Deception: A. Levy on How the US Secretly Helped Pakistan Build Its Nuclear Arsenal

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Adrian Levy examines how five consecutive US administrations from Jimmy
Carter to George W. Bush have been complicit in building and protecting
Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. Levy is co-author of the new book: "Deception:
Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons.

AMY GOODMAN: What evidence do you have that George w. Bush, that his administration, the Pakistani military concocted this cover-up?

ADRIAN LEVY: Well, we know first of all from 2001, from all the people who were helping to assemble the information, foreign governments and also within the CIA and the State Department. A massive dossier of evidence had been gathered, very precisely linking Pakistan and the military more broadly to these acts of proliferation. The CIA itself had infiltrated elements in the Khan network turning a European supplier. A Swiss man who had been reporting back information on the nature of these deals and how they were put together. And of course remember that by 2003, you may well remember that the Libyans had given up their WMD program with the son of Khaddafi coming to London and discussing some deal to save his father to prevent a srike against him, which is what they feared. The turning over of that program as well as information gained by the IAEA in Vienna on the Iranian program shows the way which those deals had been put together. Now we also got to talk to many of the European traders and the Pakistani scientists who had been involved in those deals. Even if you follow briefly the flow of money, it came from an official government bank accounts controlled effectively by the military. These were country to country deals. The transports used were military transports, Some of them were done actually on Pakistan International Airways, other done on military transporters and some were done on Shaneen Airways, which is a military owned transport company. The CIA itself had followed the movements of certain raw materials, for example, to North Korea. And in the following of those movements, the operations were vast and they often involved military logistics. But a final thing I think you should consider in the nature of Pakistan and the configuration of these deals, is that the Khan project, the nuclear labs outside Islamabad, in a place called Kahuta, were controlled by about 20 tiers of security. You have the labs itself, the scientists working in them, and surrounding that, you have so many different intelligence organizations, military intelligence, the inter-services intelligence, which is the most notorious and pervasive in Pakistan. Then you have lines of plain-clothes intelligence agencies from something called IB intelligence bureau, and then you have the military lines. Everything that moves in and out has to go through a process reporting back to the military. This is described to us by people that run the security at Kahuta for many years. So the idea that vast amounts of equipment, the know-how, the movements of key scientists could not be known in a country dominated and controlled by the Pakistan military is laughable.

Why is it that the US can go around this planet and pick and choose who can have nuclear weapons and who cannot? Then chastize those countries who may want to acquire them, this is the only country that has used it on humans why in hell should this country have them and be critical of those that have them too?

You can watch/listen or read about it here Deception: British Reporter Adrian Levy on How the United States Secretly
Helped Pakistan Build Its Nuclear Arsenal.

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c'mon now ... no need to get all logical and stuff ... whatever you believe surely must be wrong as america is the beacon of all that is good in this world ...