http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20100710085544493C308461
“Four bust in ‘dirty bomb’ sale sting”
July 10 2010 at 10:44AM
SNIPPET: “A policeman said the source of the Caesium-137 was unknown and investigators were going all out to locate the larger device. “We don’t know what these suspects’ intentions were and we need to find the device quickly,” he said.
Nuclear Energy Corporation of SA spokeswoman, Chantal Janneker, confirmed the material was Caesium-137, and said there had been no contamination in the area.
Hawks spokesman, Colonel Musa Zondi, said the four were arrested as they tried to sell the stolen material which was a sample of a device which was to be sold for R45 million.”
Stories like this always beg the question - “They stopped this one, but how many similar have gone undetected?”
The Good Guys have to be perfect *every* time, while the Evildoers only have to get lucky once or twice....
Probably thought they were selling to muzzies who would somehow make a dirty bomb and sneak it into the USA thru Mexico.
Its good they caught them but its not like they will make any sort of device out of a Cesium source IMO.