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2004-02-12 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Steve 2004-02-12 1:22:20 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 More info: Washington, Feb. 10. (PTI): A Sri Lankan businessman with close connections to Malaysia's business elite, is emerging as a central figure in an international investigation into a clandestine network that sold Pakistani nuclear technology to Libya, Iran and North Korea, a media report said. Bukary Syed Abu Tahir was said to be a key operative for Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, who last week confessed to illicitly selling nuclear expertise and hardware to third countries and named Tahir as an associate in the effort, The Wall Street Journal said in a report from Kuala Lumpur.
The officials and acquaintances say Tahir and Khan have been friends for years, often travelling together on business. Tahir operates a computer supply and trading business known as SBM Group from his headquarters in Dubai. Among his close friends in Kuala Lumpur is Kamaluddin Abdullah, son of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the report said.

Kamaluddin is part owner of the centrifuge factory.

Posted by Steve 2004-2-12 1:29:04 PM|| 2004-2-12 1:29:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I guess another country just became a member of the Nuclear Targeting list.

Posted by djohn66 2004-2-12 3:31:33 PM|| 2004-2-12 3:31:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Time for someone to get a birthday present - preferably a small, very poisonous snake slipped through the mail slot or into an open window. I'm sure the CIA can arrange for such an "accident".

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-2-12 7:11:42 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-2-12 7:11:42 PM|| Front Page Top

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