Posted on 05/17/2010 9:57:14 AM PDT by mojito
A BRITISH chemicals firm is involved in a secret MI5 inquiry into the illegal export to Iran of material that could make a radioactive “dirty bomb”.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) raided the Essex home of the firm’s former sales manager after a tip that potentially lethal chemicals, including cobalt, were sold to Iran last summer.
The trade went ahead despite warnings from Whitehall officials that it posed an “unacceptable risk of diversion to a weapons of mass destruction programme of concern”.
Details of the dirty bomb case are disclosed in dozens of pages of documents lodged in the High Court by Remet UK, a chemicals firm based in Rochester, Kent.
At the centre of the probe is Jarrad Beddow, a 42-year-old married father of two, from Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.
Beddow, who lives with his wife Jennifer at a £400,000 detached home in a quiet cul-de-sac, last week denied any wrongdoing, saying that the material he is accused of exporting to Iran — cobalt aluminate — was not banned at the time of the transaction.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
How dare the Brits even think such things, those hate-filled racists.
I am sure the apology’s already in the mail...
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