The Fallout from Pakistan's Nuclear Proliferation

(Wall Street Journal) Bernard-Henri Levy - Over 15 years, Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan delivered his most sensitive secrets to Libya, Iran, and North Korea. Then President Musharraf granting Khan his "pardon." Sooner or later, we will come to the real secret: that of al-Qaeda; and of Khan's links to Lashkar-e-Toiba, the fundamentalist terrorist group at the heart of al-Qaeda; and the fact that this "mad scientist" is first of all mad about God, a fanatical Islamist who in his heart and soul believes that the bomb of which he is the father should belong, if not to the Umma itself, at least to its avant-garde, as incarnated by al-Qaeda.


2004-02-17 00:00:00

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