The man who used hospitals to trade in nukes

[dArKeR]

Cape Town businessman Asher Karni imported high-tech triggers from the United States supposedly to be used in "lithotripter" machines to break up kidney stones at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto.

Instead he diverted them to a Pakistani businessman, to be used to detonate nuclear bombs in Pakistan's controversial nuclear weapons programme, US agents charge.

Israeli-born Karni, 50, is now in Washington DC facing charges under America's tough laws restricting the export of "dual-use" items, like the "triggered spark gaps" which can be used both for civilian and military purposes. He could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=13&art_id=ct20040215095700596N236444&set_id=1

[Webster Green]

1. 10 years?.... WTF?

And the feds just filed charges against a California couple for growing medical marijuana (no sales). They are facing 15 years to life.

[dArKeR]

2. And a kid goes for an Indiana Jones adventure in Afghanistan and gets...?

What does check bouncers get? 5 years?