Squeezing a nuclear outlaw  September 30, 2004  The hunt for
Osama bin Laden was Topic 1 last week when Pakistan President
Pervez Musharraf met with President Bush at the White House. The
two leaders discussed other things, including Musharraf's
efforts to retain his post as chief of the army. But apparently
one thing that failed to rank high on the agenda was the threat
of terrorists acquiring nuclear weapons.  To be specific, Bush
reportedly didn't even try to persuade Musharraf to allow U.S.
or International Atomic Energy Agency officials a crack at
interviewing Abdul Qadeer Khan, the former head of Pakistan's
nuclear program and one of the world's most brazen nuclear
profiteers.  Earlier this year, Khan's underground nuclear
bazaar--dubbed the "nuclear Wal-Mart" by IAEA chief Mohamed
ElBaradei--was uncloaked, solving the mystery of how North
Korea, Iran and Libya acquired so much nuclear technology so
fast. The answer: Khan's network sold it to them.  Khan, revered
in his homeland as the father of the Pak