Between Hezbollah/Syria, Serbia, and now Hugo, there’s an awful lot of troops hanging out on borders these days....
Venezuela, Ecuador sends troops to Colombian border
reuters ^ | 3/2/08 | various
Posted on 03/02/2008 10:25:05 PM CST by BurbankKarl
Venezuela and Ecuador sent troops to their borders with Colombia on Sunday after their Andean neighbor bombed Colombian rebels inside Ecuador in an attack Caracas said could spark a war.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez also deployed tanks to the frontier, mobilized warplanes and withdrew his diplomats from Bogota in the worst dispute in the unstable region for years.
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, a close ally of the leftist, anti-U.S. Chavez, expelled Colombia’s ambassador and recalled his own envoy from Bogota in protest over what he said was an intentional violation of his nation’s sovereignty.
Colombia responded to Correa by offering its apologies for the troops crossing the frontier, but said the operation on a jungle rebel camp was necessary because its forces came under fire from inside Ecuador.
But Colombia, a U.S. ally, also said it found documents at the camp that linked Correa to the guerrillas.
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If the ratio of interdicted smuggled fissile materials to successfully smuggled fissile materials is anywhere near analagous to the narcotics smuggling trade, there’s an awfull lot of the stuff going somewhere - and getting there....
Uranium seized at Indo-Nepal border
Indo-Asian News Service ^ | February 19, 2008 | staff
Posted on 03/02/2008 11:24:41 PM CST by gandalftb
The police on February 18 seized four kg of low-grade uranium and arrested six persons in Supaul district along the Indo-Nepal border.
A police official on February 19 said acting on an intelligence tip-off, four kg of low-grade uranium was seized near Virpur bus stand in Supaul late on February 18 night.
The estimated value of the seized uranium is about Rs.50 million in the international market.
The police said the operation was conducted with the assistance of Seema Suraksha Bal (SSB) personnel. Six persons, including a schoolteacher and a SSB jawan posted in Assam, were arrested.
The police suspect that the seized uranium was being smuggled from Meghalaya to Nepal.
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