Rogues' gallery.

The article reports on the legal status of suspected A. Q. Khan nuclear smuggling network members worldwide. They include Buhary Syed Abu Tahir, managing director of the Dubai-based SMB Group and was the alleged to be right-hand man of Abdul Qadeer Khan. Friedrich Tinner is a close friend of Khan and president of CETEC, a Swiss firm specializing in vacuum technology. Another is Gotthard Lerch, a German engineer alleged to have tried to obtain supplies of pipes in connection with the machine shop 'Project 1001' in Libya by sourcing from South Africa. Henk Slebos is a Dutch businessman who studied with Khan at Delft Technical University in the Netherlands and was responsible for procuring numerous items for the Khan network for more than two decades.