Pak scientists admit helping Iran with bomb-making

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Pak scientists admit helping Iran with bomb-making

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[Karl Note: This may be a completely valid and accurate report on the truth of the matter. However, I once had a friend who worked closely with, and senior to, the CIA, in the Government. He described to me, I think truthfully, how some "person" would dream up a "misinformation" campaign. It would be a campaign to last for several years.

It would have as its objective the complete destruction of the credibility of one person, or one foreign government, or whatever. This campaign would, and did, include the deliberate spreading of false information for the primary purpose of stirring up trouble and creating an image of instability, or untrustworthiness -- or whatever.

It is not whether Pakistan helped Iran, or did not, with atomic technology. It is, in truth, that we will never know.

So, how do you detect the truth? I don't offer a complete answer here, but I do say that when proven terrorists speak you do not automatically expect the truth. Pakistan has been, no matter how friendly to the US just now, an enemy of peace in the world. The "President" did, after all, take power with a military coup. Maybe he is honest. Maybe news about Pakistan is true.

Who is the author of this "report?" Other newspaper sources.

That is not a very valid source of truth.

But, "it was reported" comments, using the passive verb form, are filling the space of time and news coverage -- how is one to judge?

Find a good source for data and listen to them (him/it).

It is easy to find the vague generalities in 99.9% of all media. It is not easy to find that one grain of truth on a beach of sand-lies.

Karl Loren

Pak scientists admit helping Iran with bomb-making: Report
Press Trust of India London, January 25, 2004

Scientists and officials [Karl: WHO are they?] working on Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme have admitted for the first time that they provided crucial technical information to Iran on building an atomic bomb, media reported on Sunday. [Karl: WHO are they?] According to a report in The Sunday Telegraph on Sunday, three of the eight people detained in Karachi last weekend over allegations that nuclear secrets were sold abroad have admitted [Karl: Where, when, to whom, in what proven form?] that they helped in passing secret nuclear know-how to their counterparts in Iran. The two scientists and one official working for Khan Research Laboratory, the headquarters of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme, include close associates of Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, who is known as 'Father of Pakistan's Bomb'. One is said [Karl: Where, when, to whom, in what proven form?] to be a senior manager of KRL and an expert in centrifuge technology. All three deny supplying equipment directly to Iran but one scientist [Karl: Who?] admitted, "We confided in them about the items needed to construct a nuclear bomb, as well as the makes of equipment, the names of companies, the countries from which they could be procured and how they could be procured." According to the report, scientists are also said to have revealed [Karl: Passive verb -- Who?] the names of retired senior army officials and nuclear experts who played key roles in deals which helped Iran to launch its nuclear weapons programme. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf had promised that "we will move against anybody who proliferated... Because they are enemies of the state." [Karl: Where is the signed statement, witnessed, by Musharraf, that he said this?]


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