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Outcry as border guards seize British 'dirty bomb' lorry heading for Iran
Daily Mail ^ | July 22, 2006 | Jason Lewis

Posted on 07/24/2006 8:47:37 PM PDT by Bald Eagle777

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.

The lorry set off from Kent on its way to Tehran but was stopped by officials at a checkpoint on Bulgaria's northernborder with Romania after a scanner indicated radiation levels 200 times above normal.

The lorry was impounded and the Bulgarian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NPA) was called out.

On board they found ten lead-lined boxes addressed to the Iranian Ministry of Defence. Inside each box was a soil-testing device, containing highly dangerous quantities of radioactive caesium 137 and americium-beryllium.

The soil testers had been sent to Iran by a British firm with the apparent export approval of the Department of Trade and Industry.

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1,551 posted on 07/24/2006 9:15:48 PM PDT by Cindy
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1,552 posted on 07/24/2006 9:31:20 PM PDT by Cindy
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