GABORONE - A man is helping the police with investigations concerning the stealing of 16 drums containing radioactive waste, says the Minister of Communications, Science and Technology, Mrs Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi.
She explained that on October 10 last year, Poseidon Geophysics, a company contracted by CIC Energy, reported to the Department of Radiation Protection that 16 drums containing soil contaminated with Cesium -137 were stolen at the Mmamabula Coal Mine area. She added that the contaminated soil was dumped at the site. Minister Venson-Moitoi, who was answering a question in Parliament, went on to say that on January 15, the company reported that 15 drums had been found, but that one drum is still missing and efforts are still ongoing to locate it.
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Bulgarian Villages had Celebrated September 11 Attacks
17.03.2009
There had been celebrations of the September 11 terrorist attacks in some villages in the Bulgarian Rodopi mountain, MP Yane Yanev revealed late Monday, quoted by novinite.com. Yanev made this stunning revelation as he explained that at least 15 municipalities in the Rodopi mountain region are attempting to convert their citizens to radical Islam, through school teaching and other methods.
Earlier Monday it was announced that Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security had arrested the Mayor town of Garmen, Ahmed Bashev and a teacher of religion Murad Bushnak, over the promotion of radical Islamism, after a warning from Yanev. It was expected that the two will be charged for crimes against national and racial equality as well as against religious teachings. Days earlier Yane Yanev had accused Ahmed Bashev of spreading radical Islam in Bulgaria via funds by an Arabian foundation. In the village of Ribnovo a school director had forced all the teachers and students to wear non-secular clothes.
The Rodopi mountains are home to most of Bulgaria's Muslim minorities - including the Muslim Bulgarians, locally called Pomaks, that predominate in the western parts and a large concentration of Bulgarian Turks, particularly in the Eastern Rodopi. There had been longtime suspicions that ministers from Middle East countries had been spreading teachings of radical Islam in the region. Many of the locals find these teachings foreign and hostile, but the region's remote location may have let them root just out of the central administration's watch.
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