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I HAVE STOPPED WATCHING TV BECAUSE OF ALL THE DAILY LIES. LIKE 'PAKISTAN STOLE OUR NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY!' THEN WHY THE HELL DID YOU HAVE A PAKISTANI NATIONAL WORKING IN THE MOST SECRET PARTS OF YOUR MOST STRATEGIC MILITARY INDUSTRY? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
[Abdul Qadir Khan]
KHAN: THE DUTCH CONNECTION: HOW HOLLAND SOLD A-BOM TECHNOLOGY TO PAKISTAN
Although it beggars belief that one man alone could have been responsible, Dr A. Q. Khan admitted to leaking nuclear secrets to North Korea, Libya and Iran - despite earlier reports claiming it had been with the knowledge and approval of senior military officials. Following his confession on a live broadcast on 3 February, Khan apologized to the nation and was swiftly pardoned by President Musharraf who later added that there would be no independent inquiry into the case.
(603.5575) Laka Foundation - Between 1960 and 1963, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan followed metallurgical engineering courses at the Technical University in Germany (Berlin). In 1967, he received his MSc. degree at the Delft Technological University (Netherlands) and became Doctor of Engineering at the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 1972.
After his doctorate in 1972, he began work for the FDO laboratory in Amsterdam (Netherlands), a subcontracting research institute for the Urenco plant in Almelo. Urenco is a consortium set up by the Dutch, British and German governments to provide enrichment technology. FDO was at the time involved in research and development of centrifuge technology. Khan also worked at the Urenco enrichment plant at Almelo itself but left the Netherlands suddenly in 1975. By 1976, he had joined the Engineering Research laboratories (ERL) in Kahuta, Pakistan, to set up a uranium enrichment industrial plant. In 1981, the then president of Pakistan General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq renamed the ERL the Dr. A. Q. Khan Research Laboratories (KRL). It became the main laboratory for Pakistan's nuclear weapons program and its centrifuge plant was used to produce Pakistan's high-enriched uranium for nuclear weapons.
It was not until July 1978, that questions were raised about Khan's activities during his time in the Netherlands. In England an anonymous source, believed to be the Israeli secret service, tipped off an MP about a shipment to Pakistan by Emerson Industrial Controls of high-frequency inverters (inverters are an important part of the centrifuge process and stabilize the flow of electricity).
Eventually bells began to ring and in January 1980 a Dutch parliamentary commission concluded that security at Urenco and FDO was lax; that Khan smuggled blueprints for enrichment technology out of the country and had been able to order equipment that could be used in uranium enrichment from Dutch companies. The report also said that even after Khan had left in 1975, it was possible for him to obtain sensitive materials and technology through his contacts.
In 1983, two companies, FDO and Van Doorne (rotor suppliers), and Khan were summoned by the Dutch state and in October Khan was sentenced in absentia to 4 years. However, in 1985 the sentence was nullified because it was not clear that Khan actually had received the writ. Both companies were cleared of all charges.
Khan continued to visit the Netherlands in the 1990s and in 1998 Dutch customs intercepted several shipments to Pakistan ordered by Khan's contacts (meanwhile Pakistan tested a nuclear weapon and Khan was named the "father of the Islamic bomb").
One of his contacts in the Netherlands is said to be Henk Slebos (the famous middleman "Hank S", mentioned by Pakistan authorities recently). Slebos was sentenced to one-year imprisonment in 1985, because of a breach of customs-laws: he exported advanced materials (an oscilloscope) to Pakistan and helped the development of the Pakistan nuclear program. The Dutch Ministry of Economics blocked five shipments from Slebos to Pakistan in 1998. The shipments contained dual-use goods without a declaration by the Pakistani authorities that these were meant for peaceful purposes. Slebos never attempted to obtain a proper export license and likely cancelled the deal.
