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Nuclear Smuggling Ring Gets White House Pass
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Bush administration's silence over AQ Khan network impeding:Albright
Washington | May 27, 2006 3:38:46 PM IST
Even two years after the notorious AQ Khan network of nuclear smuggling was disrupted, the Bush administration has done nothing to enable a Swiss effort to prosecute three of the alleged leaders of the ring, by not sharing critical information with the Swiss authorities, according to American arms expert David Albright.
Testifying before the House Sub-committee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation here today, Mr Albright said the three leaders of the ring, besides disgraced Pakistan nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, are Urs Tinner, a Swiss national who organised the acquisition of manufacturing equipment in Europe and its shipment to Dubai and Libya, Tinner’s brother Marco Tinner and their father Friedrich Tinner, a mechanical engineer, who allegedly arranged for a centrifuge component to be made by an unsuspecting Swiss company using raw materials from a Singapore company, hired by Urs.
The Sub-committee hearing was on ''AQ Khan Network: The Case is not closed.'' This was the very first time that there was a separate hearing devoted entirely to the nuclear smuggling ring in the US House of Representatives.
Mr Albright said the US government had ''ignored multiple requests for cooperation'' in prosecuting members of the AQ Khan network.
''The prosecutors have not received a reply, or even a confirmation that the US government received the requests,'' Mr Albright told the panel. (…)
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