as we get closer to the day we bomb iran, and we all know it's coming.... little by little, rove has got the media machine churning out lil' bits of the puzzle that he is using to justify the invasion. so that when the time comes, the American people will be so dead against any truth that may lie in the underwash of allegations leading up to the invasion. it worked before, so why not use the gameplan again.

Iran's contact with the network run by Mr. Khan has been known for some time. But the government's failure to turn over documents detailing the nature of those discussions until confronted with evidence is being cited by American and European investigators as another example of the country's continued reluctance to disclose the inner workings of its program, which Iran insists is for commercial energy production, not weaponry. Over the past two years, it has hidden nuclear facilities, including some designed to enrich uranium, until the I.A.E.A. confronted it with evidence and forced it to open those facilities to inspectors.

While Iran is believed to have taken up only parts of the deal offered by the Khan network, its scope appears to resemble the package deal that the network ultimately sold to Libya a decade later. Libya also received the blueprints for a Chinese-designed nuclear weapon; it is unclear whether Iran was offered the same plans.

NYTimes