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Pakistan's disturbing nuclear trail | csmonitor.com
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Materials from A.Q. Khan's black-market nuclear network remain
unaccounted for.
By _Faye Bowers_

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| Staff writer of The
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October 27, 2004 edition

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"Overall, the Khan network is the biggest nonproliferation disaster of the nuclear age," says Matthew Bunn, a nuclear expert at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. "It is certainly good news that at least the beginning of breaking up that network has occurred. <b>Unfortunately, a substantial number of players in that network are still walking around free people</b>."

Those walking free are probably additional businessmen, still unidentified, with specific technical capabilities to manufacture parts for centrifuges, the machines used to enrich uranium, a necessary ingredient for a nuclear bomb.

Moreover, Dr. Khan and his top aides remain free, or at least semi-free. Although Khan publicly <b>admitted his guilt this past February, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf pardoned him. Khan is said to be under house arrest in five costly mansions</b>. His top aides are free as well, their movements apparently monitored.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->