Was AQ Khan arrested???

[ThatPoetGuy]

According to the New York Times, Cheney "emphasized what he described as the administration's foreign policy achievements, including ... the arrest of the Pakistani nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/politics/campaign/03veterans.html

I can't find any confirmation of this. Khan was arrested last December, he confessed in January and was pardoned in February. They arrested him and then they let him go. Is Cheney really going to try to take credit for that arrest? Is the Times really THAT asleep-at-the-wheel? Or am I missing something?

[displacedtexan]

1. You mean THIS pardon?

UNITED NATIONS: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday that Washington accepted Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf’s decision to pardon a top nuclear expert who passed secrets on to Iran, Libya and North Korea.

But Powell added that he would raise the pardon of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, in talks with Musharraf in the days to come.

“This is a matter between Mr Khan and his government. But it is a matter also that I’ll be talking to President Musharraf about,” he told reporters at UN headquarters in New York. “The action he took with respect to pardoning Mr Khan is something that he felt was appropriate for him to do and he has explained his position thoroughly,” Powell said. “I expect to be talking to President Musharraf over the next several days to make sure that there is a full understanding of what the AQ Khan network has done over the years so that there are no remnants and no possibility of further proliferation activities coming out of that network.” Powell said the desire to make sure there was no more proliferation was “goal number one with respect to his accountability.”

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[hang a left]

2. I saw this story yesterday and thought the same thing.

"Wasn't Khan pardoned?" I didn't comment on the post and it didn't stay long on the LBN page. There are so many outrageous statements made by these people it's hard to respond to each and every one.

[ThatPoetGuy]

3. Kick.

I want answers, dangit!