Rogue Nukes - A Swiss Connection to a Pakistani Bomb Racket?

newsweek ^ | 3/1/04

[knak]

March 1 issue - Did Abdul Qadeer Khan, the notorious Pakistani nuclear proliferator, get help from a prominent Swiss family? Investigators have been unraveling the maze of connections that allowed Khan to supply the budding nuclear-weapons programs of rogue states like Iraq and Libya. Police in Malaysia allege that members of the Tinner family of St. Gallen canton were involved in a recent scheme to set up a factory for making nuclear-bomb production equipment for Libya.

[MJY1288]

I like the way NEWSWEEK puts Kerry and Bush on one of their covers with Kerry in color and bush in black & white........ NO BIAS HERE

[nuconvert]

Swiss involvement?

Why not, everyone else is.

[MJY1288]

From the article

"U.S., European and Asian investigators say the Tinners, like other alleged Khan associates, have been known to international anti-proliferation monitors for years. In the mid-1990s, United Nations inspectors presented Swiss authorities with documents from Iraq showing that Friedrich Tinner had allegedly sold Saddam Hussein what investigators believed were parts for a possible bomb-fuel production line. The Swiss investigated Tinner but accepted his assertion that he did not know the products were headed for Iraq.

After 9/11, interest in the Tinners was renewed when investigators discovered a series of circuitous money transfers from Dubai to Swiss bank accounts and companies controlled by Marco Tinner. NEWSWEEK has learned that some of the money was allegedly routed through a Dubai currency exchange used by the 9/11 hijackers. The Tinners say they're still owed money and know nothing about a possible 9/11 connection.

[MJY1288]

Pic of Frederich Tinner, apparently a HAM Radio Operator

[Adrastus]

This from the people who brought us the ever popular "show us a death certificate and we'll hand over deposits made by holocaust victims" defense. The Swiss have dedicated themselves to the creation of a state based on the concept of pure hypocrisy-for-profit politics. Their national seal shows the profile of Uriah Heep, of Charles Dickens fame.