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General Beg being queried on nukes transfer: Report

Karl Note:  The story below may be completely accurate, or mostly created to push some hidden agenda.  What might be the news issue here is not important to MY point -- that the haggle of children who are not yet even potty-trained, but who think they are equipped to take over the reins of power and control over world affairs is frightening to behold.

Some of those strut on the world stage.  There happens to be a batch close to American homes, coming into our TV news by the thousands of messy hours of current weekly coverage!

It is NOT that they are so immature, those claiming to be ready to take over the White House in the fall of 2004, but that they seem to get so many apparently mature adults to follow their piper's pipe!

Even if they understand a glimmer of the events in the world, they apparently cannot succeed with THEIR electoral base by talking about anything important, but appeal to the most low, the most base of any strain within our society.

The shame for our future is NOT the terrible caliber of Democratic candidates for President, but the non-potty-trained nature of those who will vote and control our destiny.

This is NOT a time for the children to play with the tools of government, or bombs.

It is NOT that we need better Democratic candidates!  No! We need better voters!  It is mankind that is bringing onto the world stage exactly the quality of leader which mankind "deserves." 

In this sense the terrorists are within our gates -- they have driven the populace so much down the scale of sanity that we dither and dance to their tune of chaos taking charge.

Karl Loren

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General Beg being queried on nukes transfer: Report

Press Trust of India New Delhi, January 20

General Aslam Beg, former Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan who allegedly tried to sell nuclear technology to Iran for $ 12 billion, is being questioned in Islamabad, a leading London daily reported on Tuesday. The maverick General was held after Abdul Qadeer Khan, architect of Pakistani nuclear programme, told investigators during a debriefing that nuclear cooperation with Iran had been authorised by the Army officer, The Times claimed. General Beg, one of a number of senior officers with Islamist sympathies, was the Chief of Army Staff from 1988-91 -- the period during which the country's nuclear secrets were allegedly passed on to Iran. General Beg, who also served as head of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, is said to have tried to persuade the civilian governments in power during that period to transfer nuclear technology in return for the money that Iran was allegedly prepared to pay and which would have underwritten the Pakistani military budget for a considerable time. The offer was rejected. Pakistani authorities have also detained eight other officials linked with its premier nuclear weapons laboratory. Among them were two retired Brigadiers who until recently had served as Directors at the Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) and a retired major. Major Islamul Haq, a close aide and principal staff officer to Khan, was detained by two intelligence officials while dining at Khan's house. His wife said she had heard nothing from him since then.