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Did you know that a Middle Easterner residing in South Africa has been picked up on federal charges of conspiring to send 200 American-made nuclear weapons detonators to Pakistan? Probably not. It was easy to miss, just a three-paragraph item on page 12 of yesterday�s New York Times, tucked away as an after-thought at the bottom of a much longer story about an atom scientist in Pakistan. One would presume that the suspect, Asher Karni, would be currently awaiting trial in one of John Ashcroft�s undisclosed holding pens while undergoing �intensive interrogation,� but one would presume wrongly. Karni is not a Pakistani or a Moroccan or an American-born Yemeni from Buffalo. He is an Israeli citizen, and he is free on bail at a rabbi�s home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Not to worry, though. The judge ordered him to wear a monitoring device. For a few more details on the case, very few, see this old Reuters story out of Denver. Karni was arrested there on New Year�s day. Surely you remember all the media hullaballoo about it at the time? Me neither. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
