The story appears to be from newsmax.com
Let's think about this a minute. The White House is known to plant false information with reporters and "journalists" such as Judith Miller, Robert Novak, William Kristol. They're also known to give talking points to right wing commentators (or their producers) to, as Bush phrased it, "catapult the propaganda".
So, we see one story on NewsMax and we're just supposed to buy it hook, line and sinker?
Maybe they believe in Cheney's 1% doctrine:
"If there's a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. It's not about our analysis ... It's about our response.'