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Indian pleads not guilty to selling military secrets

New York, Nov 10 (IANS) An India-born engineer in Maui, Hawaii, who worked on the development of the B-2 stealth bomber in the US, has pleaded not guilty to selling sensitive military secrets to China.


Noshir Gowadia, 62, a naturalised American citizen, had been charged with selling technology that would have allowed China to build a stealth cruise missile.



Gowadia denied all the charges leveled against him.



The grand jury upgraded an earlier indictment against Gowadia, originally charged with selling information involving the B-2 aircraft. He now additionally faces charges of assisting China with designing and testing an exhaust system nozzle that protects a cruise missile from detection, according to the Hawaiian channel KITV4.



The prosecution has established that Gowadia made six trips to China to discuss, design and test the stealth cruise missile, along with secret e-mails with a representative of China's Foreign Experts Bureau.



He has also been charged with possessing classified military information and money laundering.



Gowadia may face the death penalty or possibility of life in prison and a fine of $250,000. The trial is set for July next year.



Gowadia had worked 18 years for Northrop Corp, where he was an engineer and designed the B-2 stealth bomber's propulsion system. In November 2005, he was charged with three counts of sharing secret military information.



The B-2 is a multi-role stealth aircraft able to drop conventional and nuclear weapons. It was a milestone in the US' bomber modernisation programme.



It is the most expensive plane ever built. Its stealth technology is intended to help the craft penetrate defences previously impenetrable by combat aircraft.


http://in.news.yahoo.com/061110/43/699my.html



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-- Edited by the_380 at 22:05, 2006-11-20

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the_380 wrote:

Seems another Indian in the black target of these whites


Dude, get off the racial angle, ok?


In the U.S., Indians are held in high esteem, with hardly any racial ill-will.


Let the judicial process proceed, and find out if he really is guilty of this serious crime.


But please, this case has no racial angle to it, so don't insert it here.



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True. Why should everything come down to race?

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Aye aye sir...got it off...

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