Malaysia clears nuclear dealer

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Confessed nuclear black marketeer Buhary Syed Abu Tahir is free to leave Malaysia, police said, as authorities abroad widened investigations into his role in a trafficking network that sold nuclear secrets to Iran and Libya.

A three-month police investigation found no evidence that Tahir -- or a Malaysian company he contracted to make parts for Libya's nuclear program -- had broken Malaysian law, national police chief Mohamed Bakri Omar said.

The government said the finding vindicates its claim that US President George W. Bush unfairly singled out Malaysia by naming it in connection to the network, and that the issue should now be put to rest.

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