Guardian: Libya Shocks with Black Market Deals

World | January 17, 2004, Saturday // 00:00

Colonel Qaddafi has been buying complete sets of uranium enrichment centrifuges on the international black market as the central element in his secret nuclear bomb programme, the British Guardian read on Saturday. The ease with which the complex bomb-making equipment was acquired has stunned experienced international inspectors. The scale and the sophistication of the networks supplying so-called rogue states seeking nuclear weapons are considerably more extensive than previously believed. As climax to nine months of secret negotiations with British and US intelligence, Libyan leader announced last month that he was renouncing his weapons of mass destruction programmes.

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