Where is the justice?

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Butler, Kenley ^a   Salama, Sammy ^a,b   Spector, Leonard S ^c,d  

^a MONTEREY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program   (United States)

^c Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)   (United States)

^d Estados Unidos de América   (United States)

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EID: 33750507500     PISSN: 00963402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2968/062006009     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. President George W. Bush told an audience at the National Defense University on February 11, 2004, "Governments around the world worked closely with us to unravel the Khan network and to put an end to his criminal enterprise. A. Q. Khan has confessed his crimes, and his top associates are out of business." At the Third Asia Security Conference in Singapore on June 5, 2004, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he was confident that "the network had been dismantled." Then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice told CNN on October 3, 2004, "The A. Q. Khan network is out of business, and people are being brought to justice."
2. Statement of Cong. Gary L. Ackerman, House Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation of the Committee on International Relations, Hearing of the House of Representatives, Serial No. 109-182, 109th Cong., 2nd sess., May 25, 2006, commdocs.house.gov/committees/ intlrel/hfa27811.000/hfa27811_0.HTM.
3. This article focuses on those individuals closely linked to Khan network transactions. Individuals indicted or charged with trafficking in illicit goods intended for Pakistan's own nuclear weapons program - but who were not directly affiliated with the Khan network - include Humayun Khan (no relation to A. Q. Khan), a Pakistani businessman and owner of an Islamabad-based firm called Pakland who was indicted by the United States for his involvement in the illegal shipment of nuclear triggers, and Asher Kami, an Israeli businessman and South African resident currently serving a three-year sentence for illegally selling U.S.-origin nuclear components to Pakistan.
4. "Pakistan Says Nuclear Proliferation Chapter Is Closed," Agence France Presse, May 3, 2006.
5. Uitspraak, Rechtbank Alkmaar, Parketnummer: 14.038041-04 (Verdict, Court of Alkmaar, Case Number: 14.038041-04), December 16, 2005, zoeken.rechtspraak.nl/zoeken/ dtluitspraak.asp?searchtype=ljn&ljn=AU8250&u_ljn=AU8250.
6. Mark Hibbs, "Malaysian Testimony Rejected in Lerch Trial Halted by Court," Nucleonics Week, August 3, 2006.
7. Ibid.
8. "CIA Asked Us to Let Nuclear Spy Go, Ruud Lubbers Claims," Netherlands National News Agency, August 9, 2005.
9. Joby Warrick, "U.S. Silence Impeding Swiss in Nuclear Case; Expert Says Calls Have Been Ignored," Washington Post, May 26, 2006, p. A16.
10. Testimony of Andrew Koch, House Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation of the Committee on International Relations, Hearing of the House of Representatives, Serial No. 109-182, 109th Cong., 2nd sess., May 25, 2006, commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/ hfa27811.000/hfa27811_0.HTM.
11. Stephanie Lieggi, "Disclosures of Illicit Supply Networks Expose Weaknesses in European Export Control Systems," International Export Control Observer, December 2005/January 2006, pp. 14-18.
12. The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) is known to have come to the attention of investigators for its possible role in financing illegal nuclear transactions. See "The BCCI Affair: Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate" by Sen. John Kerry and Sen. Hank Brown, December 1992. Appendix "Matters for Further Investigation," www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt /bcci. BCCI has since gone out of business after being banned in seven countries.
13. Koch testimony, House Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation, May 25, 2006.
14. Iftikhar Ali, "Banned N-Tech Went to Pakistan, India: U.S.," The Nation (Pakistan), April 10, 2005.
15. See also: Lara Jakes Jordan, "Pakistani Charged With Export of Devices With Nuclear Uses," Associated Press, April 9, 2005.