Posted on 11/06/2001 9:28:51 AM PST by kattracks
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Paramilitary police arrested two Turks on Tuesday after they attempted to sell weapons-grade uranium to undercover officers, police said.
The suspects had agreed to sell the officers 2.56 pounds of uranium of a quality which could be used to develop a nuclear weapon, the police official told Reuters. The arrests came the same day President Bush warned East European leaders that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network could be seeking nuclear weapons to step up its fight against the United States. Bush said bin Laden's agents were active in at least 60 countries. The president named bin Laden as prime suspect behind the hijacked airliner attacks on New York and Washington which killed nearly 5,000 people. Turkey's state-run Anatolian news agency reported the men had bought the weapons-grade uranium earlier this year from an unidentified source, who had brought the uranium from an East European country into Turkey. The suspects had offered the uranium, wrapped in newspaper, to the officers for $750,000, Anatolian said. Turkey's state nuclear research authority is now in possession of the material, the agency said. Copyright © 2001 Reuters Limited.
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It depends on the design of the weapon. The simplest types take much more, than the sophisticated types. It also depends on the purity of the weapons grade material. That means the ratio between U235 and U238. U235 is the radioactive portion, and U238 is known as depleted Uranium. Enriching the material, by increasing the ratio of U235 to U238, is a very difficult process, reqiring the gasification, and separation of the two isotopes.
Turkey's state nuclear research authority is now in possession of the material, the agency said.How to get the stuff for free when none of the countries that have it would sell it to you 'coz they're so chikin :D
It goes on all the time in Turkish held northern Cyprus without word one being reported.
Paging Mr. Pericles. Paging Mr. Pericles.
Speaking of Turkey, if Turkey controls the police and has 35,000 troops on the northern occupied Cyprus how did this happen as revealed in the February 2001 East Africa bombing trial testimony of Jamal al Fadl -- an al Qaeda operative in charge of weapons development in Sudan -- uranium used in "dirty bombs" that release lethal radioactive material, had been tested in 1994 by members of the Sudan-based Islamic National Front in the town of Hilat Koko, in Turkish-held northern Cyprus.
Is Turkish Occupied Northern Cyprus a hot spot for Sudanese tourisim? How did these terrorists gain access to Northern Cyprus?
Dog Gone said: This is both encouraging and really bad news all at the same time. Thank goodness Turkey is on our side.
Which Turks? Whose side?
Which Turks? Whose side?Good question. So horizontal.
Furthermore, as revealed in the February 2001 East Africa bombing trial testimony of Jamal al Fadl -- an al Qaeda operative in charge of weapons development in Sudan -- uranium used in "dirty bombs" that release lethal radioactive material, had been tested in 1994 by members of the Sudan-based Islamic National Front in the town of Hilat Koko, in Turkish-held northern Cyprus.Jamal? Yeah Jamal. You can trust what he says.. He was they guy with a book deal wasn't he? I'm buyin it.. Sure I am. Al Qaeda operatives involved in WTC stay mum, but those in charge of weapons development sing like kanaries. Unbelievable. That would have been HUGE news if true. I don't believe it.
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