[snugs]

I presume it is the anti trust commission or whatever you call it.

Unfortunately in both cases they talk a good story but rarely do much expect scupper a good deal but let the bad ones go through

[Cboldt]

66 Nuclear Triggers - Krytrons

An Israeli ex-pat, Asher Karni, living in South Africa, ordered a couple hundred Perkins Elmer GP-20B switches. The devices are dual-use technology, and on a US export restriction list. Pekins Elmer was suspicious of the order, and tipped off US authorites. They prepared a shipment of 66 DISABLED switches and sent them to Mr. Karni.

Karni shipped the switches to his customer in Pakisatan, via Air Freight, routing through Dubai.

Karni was arrested when he and his wife came to the United States for a ski vacation. He was tried and plead guilty to violation of export restriction laws. He was recently (August 4, 2005) sentenced to 3 years, and is in jail.

A few links turned up in research ...

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/middleman.html
http://www.ijn.com/archive/2004%20arch/011604.htm
https://www.bis.doc.gov/News/2005/PakistaniBusinessman.htm
http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/01/sibel-josh-myer-nuclear-network.html
http://www.isis-online.org/publications/southafrica/asherkarni.html
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/headlines/israeli_asher_karni_nuclear_terrorism_network
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/nuclear/

FR threads that include reference to Asher Karni

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=nuclearblackmarket http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1058290/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1081573/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380208/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380430/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1388781/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472239/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1272990/posts?page=10#10