Could it be that after years of protecting Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, also known as the father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, Islamabad may be preparing to prosecute him for providing nuclear technology to rogue states? According to this editorial from Pakistan’s Frontier Post, a letter allegedly passed on by Dr. Khan to a British researcher may be a CIA forgery. If genuine, however, the document would prove that Khan was acting with the approval and support of Pakistan’s government when he sold nuclear secrets and material to Iran, North Korea and others.
The Frontier Post editorial says in part:
How odd that the journalist sat on this bombshell of a letter for so long, choosing this moment to release it to select American newspapers. Could this be due to recent failures by the Pakistan military? Could this be connected to the rough patch it is experiencing domestically, being as it is in the vortex of a powerful and methodical Western campaign to depict the Pakistan military as undependable and a poor protector of the nation’s nuclear assets?
Both military officers cited in the letter have debunked it as a fake, rejecting out of hand its accusations against them.
from the way it has been reported in the U.S. press, serious questions about its authenticity are unavoidable. What other explanation could there be, when U.S. reports note that the letter, written in nearly perfect English, is too well-written to believe a North Korean wrote it? What other conclusion can one draw when these reports not only raise doubts about the letter’s authenticity, but then assert that it is genuine?
Indeed, the caveats and hedging connected with reports about the letter are quite reminiscent of a letter that U.S. officials and spooks fabricated in the name of Saddam Hussein’s intelligence chief, Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti.
In that fake letter, drafted in the White House, Habbush informed Saddam that the ringleader of the September 11 terrorist strike, Mohammad Atta, had actually trained for the mission in Iraq, thus exposing a link between Saddam and al-Qaeda that had no basis in fact.
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