{"id":230,"date":"2009-02-06T14:32:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T14:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2009\/02\/pakistan-releases-aq-khan.html"},"modified":"2009-02-06T14:32:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T14:32:28","slug":"pakistan-releases-aq-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2009\/02\/pakistan-releases-aq-khan.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan releases AQ Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is true that Osama bin Laden is the most wanted terrorist alive. But someday, a terrorist attack will occur that will make OBL’s lifetime achievements pale in comparison, because it will use a nuclear weapon. When thta day comes, it will be directly attributable to one man: Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb and the leader of a clandestine network that sold nuclear secrets to other nations that sponsor, support and\/or harbor terroist groups. It is this man, AQ Khan, who was released by Pakistan<\/a> from house arrest yesterday.<\/p>\n

A court in Pakistan
\nhas ended the house arrest of Abdul Qadeer Khan, a scientist who
\nadmitted selling nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya.<\/span>
…<\/span>
<\/span>A UN nuclear watchdog report
\nsaid last year that Khan’s network had smuggled nuclear blueprints to
\nIran, Libya and North Korea and was active in 12 countries.<\/span>
<\/span>
Khan said he was proud of what he had done for Pakistan, and that he had no need to answer to any foreign government.<\/span>
    <\/span>
“I will always be proud about what I did for Pakistan,” he said. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know how this man can sleep at night, knowing what he has unleashed. Then again, his statement about being “proud” for what he did – not for <\/i>Pakistan, but in the long run, to<\/i> Pakistan, suggests that for all his technical brilliance, he is a very stupid man indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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