Friday, February 06, 2009
Hope and change for A.Q. Khan
Pakistan has released nuclear black marketeer A.Q. Khan, the father of the "Islamic Bomb," from house arrest. Call me a cynic, but I cannot help but wonder whether Pakistan would have had the stones to do this if John McCain had won in November.
8 Comments:
By 
Dawnfire82, at
Fri Feb 06, 06:30:00 PM:
I read this as a big 'fuck you' to the Indians, actually.
By SR, at
Fri Feb 06, 07:20:00 PM:
Note to Leon Panetta:
Snatch this guy up.
By TigerHawk, at
Fri Feb 06, 07:21:00 PM:
Good point, DF. Now that you say it, I agree with you.
By Viking Kaj, at
Fri Feb 06, 09:58:00 PM:
I hear Kameni has a suite reserved for him at the Teheran Hilton...
By sleeper, at
Sat Feb 07, 03:57:00 PM:
It might have been aimed at the Indians, but it's still possible that they wouldn't dare with John McCain. I read this astonishing sentence on Politico: "The transition occurred without — as had been feared — any foreign attempt to take advantage of an interregnum." With the Kyrgyz air base, they are two already.
By 
, at
Sat Feb 07, 06:15:00 PM:
Khan is viewed a a hero in Pakistan and the Islamic world. He gave Islam the bomb.
"Note to Leon Panetta:
Snatch this guy up."
At the time Khan was picked up by the Pakistanis his daughter said that if any harm came to him she would release all the documentation they have stashed away.
I think rendition may well have the same effect.
By , at
Sun Feb 08, 09:53:00 AM:
Then I would get the daughter too. Don't screw around. I prefer New York without high radiation readings.
By , at
Fri Feb 13, 04:56:00 PM:
Just remember without pakistan there would be no surgical instrument industry despite what the germans in tutlingen think. I would estimate that 80-90% of every ring handled instrument and scissor sold in this country has been processed to some extent in Pakistan. It would take quite some time to replace that supply chain.
