Posted on 08/25/2006 1:09:04 PM PDT by Marius3188
TOKYO, Aug. 25 — Five executives of the Mitutoyo Corporation, a precision instruments maker, were arrested today on suspicion of illegally exporting equipment to Malaysia that could be used in making nuclear weapons.
Japanese television broadcast video images of police raiding the company’s headquarters in the city of Kawasaki. A spokesman for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police said the president of the company, Kazusaku Tezuka, 67, and four other executives were taken into custody.
The case turns on what the police said were shipments of advanced measuring devices that were sent to an unspecified recipient in Malaysia in late 2001 without government permission. In Japan as in most advanced nations, exports of advanced technology with potential uses in nuclear bomb-making are tightly regulated and licenses are required.
While police provided few further details, reports by the Kyodo News Agency and many leading Japanese newspapers suggested that the devices may have been shipped to Scomi Precision Engineering, a company that has since been linked to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani nuclear scientist who organized the sale of nuclear technology to Libya.
The newspaper and agency reports said that at least one of Mitutoyo’s devices later found its way to Libya by way of Dubai on an Iranian-flagged cargo ship.
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Yippie, more islamderthals with nukes.
Also in the article:
"The newspaper and agency reports said that at least one of Mitutoyo’s devices later found its way to Libya by way of Dubai on an Iranian-flagged cargo ship.
The reports said police were also investigating whether other similar measuring devices may have been sent to Iran through a Tokyo-based trading company."
At this point I'm just hoping the first jihadi nuke goes off somewhere other than here. The world is going to have to march on all of islam where ever it's found but we can't do it alone.
Hhhmmmm...this is startling. Also recall during the first week of the war with Lebanon and Israel there was a truck caught and stopped by- of all countries- Bulgaria, with radioactive material (dirty bomb makings?) on it's way to Iran...
Count me on board. Crusade!
I must have missed that one in all of the excitement from Israel and Lebanon.
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