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"Millions of dollars were deposited in the bank accounts in Dubai of two senior Pakistani nuclear scientists as nuclear hardware arrived in Iran," reports Pakistan's News, according to the New York Times. "The newspaper also said a senior scientist had been found to have tens of millions of dollars' worth of financial and real estate holdings in Pakistan and overseas, primarily in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. The senior scientist also paid a Pakistani newspaper editor in Islamabad to run a publicity campaign, publish books and organize seminars praising the scientist, The News reported.
The Times' David Rohde writes, "Pakistani investigators are looking into the vast real estate holdings of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, and into Mr. Khan's and other nuclear scientists' bank accounts, Pakistani officials said Sunday. 'Investigators are looking into all dimensions, including financial dimensions,' said a senior Pakistani official. He said offshore accounts 'are part of the investigation.'"
One must read the investigation conducted by French author Bernard-Henri Levy that showed the leading suspect in the kidnapping and murder of WSJ journalist Daniel Pearl, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a suspected Pakistani intelligence associate, was transferring money in Dubai UAE before September 11th. If Al Qaeda associates do get ahold of nuclear material, it will come from these circles associated with Pakistan's nuclear scientists and Islamist extremist groups, and we will knock our hands on our foreheads wondering why the US government wasn't paying closer attention to this earlier. Chronicle of a congressional joint inquiry foretold, I fear.