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WASHINGTON - The number of experts who believe that terrorists could obtain the apparatus for a nuclear bomb is impressive and growing.
The Sept. 11 Commission described in 2004 the relative ease with which terrorists could conceal the needed weapons-grade plutonium or highly enriched uranium, which it said would be ``about the size of a grapefruit or an orange.'' Since 2001, law enforcement officials have developed training exercises on how terrorists might smuggle eight components for an improvised 10-kiloton bomb into the United States and then detonate it near the White House.
Experts in and out of the government worry that the most likely source of nuclear material is Russia and the former Soviet bloc nations, where stocks of weapons-grade plutonium and uranium are stored at loosely guarded sites.
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Five "terrorists" detained crossing into Pakistan from Iran
Saturday March 3, 2007
Islamabad- Pakistani authorities on Saturday detained five foreign nationals attempting to enter the country from Iran with the intent of carrying out terrorist attacks, the Online news agency reported.
Border police said they arrested one Turk, two Afghans and two Russians in the Taftan area and seized sensitive documents. Both countries have intensified security along their border in the wake of illegal movement of people and kidnapping of security personnel.
Iran is in the process of fortifying stretches of the frontier with a ten-foot wall.
http://rawstory.com/news/dpa/Five_terrorists_detained_crossing_i_03032007.html
Mass arrests in Iran over security fears (Iran)
March 4, 2007
Tehran: More than 32 women and several Iranian journalists were arrested on Sunday for "endangering national security", the state media reported. The women were protesting outside a courthouse in Tehran to demand a fair trial for five women arrested last June. The five women on trial had met to demand equal rights for women. They were charged with endangering national security, propaganda against the state and taking part in an illegal gathering.
The Iranian journalists were arrested for charges including "acting against national security foreign backing", Iran’s official news agency IRNA reported. "They were spreading reports to create divisions among Iran's ethnic groups. They were getting significant amounts of dollars from abroad," IRNA quoted a ministry statement as saying.
IRNA’s report did not name the journalists or cite any other countries. The arrests came as Iranian and Saudi leaders meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss the security situation in Iraq and Lebanon, and to prevent Iran from sliding further into isolation.