America might have eradicated Pakistan’s nuclear godfather, AQ Khan, however selected to not and the explanation might shock you. Former CIA officer John Kiriakou revealed that Saudi Arabia intervened to guard the world’s most harmful nuclear smuggler, forcing America to again down.
In an interview with ANI, Kiriakou, who spent 15 years within the CIA as chief of counterterrorism operations in Pakistan, stated “If we had taken the Israeli method, we might have simply killed him. He was straightforward sufficient to seek out. We knew the place he lived. We knew how he spent his day.”
So why didn’t they? Kiriakou defined, “He additionally had the assist of the Saudi authorities. And the Saudis got here to us and stated, ‘please depart him alone. We like AQ Khan. We’re working with AQ Khan. We’re near the Pakistanis…Simply depart him alone.’”
Kiriakou claimed that “This was a mistake that the US authorities made, not confronting AQ Khan head-on.” Whereas Israel eliminates nuclear threats with out hesitation, America selected Saudi diplomacy over stopping historical past’s most prolific nuclear proliferator.
Did Pentagon Management Pakistan’s Nukes?
Kiriakou revealed one other gorgeous declare. When stationed in Pakistan in 2002, he was instructed “unofficially that the Pentagon managed the Pakistani nuclear arsenal. That Musharraf had turned management over to america.”
However the story later modified. “The Pakistanis within the intervening years…have come to say that’s completely not true. America has nothing to do with the Pakistani nuclear arsenal; Pakistani generals are those who management it,” he stated.
Who Is John Kiriakou?
John Kiriakou is a Former CIA officer and in 2007, he blew the whistle on the CIA’s torture program in a nationally televised interview, confirming that the CIA was torturing prisoners. Although costs have been dropped, he spent 23 months in jail. He insists he has “no regrets, no regret” and that he “did the proper factor.”
(With ANI Inputs)