Asher Karni is a South African-Israeli businessman known for a nuclear-smuggling case. The 2005 opening said he was "accused of selling nuclear devices to Humayun Khan, a Pakistani man believed connected to a larger terrorist group in Jammu and Kashmir." Today the opening is a single vague sentence crediting him only with "financial involvement and support" for nuclear programs, though terror survives once in the body. A reader arriving now does not learn from the opening that Karni was accused of supplying nuclear components to a man tied to a terrorist group.
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The opening as it read in 2005
Asher Karni (b 1954 ) is a Hungarian -born Israeli citizen and South African businessman, accused by the United States of being part of a conspiracy to sell stolen nuclear materal. A judge ordered him released on 100,000US bail to Silver Spring , Maryland , having agreed to wave diplomatic immunity and wear an electronic surveillance device, but the US has moved to have that ruling overturned. Karni now sits in prison in Denver , Colorado . Karni is accused of selling nuclear devices to Humayun Khan , a Pakistani man believed connected to a larger terrorist group in Jammu and Kashmir . The black market nuclear market is believed to be very tightly knit, and to have been headed by Abdul Qadeer Khan , the father of the Pakistani nuclear program, who now sits accused by the IAEA and Pakistan having sold nuclear materal to Iran , and Korea for nearly two decades.1
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Asher Karni ( ; born 1954) is an Hungarian -born Israeli citizen and South African businessman.He is, perhaps, best known for his financial involvement and support for Pakistani and Israel's nuclear program.He is known to be collaborator and associate of dr.Khan and considered one of the prime suspect connected with the Khan Network .
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Asher Karni ( ; born 1954) is a Hungarian -born Israeli citizen and South African businessman.He is, perhaps, best known for his financial involvement and support for both the Pakistan and Israeli nuclear programs .A collaborator and associate of Abdul Qadeer Khan , he considered one of the prime suspects connected with the Khan Network.
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Asher Karni ( ; born 1954) is a South African and Israeli businessman known for his financial involvement and support for both the Pakistani and Israeli nuclear programs .Originally from Hungary , he is a collaborator and associate of Abdul Qadeer Khan , and considered one of the prime suspects connected with the Khan Network.
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Asher Karni ( ; born 1954) is a South African and Israeli businessman known for his financial involvement and support for both the Pakistani and Israeli nuclear programs .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Asher Karni ( Hebrew : אשר קרני ; born 1954) is a South African and Israeli businessman known for his financial involvement and support for both the Pakistani and Israeli nuclear programs .
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hungarian -born israeli citizen and south african businessman
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south african and israeli businessman known for his financial involvement and support for both the pakistani an
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