- 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”
- 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
- 1976 Sunday
Times onwards Clandestine network established to obtain
materials and technology for uranium enrichment from the West
- 1985 Sunday
Times Pakistan produces weapons-grade uranium for the
first time
- 1989-91 Sunday
Times Khan’s network sells Iran nuclear weapons
information and technology
- 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”
- 2001 Sunday
Times CIA chief George Tenet gathers officials for crisis
summit on the proliferation of nuclear technology from Pakistan to
other countries
- 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."
- 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, 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
- 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"
- 2003 Sunday
Times Libya abandons nuclear weapons programme and admits
acquiring components through Pakistani nuclear scientists
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 2006 Sunday
Times North Korea tests a nuclear bomb
- 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
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