Posted on 12/18/2006 12:40:12 PM PST by joan
Skadar, 16:34
FBI agents in cooperation with Albanian authorities are investigating eventual smuggling of radioactive material deemed to have been planned for using in terrorist attacks across Europe.
Citing sources from the Prosecution Office, the Albanian media reported there are grounds for suspicions that 170 kilograms of radioactive material was brought in the country.
According to the same sources, the illegal shipment was planned to serve for the purposes of carrying out terrorist attacks in Western Europe.
FBI agents have taken in five suspects, including three Albanian police officers and two residents of Skadar. After questioning, they have been released .
18.12.2006 10:54 PODGORICA, (Tanjug) - The Podgorica-based daily Dan quoted on Monday an information from Tirana, according to which the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Albanian Special Prosecution have issued a search warrant against a group of terrorists who transport dangerous radioactive material into that country, which can be used to build mass-murder weapons.
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It would be helpful to know exactly what material is involved. Is it fissile? An alpha, beta or gamma emitter? What is the activity?
This drives detection strategies and protective actions.
I would wager Polonium 210.
Couldn't be anywhere near that amount of Polonium 210 (170 kilograms).
Albania, where just about everything is a criminal enterprise.
The Albanian Muslim Mafia, good friends and colleagues of bill clinton. No doubt hillary will be back into business with them if she manages to get elected. Five percent of the drug smuggling profits, and all that.
Somebody remind me why, after six years in office, President Bush hasn't done a damned thing to reverse the damage clinton caused in Yugoslavia? Hasn't even admitted that somebody might have made a mistake?
Bump!
perhaps being committed to the war on terror and fighting off rabid dems that would have him fail has something to do with that- Our military is streatched all over hte world helping out in an astonishingly large number of countries as best we can http://sacredscoop.com
I'm not knocking everything that President Bush has done. But it's inconceivable that he has made so little effort to broom out the federal bureaucracy. If the Democrats get back in power, you can be sure they won't hesitate.
Bush himself has suffered because he has left traitors in the CIA and the FBI. They continually leak to the press and do everything they can to damage the Republicans. George Tenet did more damage to Bush over Iraq than Pinch Sulzberger.
yeah i can agree with that- He really shoulda cleaned house without mercy
I used to be much worse in Albania before they ran off the worst of the criminals...
...who crossed the border into Kosovo and got NATO to be their Air Force to help them try to steal the land from its rightful owners.
How much? Whatever amount, I'm in.
It's a given that since the borders are porous, and the routes have been used for decades, it only makes sense. You could smuggle an elephant from Russia to Italy....:)) Bribery also works very well...for both K-Albanians, Macedonians and Internationals......
Somewhere around, what, 4,500 curies/gram? No container could hold that much Po, it would melt down.
Worldwide production of Po210 is about 100 grams per year.
Very hot stuff indeed.
My bet is it is some low-grade processed uranium ore, yellowcake or something similar.
That sounds about right.
My money is on low grade medical waste or cobalt rods.
Yawn....
jas3
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