Slebos had, and still has, several trade companies (Slebos Research, Gemco, Bodmerhof) for "hard-to-find materials" (quote from his website www.slebos.com). In September 2003 Slebos was one of the sponsors of ISAM 2003 (International Symposium on Advanced Materials); organized by the Khan Research Laboratories.
Sources: The Observer, 9 December 1979; Financial Times, 3 March 1980; Trouw (NL), 3 July 1985; Vrij Nederland (NL), 6 June 1998; Press release Dutch organization against arms-trade, 3 September 2003; De Groene Amsterdammer, 6 September 2003; Personal Information, A.Q. Khan, 2003
Khan-affaire: regering houdt cruciale informatie jaren geheim 20 januari 2004
“En dan duikt er in deze geheime bijlage uit juli 1979 een naam op, die in verband met de huidige actualiteit erg interessant is. De bijlage gaat namelijk als volgt verder: "met inbegrip van bezoeken van de heer Sleebos ". De heer Sleebos is de latere zakenpartner van Khan, als die uit Nederland naar Pakistan is verdwenen. Sleebos zou zich ontwikkelen tot een van de belangrijkste leveranciers van materiaal en ander spullen voor Khans atoomwapenproject in Pakistan. Na eerdere veroordelingen voor deze verboden leveranties staat Sleebos aanstaande maandag opnieuw terecht. “
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^LOL @ the "effeminate black man written accent" (it's the straw that "'brakes' the camels bach" considering all the other funny accents here), but if you read the Gay Animals Too thread u might reconsider.
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Dutch Business man (Henk Slebos) convicted for illegal trade with Pakistan. He got 18 months prison, of which 6 suspended, and 135.000 Euro in fines.
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Nederlandse zakenman veroordeeld voor illegale handel Pakistan
30 januari 2009
Het Amsterdamse Gerechtshof heeft Henk Slebos in hoger beroep veroordeeld tot 18 maanden gevangenisstraf, waarvan 6 voorwaardelijk, en een boete van 135.000 euro. Slebos krijgt de straf (hoger dan in eerste instantie) voor de illegale export van proliferatiegevoelig materiaal naar Pakistan. De Noord-Hollandse zakenman heeft er nooit een geheim van gemaakt meegeholpen te hebben aan de Pakistaanse atoombom. Zijn studievriend Abdul Qadeer Khan stal in het begin van de jaren zeventig geheimen bij de verrijkingsfabriek in Almelo. De strafzaak begon in 2004.
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Khan wegens vormfout vrijgesproken van atoomspionage 28 maart 1985 Nadat Khan in eerste instantie op 14 november 1983 bij verstek tot 4 jaar cel wordt veroordeeld wegens de poging geheime gegevens over centrifugetechnologie te bemachtigen, wordt hij nu in hoger beroep wegens een vormfout vrijgesproken: het is onduidelijk of hij de dagvaarding heeft ontvangen. Het OM beslist in juni 1986, dat hij niet opnieuw vervolgd gaat worden; de feiten zijn te lang geleden en daarom verliest een nieuwe strafvervolging “opportuniteit.“ Hij wordt wel tot persona non grata veroordeeld, maar blijft ook daarna Nederland clandestien bezoeken en krijgt ook minstens 3 keer officieel ‘op humanitaire gronden’ toestemming om Nederland te bezoeken. Zo wordt hij in december 1988 aangehouden en het land uitgezet. Ondertussen zijn Van Doorne’s Transmissie en FDO in respectievelijk september en november 1984 vrijgesproken. In september 1987 komt FDO opnieuw onder vuur als bekend wordt dat 2 Tsjechische stagiaires vanaf 1968 ook toegang gehad kunnen hebben tot al het geheime ultracentrifuge onderzoek. Op 2 juli 1985 wordt Khan’s Nederlandse zakenpartner en vriend Slebos tot 12 maanden cel veroordeelt wegens illegale uitvoer en hulp aan het Pakistaanse atoomprogramma.
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