Mr Chaudhry, witting or not, may be helping to create the conditions in which the men in uniform step in again one day.

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He was not the only one ever to tap scores of (witting or unwitting) suppliers in Europe, Africa and Asia through front companies, using middlemen and forged end-user certificates.

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Some are witting, some are unwitting.

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