The CIA and the AQ Khan nuclear network
Report says the US intelligence agency recruited Swiss engineers in the Khan network and supplied Iran with defective equipment in an effort to sabotage Iran's nuclear programme. The Iraqi prime minister says all foreign troops must leave by the end of 2011. Pakistan's coalition government collapses. Russian legislators call for recognition of the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Paul Woodward
26 August, 2008