Закон в силе - Law Booster I. Дроботенко Ю.Б - 47 стр.

                                                                                         They were taken last June from the French home of Peter Griffin by
                                                                                  agents trying to penetrate the black market in nuclear secrets established by
                                                                                  the disgraced Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.
                                                                                         Yesterday the Guardian revealed that Mr. Griffin and his son Paul had
                                                                                  emerged as key suspects in the international investigation because of their
ARTICLE V                                                                         Dubai company's alleged involvement in a shipment of nuclear components
1. Express your opinion following the general tips for discussion.                from Malaysia to Libya last October.
   General tips for discussion:                                                          They deny being involved and insist that they had been framed. They
                                                                                  said yesterday that they had cleared all their exports with the British gov-
    Ö Do you think that nuclear weapon is easy to be made if somebody             ernment.
        knows the technology?                                                            Speaking from Dubai, Paul Griffin said their company, Gulf Techni-
    Ö Is it difficult for authorities to spot and arrest those who work on        cal Industries (GTI), had good relations with the Department of Trade
        nuclear black market secrets?                                             and Industry (DTI). "We never had any problems with it," he said. "I spoke
    Ö Should such serious cases as nuclear components trading be tried in         to the British embassy here again and they said they know nothing about
      international court or it is just an internal affair of the countries?      these allegations. It's damaging my business. The investigating authorities
    Ö Do you find the policy of American, British and Russian intelli-            should be looking at Malaysia, it's nothing to do with us."
      gence services to be successful and efficient in penetrating the ille-             His father was reported in the New York Times as having being
      gal nuclear weapons network?                                                checked in London and that his exports to Pakistan were officially approved.
    Ö Do you think that all countries in the world can solve the problem          Mr. Griffin, who lives in France, also denied that their company had been
      by signing the international protocol of cooperative work on fight-         involved in shipping centrifuges for enriching nuclear fuel to Libya.
      ing with nuclear components trading?                                               The DTI said it could not talk about individual cases. Its spokes-
                                                                                  woman said that exports from Britain were carefully monitored, but those
2. Read the article and make its presentation (follow the steps of crime          from British-owned companies overseas were not regulated. The law gov-
   report presentation and use necessary linking devices).                        erning British companies operating abroad is due to change soon.
                                                                                         The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, yesterday praised the role of Brit-
    Vocabulary note:                                                              ish and US intelligence in penetrating and dismantling the illegal nuclear
      MI6 = in Britain, the government organization that secretly sends           weapons network established by Dr Khan.
             people to other countries to get important military and political           "What we had here was somebody who had made an operational
             information about them                                               bomb, who knew all the technology and was selling this on the black market,
      intelligence officers = officers that collect information about the se-     basically to anybody who could pay the price. The only relative reassurance
                              cret plans and activities of a foreign govern-      that I can provide is that there are relatively few people with the skills and
                              ment, enemy, etc.                                   experience and access to nuclear material and equipment that Dr Khan had
                                                                                  over many years," he said at a press conference in London.
      MI6 seized computers from British suspect                                          British officials familiar with the investigation said the network in-
      Richard Norton-Taylor, Owen Bowcott, and Ian Traynor in Zagreb              volved "crooks, governments and money-laundering".
      British and French intelligence officers seized computers from the                 Mr. Straw said that Britain and the US would push for the Interna-
home of a British businessman named as a central suspect in the secret net-       tional Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to be strengthened. Britain would
work supplying Libya, Iran and North Korea with nuclear equipment, the            also urge more countries to sign the international protocol allowing IAEA
Guardian has learned.                                                             officials to conduct more unannounced inspections of their nuclear facilities.
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