Abdul Qadeer Khan - Expansion of Network - Iraq and Libya

Iraq and Libya

In May 1998, Newsweek alleged that Khan had sent designs of centrifuges to Iraq, an allegation that he denied. The United Nations arms inspectors apparently discovered documents discussing Qadeer Khan's purported offer in Iraq; Iraqi officials said the documents were authentic but that they had not agreed to work with Qadeer Khan, fearing an ISI sting operation, due to straining relations between two countries. Qadeer Khan strongly denied this allegation and the Pakistan Government declared the evidence to be "fraudulent".

In 2000, Pakistan secretly transferred authentic evidences to Israel, whose scientists had helped in building the nuclear program in Libya. In 2003, the United States and IAEA successfully dismantled the Libyan nuclear program and convinced Libya to give up its nuclear weapons-related material, including the centrifuges that were acquired from Khan's nuclear "black market". Libyans turn over the names of its suppliers and A.Q. Khan was one of them. The Bush administration investigated the centrifuge's nuclear proliferation in 2001 and 2002, focusing on Qadeer Khan's personal role.