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John Kiriakou, Parvez Musharraf
Former CIA serviceman John Kiriakou has revealed that the United States provided millions of dollars to Pakistan nether erstwhile President Pervez Musharraf, successful effect “purchasing” his cooperation.He besides claimed that Musharraf handed implicit power of Pakistan's atomic arsenal to the US.
"When I was stationed successful Pakistan successful 2002, I was told unofficially that the Pentagon controlled the Pakistani atomic arsenal, that Musharraf had turned power implicit to the United States due to the fact that helium was acrophobic of precisely what you conscionable described (nuclear weapons falling into violent hands)," Kiriakou told quality bureau ANI.
Kiriakou besides revealed that the US refrained from targeting Abdul Qadeer Khan, the designer of Pakistan's atomic bomb, aft “direct intervention” by the Saudi government."A workfellow of excavation was dealing with A Q Khan," Kiriakou said, arsenic quoted by the ANI. "If we had taken the Israeli approach, we would person conscionable killed him. He was casual capable to find. We knew wherever helium lived. We knew however helium spent his day. But helium besides had the enactment of the Saudi government. And the Saudis came to america and said, 'Please permission him alone. Please. We similar A Q Khan. We're moving with A.Q. Khan. We're adjacent to the Pakistanis.
..They named Faisalabad aft King Faisal. Just permission him alone."Kiriakou called this diplomatic unit a large US argumentation failure, describing it arsenic a "mistake" by Washington. "This was a mistake that the US authorities made, not confronting A Q Khan head-on," helium said.Khan was calved successful Bhopal successful 1936, moved to Pakistan with his household successful 1952 aft Partition, and died successful Islamabad successful 2021 astatine the property of 85.
'US expected India to onslaught backmost aft 2002, 2008 panic attacks'
Kiriakou said the US had expected India to retaliate aft the 2001 Parliament onslaught and 2008 Mumbai panic attacks, but it did not.
"At the CIA we called the Indian argumentation strategical patience. The Indian authorities would person been perfectly wrong its rights to respond by striking Pakistan and they didn't. And I retrieve astatine the White House radical were saying, wow, the Indians are truly exhibiting a precise mature overseas argumentation here.
We expected the Indians to, to onslaught backmost and they didn't. And that kept the satellite from what mightiness person been a atomic exchange.
Right? But India's gotten to the constituent wherever they can't hazard strategical patience being misunderstood arsenic weakness. And truthful they had to respond," helium said.
He added that Musharraf allowed the US to run freely. "Our relations with the Pakistani authorities were very, precise good. It was General Pervez Musharraf astatine the time. And look, let's beryllium honorable here. The United States loves moving with dictators. Because past you don't person to interest astir nationalist sentiment and you don't person to interest astir the media anymore.
And truthful we fundamentally conscionable purchased Musharraf."Kiriakou said Musharraf allowed the US to run freely. "We gave millions and millions and millions of dollars successful aid, whether it was subject assistance oregon economical improvement aid. And we would conscionable with Musharraf regularly, respective times a week. And fundamentally helium would fto america bash immoderate we wanted to do. Yes. But Musharraf besides had his ain radical that helium needed to woody with," helium said.He added that Musharraf maintained the enactment of the subject portion pretending to cooperate with the US connected counterterrorism, but continued activities against India. "He had to support the subject happy. And the subject didn't attraction astir Al-Qaeda. They cared astir India. And truthful successful bid to support the subject blessed and support immoderate of the extremists happy, helium had to let them to proceed this dual beingness of pretending to cooperate with the Americans connected counterterrorism portion committing panic against India," Kiriakou said.
