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Wikileaks
reveals standoff over nuclear fuel in Pakistan
Monday November 29, 2010 08:42:30 AM ,
IANS
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Washington: The secret
US diplomatic communications leaked by Wikileaks have exposed a
dangerous standoff over the use of highly enriched uranium in
Pakistani reactor as America fears the fuel can be used for making
illicit nuclear device.
Since 2007, the US has mounted a highly secret effort, so far
unsuccessful, to remove from a Pakistani research reactor highly
enriched uranium that American officials fear could be diverted
for use in an illicit nuclear device, said The New York Times,
which was given access to the over 250,000 secret memos of the US
embassies across the world by the whistle-blowing website.
In May 2009, US ambassador Anne W. Patterson reported that
Pakistan was refusing to schedule a visit by American technical
experts because, as a Pakistani official said, "if the local media
got word of the fuel removal, they certainly would portray it as
the United States taking Pakistan's nuclear weapons".
The diplomatic documents suggest nearly a decade after the attacks
of Sep 11, 2001, the dark shadow of terrorism still dominates the
US relations with the world.
The documents show that the administration of President Barack
Obama has been struggling to sort out which Pakistanis are
trustworthy partners against Al Qaeda, adding Australians who have
disappeared in the Middle East to terrorist watch lists, and
assessing whether a lurking rickshaw driver in Lahore, Pakistan,
was awaiting fares or conducting surveillance of the road to the
US consulate.
The US had warned the governments of India, Britian, Australia,
Canada, Denmark, Norway and Israel in advance of the bombshell
release of the classified documents that the leaks would damage
the US relationships around the world.
State Department spokesperson P.J. Crowley said: "These
revelations are harmful to the US and our interests. They are
going to create tension in relationships between our diplomats and
our friends around the world."
The White House Sunday condemned the release of secret documents
as "reckless" and "dangerous".
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