worked with Valerie Plame Wilson's Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover firm.  Khan now claims he was coerced by the Pervez Musharraf government, acting under pressure from the Bush administration, to make his confession. On May 31, 2006, WMR reported: "the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office has complained to the United States that the Bush administration has failed to cooperate with Switzerland's efforts to track the A Q Khan nuclear proliferation network. The Bush administration's multiple refusals to assist Switzerland in probing the Khan network, which was a major target of the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division, Brewster Jennings Associates, and Valerie Plame Wilson, was revealed by former UN weapons inspector David Albright. Switzerland arrested three members of the Tinner family -- Friedrich, Urs, and Marco -- for illegally supplying centrifuges from a Malaysian company to Libya. Urs Tinner has been rumored to have been a U.S. intelligence asset. Switzerland has received cooperation in its probe from Southeast Asian nations, including Malaysia and Thailand, and South Africa. All three are key transit points for nuclear materials involving Russian-Israeli Mafia assets who, in turn, are linked to top members of the Bush administration, including Vice President Dick Cheney."
• Mar 2006 Wikipedia  Sibel Deniz Edmonds (born 1970) is a Turkish-American[1][2][3] former FBI translator and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC). Edmonds was fired from her position as a language specialist at the FBI's Washington Field Office in March, 2002, after she accused a colleague of covering up illicit activity involving foreign nationals, alleging serious acts of security breaches, cover-ups, and intentional blocking of intelligence which, she contended, presented a danger to the United States' security. Since that time, court proceedings on her whistleblower claims have been blocked by the assertion of State Secrets Privilege. On March 29, 2006, she was awarded the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award in recognition of her defense of free speech as it applies to the written word.[4
• 2007 Sunday Times  Renewed fears that bomb may fall into hands of Islamic extremists as killing of Benazir Bhutto throws country into turmoil
• Jan 6, 2008 History Commons The Sunday Times runs a series of articles about FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, detailing allegations made by Edmonds about Turkish and US involvement in the A. Q. Khan nuclear smuggling ring, as well as money laundering, drugs, and conventional weapons. Some allegations made by Edmonds were previously discussed in the press, but many remained secret; she divulges more to Sunday Times now because, after having unsuccessfully attempted to pursue her case through the courts and Congress, she has become “disillusioned with the US authorities’ failure to act.”  Allegations against State Department and Pentagon Officials - The allegations center on an unnamed former high-ranking State Department official, who is said to have received money from Turkish nuclear smugglers, and on other household names who served at the Pentagon. Edmonds says, “He [the State Department official] was aiding foreign operatives against US interests by passing them highly classified information, not only from the State Department but also from the Pentagon, in exchange for money, position and political objectives.” She adds, “If you made public all the information that the FBI have on this case, you will see very high-level people going through criminal trials.” The former State Department official says: “If you are calling me to say somebody said that I took money, that’s outrageous… I do not have anything to say about such stupid ridiculous things as this.” "Overlapping Corroboration" - The Sunday Times says that it spoke to two FBI agents and two CIA officers who worked on nuclear proliferation while researching the story, and, “While none was aware of specific allegations against officials she names, they did provide overlapping corroboration of Edmonds’s story.” One of the CIA sources confirms that Turkey did acquire nuclear secrets from the US and shared them with Pakistan and Israel, saying: “We have no indication that Turkey has its own nuclear ambitions. But the Turks are traders. To my knowledge they became big players in the late 1990s.” [Sunday Times (London), 1/6/2008; Sunday Times  ...   Official Said to be Marc Grossman - The high-ranking State Department official who is not named in the Sunday Times articles, possibly due to libel law considerations, is said to be Marc Grossman by both Larisa Alexandrovna of Raw Story and former CIA officer Phillip Giraldi, writing in the American Conservative. [Raw Story, 1/20/2008; American Conservative, 1/28/2008]
• Jan 2008 WMR  Grossman testifies on US embassies, subcommittee does not ask about Turkey or Brewster Jennings ...  Former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and U.S. ambassador to Turkey Marc Grossman testified on January 23 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs. Although Grossman was testifying on the future of U.S. embassies abroad, several on lookers expected to hear something about recent revelations in the London Sunday Times and American Conservative magazine regarding revelations from former FBI Turkish translator Sibel Edmonds that Grossman was a person of interest for the FBI who had his phone tapped by the FBI from 2001 to 2002.   ...   Grossman is now vice chairman of the Cohen Group, a consulting firm headed by former Secretary of Defense William Cohen.  
• June 2008  Liberty Coalition So, former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds is again proved right. For more than a year Sibel has been predicting that Dennis Hastert will join a lobbying firm involved with Turkey, and now we learn that Hastert is joining Dickstein Shapiro.  ...  In the "Representative Engagements" section of Dickstein's website, we learn that they represented "the government of Turkey in connection with the development and financing by private sponsors of the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline and TransCaspian gas pipeline spanning from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean."  ...  Dennis Hastert, who is listed in Sibel's "Rogues Gallery," was caught on FBI wiretaps accepting bribes from Turkish criminal elements associated with the Turkish government, as documented in Vanity Fair in 2005 and elsewhere.
• Sept 24,  2008 Infowars, Pakistan Investigating US Marine Activity Inside Marriott Hotel Days Before Huge Bombing Authorities probing into truck load of steel boxes unloaded into hotel in secret by marines .... Steve Watson Infowars.net Wednesday, Sept 24, 2008 ... Pakistani authorities investigating last Saturday's huge bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad are looking into evidence that US marines were occupying two floors just days prior to the blast and were witnessed unloading a truckload of steel cases inside. ... "The authorities want to ascertain if it was a routine exercise or part of some special mission that does not have the approval of the government of Pakistan," Pakistan's largest newspaper The News reported. ... The reports of the mysterious activity first surfaced in the Pakistani media on Sunday. ... According to the accounts, several witnesses, including Pakistani government officials, described seeing a US embassy truckload of steel boxes unloaded while all entrances to and from the hotel were locked down at around midnight on the 16th September. ... The cases were not taken through security scanners in the hotel's lobby, but were shifted directly to the fourth and fifth floors, the same floors that fire broke out on after the truck bombing on Saturday. ... "Already, the government has got information that several rooms on the fourth floor of the Marriott were in permanent use of the US authorities. Three of these rooms were said to be inter-connected and contained some intelligence equipment and other material allegedly used for espionage," The News also reported. ... The reports have also been picked up in the press in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. ... A US embassy statement said that the marines were a routine team of support personnel that often precede and/or accompany certain US government officials, and that the cases contained communication equipment.