Alone, elderly guard sits at the entrance to the Scomi Precision Engineering plant, a drab single-story building in the middle of a tree-lined industrial park in Kuala Lumpur. The plant, supposedly a supplier to Libya's nuclear-weapons program, is still up and running, contrary to CIA Director George Tenet's recent assertion that Malaysian authorities had shuttered it. In fact, Scomi officials are only too happy to take you around, saying they have nothing to hide. But this is not your run-of-the-mill factory tour. Rather than proudly displaying their wares, the executives are mostly interested in parading their ignorance. Mainly they say they have no idea what they're manufacturing. Rohaida Ali Badaruddin, the PR director, grabs a domino-size metal part from a table covered with "product samples." "Something like this-no one in the world could know what this is for!" she says. Factory manager Lokman Omar picks up a black cylinder while Rohaida, who wears a headscarf and funky glasses, giggles. "I don't know what it is! "she says.
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