December 2004
Riggs Bank Had Longstanding Link To the CIA
Riggs Bank, which is under investigation by the Justice Department for money laundering, has had a longstanding relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency, according to people familiar with Riggs operations and U.S. government officials.
November 2004
Khan Man?
Did Pakistan's new U.S. envoy have a hand in the A.Q. Khan ring?
October 2004
Bush's Courting of Saddam
Sarkis Soghanalian, the international arms dealer who bought billions in weapons for Saddam Hussein, says he was approached at a Newark airport luncheon meeting in the early '80s by a representative of then Texas oil entrepreneur George W. Bush, who was seeking to do business in Iraq.
America: Bomb Builders or Peace Makers
It is rare for an American president to devote an entire speech to the problem of nuclear proliferation. But in February George W. Bush did just that. “America will not permit terrorists and dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world’s most deadly weapons,” he said.
August 2004
May 2004
Western Intelligence Agencies Missed Link to A.Q. Khan's Nuclear Proliferation Networkspan>
A man closely connected to Pakistan's nuclear arms trafficking network was convicted more than two years ago of exporting uranium enrichment equipment to A.Q. Khan, yet officials apparently did not follow through with an investigation.