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Uranium Missing from NJ Lab (4/19/05)

TEANECK, NJ-April 19, 2005 — Experts say it's not enough to make a dirty bomb or harm anyone.

But the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is investigating why a small amount of enriched uranium powder is missing from a Teaneck laboratory.

LeDoux and Company reported little more than three grams of powdered uranium and aluminum missing last Wednesday. NRC investigators believe the powder was thrown in the trash and is probably in a landfill in Pennsylvania or New York.

NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan says while the missing powder does not pose a threat, it is still important to make sure such material is tracked properly. Sheehan says the NRC hasn't ruled out the possibility of some kind of fine or enforcement action.

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Girl Dies from Flesh–Eating Bacteria (NY - 4/19/05)

NEW YORK (AP) - April 19, 2005 — A 10-year-old Bronx girl has died from flesh-eating bacteria, a rare and invasive form of the same bug that causes strep throat and scarlet fever.

Nathera Masoud had never suffered any serious health problems before contracting necrotizing fasciitis, an infection caused Group A streptococcus bacteria, the Daily News reported Tuesday. She died Friday......

Nathera first started feeling ill around April 2 when she complained of a sharp pain near her armpit, her mother said. Her condition worsened, and tests at Montefiore Medical Center on April 12 confirmed that her tissues were under attack from the bacteria. Three days later she was dead.

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http://nyjtimes.com/cover/04-19-05/ManArrestedForMovingMillionsIntoMidEast.htm

"Virginia Man Arrested on Charges of Illegally Moving Millions of Dollars to Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WASHINGTON, D.C. (ICE) – Paul J. McNulty, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Allan J. Doody, Special Agent-in-Charge for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Washington, D.C., and Charles Pine, Special Agent-in-Charge for Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations Division (IRS-CID), announced the arrest of a Virginia man, Rahim A. Bariek, charged with operating an illegal money transmittal business that wired millions of dollars to overseas locations, including Iran, Pakistan, and areas in Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban between 2001 and 2002.

On April 12, 2005, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia indicted Bariek, the owner/operator of Bariek Money Transfer, for operating an illegal money transmittal business.

Last night, ICE agents arrested Bariek, a naturalized United States citizen from Afghanistan and a resident of Herndon, Virginia, pursuant to the indictment. Bariek is scheduled to mad his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge T. Rawls Jones in the Eastern District of Virginia. A court appearance will be scheduled for sometime next week. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of five years incarceration."