Britons 'had key role in Libyan nuclear arms'

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1152859,00.html

A British businessman and his son suspected of procuring blackmarket equipment to make nuclear weapons were instrumental in setting up Libya's weapons programme, the Malaysian police allege.

Peter Griffin, 68, and his son Paul, 40, from Swansea but based in Dubai and France, supplied equipment, technology and helped arranged the training of technicians "to set up a workshop in Libya to make centrifuge components which could not be obtained from outside Libya" a 17-page police report says.

It claims that they set up a front company to buy parts around the world and helped an operation to make parts in a Malaysian factory for the multinational network run by Pakistan's senior nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan.

The report is based mainly on evidence from another of the network's middlemen, Buhary Seyed Abu Tahir, and briefings by British and US intelligence agents.

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