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US frustrates swiss nuclear smuggling probe { June 1 2006 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C06%5C01%5Cstory_1-6-2006_pg7_2 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C06%5C01%5Cstory_1-6-2006_pg7_2 Thursday, June 01, 2006 US frustrates Swiss nuclear smuggling probe Daily Times Monitor A Swiss investigation into an international nuclear smuggling network is being hampered by a lack of cooperation from the United States, according to a report by website Swissinfo. Authorities in Bern say they asked US officials for judicial assistance a year ago but have yet to receive a reply. Washington’s failure to respond to “multiple” Swiss appeals was revealed last week by former Un weapons inspector David Albright, says the report. He told a US hearing into the “nuclear trafficking ring run by Dr Qadeer Khan” that he found the lack of cooperation by the US “frankly embarrassing”. “It is difficult to understand the actions of the US government. Its lack of assistance needlessly complicates this important investigation,” said Albright, who is president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security. The Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s Office said it still expected a response to its requests for assistance. “We are confident we will get an answer because it is in the best interests of Switzerland and the US that the criminal investigation led by the Swiss authorities in nuclear proliferation can be carried out successfully,” spokesman Hansjürg Mark Wiedmer told Swissinfo. The Swiss authorities have arrested three men from the same family – Friedrich, Urs and Marco Tinner – on suspicion of helping to supply gas centrifuge parts for use in Libya’s nuclear weapons programme between 2001 and 2003. “The United States should respond to the Swiss requests for assistance as quickly as possible,” said Albright.

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