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S.Africa arrests two on WMD charges(Abdul Qadeer Khan link)
Thu 9 September, 2004 10:58

By Ed Stoddard

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police say two suspects have been arrested in a probe into violations of laws related to weapons of mass destruction (WMD), just one day after charges were dropped against another suspect.


Prosecutors dropped charges on Wednesday against a local businessman. Engineer Johan Andries Muller Meyer, 53, was arrested last week under laws outlawing nuclear proliferation.


South Africa's Council for the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Destruction said on Tuesday it had seized 11 shipping containers of uranium enrichment material from Meyer's factory in Vanderbijlpark, 60 km (35 miles) southwest of Johannesburg.

Crucially, the council said the material it seized did not constitute weapons of mass destruction, although it could be used in the process to enrich uranium.

After Meyer's arrest, the United States said the case was linked to an international nuclear black market established in the 1980s by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear programme -- a charge dismissed by his lawyer.

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