Bush Spiked Probe Of Pakistan's Dr. Strangelove

The Bush Administration has expressed shock at disclosures that Pakistan, our ally in the war on terror, has been running a nuclear secrets bazaar. In fact, according to the British news teams' sources within US intelligence agencies, shortly after President Bush's inauguration, his National Security Agency (NSA) effectively stymied the probe of Khan Research Laboratories, the Pakistani agency in charge of the bomb project. CIA and other agents told BBC they could not investigate the spread of "Islamic Bombs" through Pakistan because funding appeared to originate in Saudi Arabia.

Greg Palast and David Pallister received a California State University Project Censored Award for this expose based on the story broadcast by Palast on BBC television's top current affairs program.

According to both sources and documents obtained by the BBC, the Bush Administration ?spike? of the investigation of Dr. Khan?s Lab followed from a wider policy of protecting key Saudi Arabians including the Bin Laden family.

Noam Chomsky, who read the story on page one of the Times of India, has wondered, ?Why wasn?t this all over US papers??

To learn why, read the following excerpt from the 2003 edition of Palast's book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy:

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=312&row=0

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