Pakistan's Khan denies selling advanced nuke blueprint

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan on Tuesday denied selling blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon to Iran or North Korea, telling AFP that Western countries were to blame.

Khan's comments came a day after a former arms inspector said in a report that the United States and the UN atomic watchdog must be allowed to question Khan to learn if he sold the plans.

"This is all a lie, there is no truth in this. It is total bullshit," Khan told AFP by telephone from his Islamabad villa, where he has been kept under house arrest since confessing to proliferation activities in 2004.

"The Western countries are suppliers of the technology, they sold it, they are the proliferators.... Why don't they publish juicy stories about Israel. There is...