Posted on 01/16/2023 8:14:06 AM PST by BenLurkin
Police in the United Kingdom arrested a man on terrorism charges Saturday after trace amounts of uranium were discovered in a cargo package at Heathrow Airport in London two weeks ago.
The suspect, a man in his 60s whose identity has not been released, was arrested at a home in northwestern England. He was booked at a police station and released on bail today.
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“I want to be clear that despite making this arrest, and based on what we currently know, this incident still does not appear to be linked to any direct threat to the public.”
The UK’s Border Force originally detected a “very small amount of uranium” in a cargo package containing scrap metal during a routine screening at Heathrow Airport on Dec. 29.
The package arrived at Heathrow Airport on a passenger flight from Oman, The Guardian reports. It was bound for an “Iranian business with premises in the UK,” according to the British newspaper.
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Probably a Ukie refugee….I hear there are 12 million of them…
No disrespect intended, didn’t mean to imply any official involvement. Oman is probably a big shipping hub around the Gulf and Middle East in general. I bet a lot of shady things pass through there unnoticed.
This might even have been a bad-guy test to find out how sensitive everyone’s radiation detectors were.
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