Khan Labs

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Khan Labs was founded and is run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, who is known as the "father" of the Pakistani atomic bomb. In November 2001, George W. Bush claimed that Khan Labs was fictional, that it didn't exist. Then on February 11, 2004, at an emergency press conference, Bush claimed that Khan Labs does exists, and the Bush administration was shocked at having learned that Dr. Khan of Pakistan was running a "flea market" in fissionable material. This, of course, is contradictory to the intelligence gathered during the Clinton administration, which had been closing in on Dr. Khan. However, during the Bush administration, the agents on the case were told to "back off" because Dr. Khan's main source of funding was the Saudi Arabian elite, the royal family, and the bin Ladens (who are business partners of most of the senior Republicans. [Michael Moore, Dude, Where's My Country? pn]

The story was confirmed by Muammar al-Gaddafi who, in exchange for the USA and Britain agreeing to end their trade embargo against Libya, would shut down Libya's atomic bomb program and give BP an exclusive oil-drilling agreement.

Dr. Khan was also the one who gave Kim Jong Il of North Korea the fissionable materials and blueprints required to build first-stage, Hiroshima-sized bombs. As of 2006, Kim Jong Il is believed to have at least 6 atomic bombs and missiles capable of reaching every point of Japan and South Korea. (North Korea is currently working on the Taepodong-2, a missile which could reach Alaska and possibly even the West Coast of North America.)

The current plans of Khan Labs are unknown as are the locations of its senior scientists and executive officers.

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