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America and the Islamic Bomb: The Deadly Compromise, a new book by National Security News Service reporters David Armstrong and Joe Trento, is featured in the following MSNBC report:

Did West Blow Chance to Halt Iran's Nuke Plans?

British agent says he alerted U.S., U.K. to A.Q. Khan's network in 2000

By Richard Greenberg and Robert Windrem

Oct 30, 2007

As the U.S. and Europe brace for a showdown with Iran over that country’s nuclear program, a former British Customs investigator is asserting that the West missed a golden opportunity to disrupt Tehran’s nuclear effort seven years ago.

Atif Amin says that as a U.K. Customs agent in 2000, he uncovered evidence that Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan was running a nuclear black market. But the United States and United Kingdom waited more than three years to take action to shut down the Khan network, which supplied Libya, North Korea and Iran with gas centrifuge technology to enrich uranium.

Had they moved against Khan sooner, Amin believes and some critics agree, Iran might not have as many as 3,000 centrifuges today and be threatening to become a nuclear power.

The previously undisclosed account of Amin’s thwarted investigation is included in a new book about A.Q. Khan titled “America and the Islamic Bomb: The Deadly Compromise” by David Armstrong and Joseph Trento of the National Security News Service. Amin recently sat down with NBC News and discussed details...Click Here to Continue.