Via email from Prem Panicker, I find that a mutual friend of ours, a man we both regard highly, has been sanctioned by the US for nuclear proliferation. Reuters reports:
The U.S. State Department said on Monday it had slapped sanctions on 13 individuals and three private companies because of their involvement in the nuclear-proliferation network associated with Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan.
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The sanctioned individuals and companies were listed by the State Department as:
Selim Alguadis, Kursad Zafer Cire, Muhammad Nasim ud Din, EKA Elektronik Kontrol Aletleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., ETI Elektroteknik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., Tradefin Engineering, Muhammad Farooq, Daniel Geiges, Paul Griffin, Peter Griffin, Abdul Qadeer Khan, Shamsul Bahrin bin Rukiban, Buhary Seyed Abu Tahir, Gotthard Lerch, Gerhard Wisser and Shah Hakim Shahnazim Zain.
The report elaborated that Mr Griffin was using the literary writing group, Caferati, as a front for his devious activities, and had started many group blogs for this purpose as well.
Ok, fine, I made that last line up—couldn’t resist it. Obviously this is a different Peter Griffin, not the one we love so much. But what fun it would be if it really was him. No?