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.
It should have been huge news, but you have to ask yourself--why was it not widely reported?Coz he's not credible? He's just a means to an end for the US. One game justifies another. Still don't buy it. That place should be visible on radar on its own. Where are the supporting array of facts?
although...these guys may be glowing...
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