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Outcry as border guards seize British 'dirty bomb' lorry heading for Iran
Daily Mail U.K. ^
| 22:00pm 22nd July 2006
| By JASON LEWIS,
Posted on 07/22/2006 4:35:05 PM PDT by BlueJ7
Border guards seized a British lorry on its way to make a delivery to the Iranian military - after discovering it was packed with radioactive material that could be used to build a dirty bomb.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 200508; 200607; bulgaria; dirtybomb; iran; kent; muhammadsminions; proliferation; uk; zirconium
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posted on
07/22/2006 4:35:06 PM PDT
by
BlueJ7
To: BlueJ7
Looks as if the Bulgarians are really on their toes!
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posted on
07/22/2006 4:38:18 PM PDT
by
SubMareener
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To: All
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posted on
07/22/2006 4:40:25 PM PDT
by
Cindy
To: BlueJ7
Wonder how many trucks has gotten through before now.
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posted on
07/22/2006 4:41:40 PM PDT
by
oyez
(The way to punish a providence is to allow it to be governed by philosophers. --Frederick the Great)
To: SubMareener
"Americium-beryllium is an extremely effective element for the construction of a dirty bomb as it has a very long half-life, " Journalist Science Flunkout TWIT.
That's a %^&(*)(_ NEUTRON SOURCE_. It has nothing to do with its smoke-detector halflife.
It's much worse than that. Fast neutrons can kick plentiful and cheap Th232 to yield lots of nasty isotopes, for just one example.
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posted on
07/22/2006 4:46:11 PM PDT
by
Gorzaloon
To: oyez
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posted on
07/22/2006 4:47:09 PM PDT
by
Quark606
To: BlueJ7
In August last year there was a similar incident when a Turkish truck carrying a ton of zirconium silicate supplied by a British firm was stopped by Bulgarian customs at the Turkish border on its way to Tehran, after travelling from Britain, through Germany and Romania, without being stopped. Zirconium is used in nuclear reactors to stop fuel rods corroding and can also be used as part of a nuclear warhead. The metal can be extracted from zirconium silicate and its trade is usually tightly controlled.
WTF?!
To: BlueJ7
Hmmm.. Is this a strange story or what? the Brits didn't seem to be to forthcoming about which "British company: (hello murdering jihadist front company. The story has a certain " what me worry?" flavor.
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posted on
07/22/2006 4:55:22 PM PDT
by
hatfieldmccoy
(Satan has a new name and it is Islam)
To: BlueJ7; AdmSmith
"Last night a DTI spokesman confirmed: "Exporters do not need a licence to transport this sort of material to Iran. It is not covered by our export controls."
Oh good
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posted on
07/22/2006 4:57:26 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: BlueJ7
Hoooeeeey. My husband works with those soil-testers here in the US. He said they are highly controlled here.
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posted on
07/22/2006 4:59:08 PM PDT
by
bboop
(Stealth Tutor)
To: BlueJ7
A "Lorrey"
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posted on
07/22/2006 5:09:55 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: BlueJ7
I hope they were not profiling. Sarcasm off.
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posted on
07/22/2006 5:29:34 PM PDT
by
satchmodog9
(Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
To: BlueJ7
This may be a dumb question... why would Britain be way over there to get something to Iran?
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posted on
07/22/2006 5:59:58 PM PDT
by
AliVeritas
("One for all , all for kicking *ss and taking names" ...Scratch taking names. Vlad fatwa)
To: BlueJ7
These deals are never done via an officially direct approach from the receiving government/client. There is alwatys at least one or two middlemen/trading companies in the country of origin between the OEM and the foriegn buyer. So my guess is the "U.K" company that sold the goods was first approached by a "U.K" company representing the potential buyer.
One should look into just who are the investors in the companies in the U.K. that were involved - the company that sold the devices and the trading company that brokered the deal to the Iranian government.
Great Britain has become the dominant country for Middle East financiers and investors in Europe and Iran is the sixth largest export client for Britain.
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posted on
07/22/2006 6:01:06 PM PDT
by
Wuli
To: AliVeritas
Well..as we all know..there are LOTS of terrorists in the UK..home-grown and otherwise. I didn't see the NAME of the "British company"..but it could certainly be a ghost company...it's a pretty alarming story I think.
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posted on
07/22/2006 6:09:13 PM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet-pray for Israel))
To: SE Mom
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posted on
07/22/2006 6:21:37 PM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet-pray for Israel))
To: Cindy
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posted on
07/22/2006 6:23:45 PM PDT
by
shield
(A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc. 10:2)
To: shield
Thanks.
It's interesting.
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posted on
07/22/2006 6:31:30 PM PDT
by
Cindy
To: Wuli
These deals are never done via an officially direct approach from the receiving government/client. There is alwatys at least one or two middlemen/trading companies in the country of origin between the OEM and the foriegn buyer. So my guess is the "U.K" company that sold the goods was first approached by a "U.K" company representing the potential buyer.And the way this is stopped is when the people who are the middle-men begin to disappear, or have certain "accidents."
Mark
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posted on
07/22/2006 7:16:25 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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