Author: PTI
Publication: The Times of India
Date: March 17, 2009
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/AQ-Khans-network-not-totally-closed/articleshow/4274657.cms
A US lawmaker who introduced a legislation
in the US Congress last week to pressure Pakistan to allow US officials access
to its rogue scientist A Q Khan, asserted that his black nuclear market has
not been closed down yet completely.
Appearing on the MSNBC news channel Congresswoman,
Jane Harman, said she disagrees with the view that the A Q Khan nuclear network
has totally been closed down.
In an interview to the CNN on Sunday, the
former US vice president, Dick Cheney, had claimed success of the Bush administration
in closing down this network.
"I disagree," Harman, Chairwoman
of House Homeland Security Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism
Risk Assessment Subcommittee, told MSNBC in her interview.
"I saw the classified evidence when I
was Ranking Member on the House Intelligence Committee and I was never persuaded
that we totally closed down his international arms bazaar," she claimed.
Harman claimed that Khan's network sold the
secret nuclear technology to Iran, Libya, North Korea and Syria. "In
Libya, we have shut down, but Iran and North Korea are as dangerous as they
are because of the efforts of this man," she said.
