Word: euromac
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Last week's sting operation began with a phone call to the London office of CSI Technologies, Inc., an electronics firm based in San Marcos, Calif. The inquiry came from EUROMAC Ltd., a London-based front company for the Iraqi government headed by Ali Ashour Daghir, 49, an Iraqi citizen residing in England. CSI officials were instantly suspicious of EUROMAC's specifications. "They were such that their most likely use would be for detonating a nuclear bomb," says CSI President Jerry Kowalsky. CSI contacted both the U.S. Customs Service and the CIA, and a sting was hatched...
...same time, the suspects were arrested at Heathrow. Those charged with trying to smuggle the capacitors were Daghir; Toufic Fouad Amyuni, 37, a Lebanese engineer; and Speckman, 41, a French export executive with EUROMAC. In addition, Iraqi citizen Omar Latif was arrested and deported to Baghdad. Latif, ostensibly an official with the state-owned Iraqi Airways, was believed to be the head of Iraq's intelligence network in Britain. The next day, the U.S. district court in San Diego unsealed an indictment that charged two British-based companies and five people, among them Daghir and Speckman, with conspiracy to export...
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