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Jan. 2, 2005 1:02 | Updated Jan. 2, 2005 9:38 'Syria, Egypt may have nuke parts' By DAVID HOROVITZ The former Mossad chief and national security adviser Ephraim Halevy has raised fears that Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt might have acquired some kind of nuclear capability via an illicit nuclear weaponry trafficking network operated by A.Q. Khan, one of the key scientists behind Pakistan's nuclear program. In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Halevy, who resigned as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's national security adviser in late 2003, referred to a New York Times article from early last week that detailed the scale and possible recipients of what the paper termed "the largest illicit nuclear proliferation network in history." Khan, Halevy said, had been "purveying his goods extensively in the Middle East." And while Israel was understandably concerned by the threat of Iran going nuclear, he went on, "maybe we should be looking beyond the lamppost. Maybe the lamppost is Iran and we should be looking elsewhere." Specifically, he said, there were "question marks" about Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Halevy stressed that he had no firm information, and indeed that he'd not had any recent access to classified information. But it "could well be" that those countries might have a nuclear capability Israel was not aware of. "It's certainly something that should be looked at," he urged. The Times article noted that the United States and its allies had apparently failed to detect that Khan began selling nuclear technology to Iran in the late 1980s, "the opening transaction for an enterprise that eventually spread to North Korea, Libya and beyond." And it said that while US President George W. Bush has boasted that the Khan network has now been dismantled, investigators doubt this is the case. American intelligence officials and the International Atomic Energy Agency are still untangling details of Khan's travels to 18 countries in the years before his arrest last year, the paper reported. Among the countries he visited, apparently "to buy materials like uranium ore or sell atomic goods," were Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. And federal and private experts quoted by the Times said that "Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Algeria, Kuwait, Myanmar and Abu Dhabi were all on the suspected list of customers." "The most delicate investigations" in the hunt for "nuclear rogue states," said the Times, were those involving important US allies "including Egypt and Saudi Arabia." No hard evidence of clandestine nuclear arms programs had surfaced, it said, although "suspicious signs have emerged" regarding Saudi Arabia. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
