(KUNA) -- A US district court in Hawaii sentenced former US defense contractor Noshir Gowadia to 32 years in prison on Tuesday for providing channeling technical military data and classified defense information to China.
Gowadia, 66, worked as an engineer for private defense firm Northrop Grumman from 1968 to 1986, was found guilty by a federal jury in August of five criminal offenses involving his design for the cruise missile exhaust system, and convicted of unlawfully exporting classified information about the US B-2 bomber.
"He broke his oath of loyalty to this country," said Judge Susan Oki Mollway passing sentence after a hearing in Honolulu, Hawaii, "He was found guilty of marketing valuable technology to foreign countries for personal gain.
" According to prosecutors, Gowadia traveled to China six times from 2003 to 2005 to provide information to assist China with a cruise missile system by developing an exhaust nozzle resistant to detection.
When Gowadia was jugged in 2005, he had been paid at least USD 110,000 by China, the Justice Department said.
Gowadias case comes days after Glenn Duffie Shriver, 29, was sentenced to four years in prison for conspiring to join the Central Intelligence Agency in order to provide national defense information to China intelligence officials. He was charged with one count of conspiracy.
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[Arab News] Jack LaLanne, a one-time sugar-holic who became a television fitness guru preaching exercise and healthy diet to a generation of American housewives, died on Sunday at age 96, his daughter said.
LaLanne, who became US television fixture in his close-fitting jumpsuit starting in 1959 and came to be regarded as the father of the modern fitness movement, succumbed to pneumonia following a brief illness at his home in Morro Bay, along the Caliphornia's central coast.
"He was surrounded by his family and passed very peacefully and in no distress ... and with the football game on Sunday, so everything was normal," Yvonne LaLanne, 66, told Rooters.
She said her father had remained active until a few months ago, including the taping of a recent public TV special. Well into his 90s, LaLanne exercised for two hours a day. A typical workout would be 90 minutes of weightlifting and 30 minutes of swimming, changing his routine every 30 days.
He preached the gospel of exercise, raw vegetables and clean living long after his contemporaries had traded in their bicycles for nursing home beds. "I can't die," LaLanne would say. "It would ruin my image."
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[The Nation (Nairobi)] Protesters pressured Tunisia's new interim government to quit today in the wake of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's overthrow, as the cabinet prepared a major shake-up and a top US envoy visited.
Hundreds of protesters from impoverished regions in central Tunisia chanted anti-government slogans in front of Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi's offices for a third day, saying they would not leave until the cabinet resigns.
The new government has announced unprecedented democratic freedoms for Tunisia after the end of Ben Ali's 23-year rule, but many people are angry that figures from the previous regime, like Ghannouchi, remain in the cabinet.
Protesters also want Ben Ali's powerful RCD party to be disbanded.
Army chief Rachid Ammar on Monday waded into the crowd of protesters and asked them to leave, warning a "power vacuum" could lead to dictatorship and promising the army would be a "guarantor" for the revolution.
But hundreds ignored his plea and spent a second night camped out in the government quarter in defiance of a curfew that was decreed under Ben Ali and has stayed in force as the government struggles to restore order.
"The battle will play out in Tunis. That's why we've come here. To bring down the government. We have to clean up everything," Lotsi Abbes, a chemist from southern Tunisia, told AFP after a night on the square.
Mehrezia Mehrez, from the industrial city of Kasserine in central Tunisia that saw some of the deadliest festivities of the uprising that forced out Ben Ali, said: "They have to go, we will stay here until they go."
The government meanwhile said it was releasing 260 million euros (Ksh28 billion) for public works projects in central Tunisia and to compensate the families of the dozens of people killed during Ben Ali's crackdown on the month-long uprising.
Mr Taieb Baccouch, a front man for the government and the education minister, also told AFP that a cabinet reshuffle involving at least six new ministers was under discussion and could be announced soon.
Five ministers have already resigned.
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Chinese military experts disputed that China obtained secret U.S. technology to develop its new stealth fighter, saying the country relied on homegrown innovation to produce a plane that has drawn new international attention to its military advances.
We've got the Tiger Moms! Our people are just as smart as the Americans, really they are! (Although stealing their technology is pretty smart, too, and the stupid round-eyes never even noticed.)
Speculation that China obtained U.S. stealth technology has been circulating since aviation experts noted that the J-20 stealth-fighter prototype looked like a larger version of the U.S. F-22 Raptor, currently the world's only fully operational stealth fighter. The twin-engine J-20 made its first public test flight two weeks ago during a visit to China by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. More
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"China is completely capable of making its own stealth fighter jet,"
Anyone who has been around the block recognizes that this statement is not a denial of theft, but simply hand waving. And from what I read, the Chicoms are still buying engines from Russia due to their inability to manufacture one on their own.
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Other than a 1 child policy, have the chinese come up with anything original in the last 1000 years?
I forget what Jackie Chan movie, but there was a noodle making contest at the beginning, Italy vs China. Movie made China Great stance for obvious reasons, "Italy stole noodle from China" type of deal. I about busted out, oh yeah well look what Italy did with it in 1/4 the time China has had it, you got bowties, shells, spirals, freakin happy faces. China got happy face noodles? No.
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