Tag Archives: Pakistan

Markets in everything

08-11-02 – 10:04:pm

Including fake markets for fake nukes:
I [“A-”-list blogger] immediately turned to the chapter [of Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?] on black markets, where [Brian] Jenkins [Wikipedia] quite sensibly argues that we should flood the zone with fake purveyors of nuclear weapons, materials, and technology to make it harder for terrorists to connect with actual merchants of [...]

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Protecting sources and methods

08-10-31 – 11:06:am

Mark Schapiro, “Nuclear [Intelligence] Fallout,” Muckraker blog, 29 Aug ’08):
When we were conducting our final reporting back in March, I researched Urs Friedrich Tinner—the one of the three considered most deeply involved in [A. Q.] Khan’s illicit enterprise—through the electronic database Accurint. I was astounded at the time to see that his U.S. address was [...]

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Rollup

08-06-15 – 11:54:am

Stephen J. Hadley, Assistant to the President For National Security Affairs reads too much Le Carré:

That was a concern. That’s one of the reasons we rolled up the network here three years or so ago, and fairly successfully. And part of that rolling up was to roll up the network and part of it was [...]

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