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VOL 15, No. 780
August 14, 2009
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Periodical Postage
BURMA N-BOMB?
Defectors' tales & missing Pak scientists fuel suspicion BANGKOK: Myanmar's military regime has collaborated in recent years with North Korea and Russia to develop a reactor capable of producing one nuclear bomb a year by 2014, a news report based on the testimony of two defectors claimed here. The report, published in the Bangkok Post's Spectrum magazine after a similar article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, was the result of a two-year investigation into Myanmar's nuclear ambitions by Desmond Ball, a regional security expert at the Australian National University, and Phil Thornton, an Australian journalist based on the Thai-Myanmar border. Basing their report primarily on the testimony of two defectors from the Myanmar regime, including one army officer and a book keeper for a trading company with close links to the military, the report claimed that Myanmar, also called Burma, is excavating uranium in 10 locations and has two uranium plants in operation to refine uranium into "yellowcake," the fissile material for nuclear weapons. Since the early 2000s, dissidents and defectors from Myanmar have talked of a "nuclear battalion," an atomic "Ayelar Project" working out of a disguised flour mill and two Pakistani scientists who fled to Myanmar following the Sept. 11 attacks providing assistance. They gave no detailed evidence. Contíd on page 6
Gautier in US to rally Hindus
Andy Shenoy appointed to NY Tourism Board Details on page 30
Bill Clinton to address Pan IIT Conference Details on page 58
Pak arrests another 26/11 suspect Details on page 7
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NEW YORK: Distinguished journalist, writer and long time friend of India Francois Gautier of FACT-India is touring the US through August delivering a series of lectures and raising funds for a Museum of Indian History to be set up in Pune city in Maharashtra, India. Gautier will be speaking on topics centering India including how terrorism is hitting the country, wrong perceptions of India in the US media, misguided policies of US in Indian subcontinent, what NRIs can do to raise awareness about the real India and how Indian Americans can unite and why India needs a museum of Indian history. Contíd on page 8
CONTENTS Bollywood -------------------------- 26 Classifieds --------------------- 66-69 Community Post -------------- 12-22 Date Book -------------------------- 70 Edit Page --------------------------- 72 HealthScience Post --------- 28-29 Horoscope ------------------------- 65 Immigration Post ------------- 60-67 Life Style ----------------------- 24-25
Francois Gautier
Philosophy ------------------------- 71
‘Special privilege to be born a Hindu’
Publisherís Diary ------------------ 4
SPECIAL INTERVIEW
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Real Estate -------------------- 35-37 TechBiz Post ------------------- 58-59 Travel & Hospitality Post ---- 30-32
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