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...Male readers especially will find the book sodden with tears, hugs and declarations of sisterhood. But then the author's own life gets interesting. Yearning for someone to watch over her, she plays along when friends jovially offer to arrange a marriage - and suddenly finds herself wed to Samer Khan, a moody former mujahedin fighter with whom she has virtually nothing in common, including a language. The union heads for the rocks when Rodriguez learns he has a wife, newly pregnant, in Pakistan. Yet Khan rises to the challenge, facing down murderous husbands, malignant bureaucrats and other perils to keep...
...Iran remains the most active customer in the nuclear black market, a customer that has built an equivalent if not even larger network than A.Q. Khan's," IISS proliferation specialist Mark Fitzpatrick told a gathering of reporters and proliferation experts in Washington Tuesday. The IISS study, Nuclear Black markets: Pakistan, A.Q. Khan and the Rise of Proliferation Networks, concludes that despite Khan having been placed under house arrest by the Pakistan government in 2004, elements of his supply network, which spanned three continents, remain active and dangerous...
...Iran has sought dual-use goods from some of the same people and firms that A.Q. Khan employed," Fitzpatrick said. "It has also been turning to new technology providers. And although some countries have tightened their vigilance, Iran still is trying to evade export controls by repeatedly changing front countries and financing arrangements...
...Arab Emirates and other Gulf states. The U.S. has repeatedly sought help from these countries in shutting down Iranian fronts and financial networks, but with mixed results, at best. The IISS study asserts that the UAE is a "common destination for illicit items and eventually the hub of the Khan network." It adds that Iran is one of the top recipients of non-oil exports from the Emirates, and predicts that "the UAE's relatively lax export controls will no doubt prove tempting to Iran if the international community continues to target its nuclear-related imports...
...IISS also warns that the legacy of the Khan network may yet provide more nasty surprises. "How much help Khan gave Iran and North Korea and whether the Khan network had other customers are questions of intense interest to investigative agencies," it says. Some equipment thought to have been in the network's possession remains unaccounted for. Most ominously, the IISS report suggests that other nations, or even non-state actors such as al-Qaeda, could have received copies of a nuclear-weapon design that the Khan network is known to have peddled to Libya. (The Libyan regime, caught...