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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

Nutcase links, re: Karni, etc.

http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=7341
http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16865

Bush links to nuclear arms smuggler Asher Karni are real reason Plame and Brewster Jennings & Associates exposed. Wayne Madsen Report. On Aug 8, Karni (Israeli citizen) was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina to three years in prison for trying to ship the nuclear triggers to the A.Q. Khan network in Pakistan.
Asher Karni ties to neocons? search "Asher Karni" "Douglas Feith" reaped 87 hits....and Portland Indymedia and see AIPAC reference

http://www.newsfollowup.com/leakgate3a.htm

Karni's e-mail traffic to and from Khan was being intercepted by a covert agent in South Africa and being forwarded to U.S. authorities. It is not known whether the covert agent was a Brewster Jennings' asset but it would not be surprising considering Karni was an important link in the A. Q. Khan nuclear smuggling network. ...

Israeli nuclear arms smuggler Asher Karni: His links to Bush administration and Israeli officials may have been the real reason Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings & Associates operations were exposed. ...

I think this is saying the REAL REASON Plame was leaked was to stop the investigation of US and Israeli complicity in selling nuclear detonators to Iran, then using that fact they had them, would be another false reason to attak Iran! Like the false WMDs of Iraq.

The recent Central Asian news also points out that US Special operations are supporting Islamic extremists in order to overthrow regimes that do not wish to cooperate with US corporation oil dealings.See the Wayne Madsen report and your local newspapers, how Central Asian countries are banning U.S. forces from their cities.

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/08/322458.shtml