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2004-02-06 Southeast Asia

Malaysia Factory Counters Nuclear Charges

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Posted by Steve 2004-02-06 10:24:44 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Googled Gulf Technical Industries:

Gulf Technical Industries LLC
Activities: STEEL MILLS-AGENTS, TRADERS - CARBON STEEL, SPECIAL STEEL, PIPES - TUBES, DESIGN - ENGINEERING
More Info: Carbon tubes , heat exchanger tubes , stainless steel tubular , OCTG
Year Established: 2000
Number of Employees: 5

They have a P.O. box and a phone number, but no physical location or web site listed. Interesting.

Posted by Steve 2004-2-6 10:34:41 AM|| 2004-2-6 10:34:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Here's more interesting tidbits:

Scomi's largest shareholder is Kamaluddin Abdullah, the son of the Malaysian Prime Minister, Abdullah Badawi. The 35-year-old son has no management role in the company and does not sit on the board. He is only a shareholder, a Malaysian official familiar with the company said. Scomi's chairman is Tan Sri Asmat Kamaluddin, a former secretary-general of Malaysia's international trade ministry.

Western and Malaysian investigators said the equipment was ordered by Dr Khan, who has admitted responsibility for trading nuclear secrets. He made periodic trips to Malaysia over the past few years, according to Malaysian and Western intelligence agencies, not always travelling under his real name.

I guess Khan was a hands-on type of manager, bet he visited the plant and inpected the goods.

Posted by Steve 2004-2-6 10:52:18 AM|| 2004-2-6 10:52:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I just wonder who the individul is who will be setting off the 1st Terrorist bomb in the next 10 years.

Posted by dataman1 2004-2-6 11:12:44 AM|| 2004-2-6 11:12:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 More tidbits:
Dr Khan grew rich on the nuclear trade, acquiring a hotel in Mali named after his Dutch wife, as well as villas and estates in Pakistan, all on a salary of about Â£15,000 a year, according to leaks to the press in Islamabad. He commandeered a Pakistani military transport plane to fly a cargo of antique furniture accompanied by another Pakistani nuclear scientist to his Timbuktu hotel, via a stopover in Libya, according to the leaks.

Senior sources in Vienna said the Malaysian firm manufactured the centrifuge parts to order from Libya. A spokesman for Scomi said the company had been assured the components would not be used for nuclear purposes and it was recently informed by the Malaysian police that BSA Tahir, a Sri Lankan businessman who arranged the deal, is under investigation by Malaysian, American and British intelligence over his alleged involvement in the supply of nuclear technology to Libya.

Pakistani officials have said Dr Khan ordered "disused equipment" to be sent to Malaysia for "reconditioning" before being sent on to Iran, Libya and North Korea.

Methinks Malaysia has some dirty laundry.

Posted by Steve 2004-2-6 11:25:47 AM|| 2004-2-6 11:25:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 And more: Scomi said its three-year-old plant, located in Shah Alam some 50 kilometres from the capital Kuala Lumpur, did not have the capacity nor tecnology involved in making nuclear weapons. Company officials also insisted that there is no way for them to determine the end usage of components that they supply.

The controversial order for parts was placed through Mr Tahir on behalf of a Middle Eastern company Gulf Technical Industries. Received in December 2001, the sale generated nearly 80 percent of Scomi's entire revenue for the year.

80 percent? Hummm, seems like this is all you do and your other jobs are just a cover operation. By the way, what were the other 20 percent and where did they go?

Posted by Steve 2004-2-6 11:44:31 AM|| 2004-2-6 11:44:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Still more:
The New Straits Times quoted intelligence agency sources as saying that the owner of Gulf Technical Industries (GTI), which ordered the components from SCOPE, was a British citizen named Peter Griffin.
Raw materials for the components were sourced in Singapore from a subsidiary of a German company called Bikar Metalle Germany, the sources said.

They said US, British and Malaysian intelligence services and the IAEA were investigating the two links.

Posted by Steve 2004-2-6 11:51:00 AM|| 2004-2-6 11:51:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Jeepers! So that's what he meant!

"We need guns and rockets, bombs and warplanes, tanks and warships for our defence," Dr Mahathir told leaders from 57 nations gathered for a two-day summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia's new capital.

"But because we are discouraged from learning of science and mathematics . . . we have no capacity to produce our weapons for our defence," he said.

Oh, that's it! Defence (Defense!)! Now who are Malaysia's enemies again?

Posted by Quana 2004-2-6 3:44:39 PM|| 2004-2-6 3:44:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 A spokeswoman for the company, Rohaida Ali Badaruddin, said the company did not seek to determine the end use of equipment it sold or check the backgrounds of customers.

None of these clowns ever will. Those are the type of people we are dealing with. If their countries don't clamp down on them, we need to clamp down on their countries. We are fighting a delaying action until the countries come around. If this keeps going, the WMD "issue" in Iraq will be a very small footnote to the big booms taking place in the West.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-2-6 9:01:10 PM|| 2004-2-6 9:01:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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