Most likely Muslims or terrorist sympathizers in the Dutch Justice Ministry.
Bruce (http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2005\12\10\story_10-12-2005_p g7_2) Saturday, December 10, 2005 'No evidence CIA destroyed dossier on Khan' AMSTERDAM: The Dutch justice minister acknowledged on Friday that the dossier of evidence used to prosecute Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan in the 1980s had disappeared, but said there was no evidence of CIA involvement. Khan worked in the 1970s for a Dutch-based European nuclear research centre, from which he stole secrets used to develop Pakistan's nuclear bomb. He was convicted in absentia in Amsterdam for the theft in 1983, but it was overturned on appeal in 1985 on a technicality. In a letter to the Dutch parliament released on Friday, Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner said a formal investigation had found the dossier was now empty, except for "a few administrative documents, such as the 1983 verdict and the decision on appeal in 1985." He said the dossier had likely been destroyed about a decade after the case concluded, though investigators could not rule out other possibilities. His ministry would draw up new guidelines to preserve materials from important cases, he said. "As for the idea that the CIA played any role in the manner in which the criminal dossier of Khan was administered, no evidence of that was found," Donner's letter said. Last year, Khan acknowledged selling nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea. Khan, who was revered in his own country for countering the nuclear threat from rival India, was granted a pardon by President Pervez Musharraf. Former Dutch prime minister Ruud Lubbers said earlier this year that the CIA had insisted the Netherlands not prosecute Khan when the theft was first detected in 1975, as well as when he returned to the country in 1986 to arrange an equipment shipment. He quoted the CIA as saying it wanted to continue shadowing Khan to find out more about his operations. The CIA and Pakistan's intelligence service were covert allies in the 1980s against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and were careful to preserve good relations between the two countries. India was a military client of the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. Khan graduated with a metallurgical engineering degree from Delft University in 1967. In the early 1970s was hired by a subsidiary of the Dutch company Urenco, the Physical Dynamic Research laboratory, which was developing sensitive ultra centrifuge technology used for uranium enrichment. For years, Khan had access to confidential nuclear secrets that later became the heart of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme. agencies ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/g0CDCD/tzNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
