http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/spytalk/2009/09/pakistans-dr-strangelove-us-lo.html

headline:

Pakistan's Dr. Strangelove: US Looked the Other Way on Secret Bomb
Effort
By Jeff Stein | September 9, 2009 6:00 AM |

The father of the Pakistani bomb says that helping the CIA fight the
Russians in Afghanistan gave his country "the space" it needed to
develop nuclear weapons.

"We were allying with the United States in the Afghan war. The aid was
coming," nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan said in an Aug. 31 Pakistan
television interview, an English translation of which surfaced
Tuesday.

"I maintain that the war had provided us with space to enhance our
nuclear capability," Khan  added.

"The credit goes to me and my team, because it was a very difficult
task, which was next to impossible. But given the US and European
pressure on our program, it is true that had the Afghan war not taken
place at that time, we would not have been able to make the bomb as
early as we did," Khan said.

A copy of the unpublished interview, translated into English by the
Directorate of National Intelligence's Open Source Center, was
obtained and circulated Tuesday by Secrecy News Editor Steven
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