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...gates on his remaining ski. In the downhill last Saturday, he kept both skis on and won a second gold, beating teammate Daron Rahlves by almost half a second. "Miller is a Bewegungstalent," says an admiring Toni Giger, head coach of the powerful Austrian team. That's the German expression for exceptional agility. Or maybe it means "That dude is whack." "He takes the full risk," says Giger. "But then he shows he can correct his mistakes. That is his strength." It is not an approach, Giger hastens to add, that he would recommend. "It's very dangerous...
...company's profits. That argument has stung Boeing, especially since it is involved in investigations of illegal or unethical behavior in its relationship with the Pentagon. Boeing has already fired two executives and is cooperating with authorities. But Europeans fail to mention that Airbus' majority stakeholders (the Franco-German conglomerate European Aeronautic Defense & Space Co. and BAe Systems, based in Britain) have significant military businesses too. The Europeans also object to state governments' providing tax benefits or other subsidies to Boeing. Says Airbus' Forgeard: "We want a level playing field...
...with Khan's Iran connection established, another global pariah, Libya, sought him out. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had tried in the late 1980s to build his own nuclear program by importing German technology and engineers, but the effort failed. To make its bombs, Libya wanted to enrich uranium rather than produce plutonium in a reactor because, says the official, "with a reactor, you cannot hide anything." Khan's system was a perfect fit, and as the commercial relationship was launched, Khan's underlings whetted Gaddafi's appetite with an unexpected gift. Khan gave the Libyans a stack of technical instructions...
...deal was worth $100 million. To fill the order, Khan turned to old contacts in Western Europe and South Africa, in some instances using the same people he had done business with in the 1980s. Among the shadowy middlemen involved over the years were South African Johan Meyer and German-- South African Gerhard Wisser, who allegedly helped set up a processing facility that could be shipped whole to Libya. Khan's crew tapped furnacemakers in Italy, lathemakers in Spain, and Swiss middlemen who helped design parts for construction in Southeast Asia. The network began sending Libya crateloads of equipment, routing...
When several Italian coast-guard cutters set out from the industrial port city of Taranto on that country's southeastern coast on Oct. 4, 2003, they had specific orders: to detain and board a German-flagged cargo ship called the BBC China, then heading for Libya. The seizure had, in fact, been arranged jointly by the CIA and MI6, the overseas arm of British intelligence. When the agents boarded the BBC China, what they found was anything but routine: five large containers, each carefully packed with precision machine tools, tubes and other bombmaking equipment. The containers amounted to part...