By Kenley Butler, Sammy Salama, Leonard S. Spector, November 1, 2006
“We busted the A. Q. Khan network,” President George W. Bush declared
in 2004. Yet, two years later, most of Khan’s accomplices remain free. And Henk
Slebos, one of Khan’s key European operatives, got off with a reduced sentence. The
message is clear: Let the punishment fit the crime-unless the crime happens to be trafficking
in nuclear technology.
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