Asher Karni: what Wikipedia removed
Asher Karni is a South African-Israeli businessman known for a nuclear-smuggling case. The 2005 opening said he was “accused of selling nuclear devices to Humayun Khan, a Pakistani man believed connected to a larger terrorist group in Jammu and Kashmir.” Today the opening is a single vague sentence crediting him only with “financial involvement and support” for nuclear programs, though terror survives once in the body. A reader arriving now does not learn from the opening that Karni was accused of supplying nuclear components to a man tied to a terrorist group.
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The specific accusation that Karni sold nuclear trigger devices to a man tied to a terrorist group in Jammu and Kashmir was dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 16299947):
Asher Karni (b 1954 ) is a Hungarian -born Israeli citizen and South African businessman, accused by the United States of being part of a conspiracy to sell stolen nuclear materal. A judge ordered him released on 100,000US bail to Silver Spring , Maryland , having agreed to wave diplomatic immunity and wear an electronic surveillance device, but the US has moved to have that ruling overturned. Karni now sits in prison in Denver , Colorado . Karni is accused of selling nuclear devices to Humayun Khan , a Pakistani man believed connected to a larger terrorist group in Jammu and Kashmir . The black market nuclear market is believed to be very tightly knit, and to have been headed by Abdul Qadee…
2025 (revision 1294843771):
Asher Karni ( Hebrew : אשר קרני ; born 1954) is a South African and Israeli businessman known for his financial involvement and support for both the Pakistani and Israeli nuclear programs .
Related
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