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WikiLeaks: US trying to remove uranium from Pak facility over illicit nuke use fears | The United States has mounted a highly secret effort, so far unsuccessful, to remove highly enriched uranium from a Pakistani research reactor that American officials fear could be diverted for use in an illicit nuclear device, according to a cache of confidential U.S diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks. The documents revealed that the US had been pressurizing Pakistan to remove the
uranium
since 2007. In May 2009, US Ambassador to Pakistan 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 material was released to the New York Times and other
organizations,
and discloses frank comments behind closed doors. The US State Department
however
declined to confirm information in what WikiLeaks says is more than 250,000
documents,
covering a period from December 1966 through February 2010. “I can’t provide
veracity
of anything WikiLeaks has released to the media,” Nicole Thompson, a State
Department
spokeswoman, said in an interview, adding that the agency’s policy is to refrain
from commenting on specific leaked materials. WikiLeaks, founded by Australian
Julian Assange, has previously published tens of thousands of documents detailing
the U.S. handlings of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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