Abdul Qadeer Khan, the nuclear scientist at the door of his house in Islamabad in 2009.
WASHINGTON — Spent at the beginning of 2008, when the rumors section object that Pakistan was about to release from house arrest Abdul Qadeer Khan, the man who created the world's largest black market in nuclear technology, the Bush administration is silent.
Day 3
Articles in this series will examine American diplomatic cables as a window on relations with the rest of the world in an age of war and terrorism.
Updates in response to the leak of diplomatic cables. Editors and journalists answer questions.Struggling to get help for Pakistan in the war against Al Qaeda, it could not risk to remind the world of a case Pakistani officials kept saying was closed.
Private it was another story.
Richard a. Boucher, top State Department official for South Asia, wrote on april 10, 2008, the Embassy in Islamabad should "express Washington's strong opposition to the release of Dr. Khan and call on the Pakistan Government to continue holding him under house arrest. Release him, he wrote, would" undermine "what Pakistan had done to combat the proliferation.
"International security damage by Dr Khan and his voting rights is not a closed book," he wrote, noting that the United States and the other was still processing the Khan network sales of technology to Iran and North Korea "and possible other States."
The world, he said, "the reality that the uranium enrichment technology and nuclear weapons design that was sold to Libya is now available for other States and non-State actors."
Dr. Khan was released 10 months later. Pakistan has prevented him from being interviewed by international inspectors, or the United States, including his assertion that others in the Pakistani Government knew of his work.
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