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<p>WASHINGTON — Within the last 2 months a U.S. government sensor detected an unauthorized shipment of radioactive material crossing from the Canadian border into the Detroit area, Fox News has learned.</p> <p>Radioactive material is key ingredient in a so-called "dirty bomb," a conventional explosive that when detonated contaminates an area with radioactivity.</p>

Target America: the simple device for causing an explosion of panic By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 11 June 2002 This is the startlingly simple recipe for detonating a "dirty bomb" in the United States: take a small quantity, not necessarily more than a teacup, of a radioactive isotope such as caesium-137 or strontium-90. Both are used for cancer treatments in hospitals and are relatively easy to get hold of. Pack it into a conventional explosive – anything from a small nail bomb to the fertiliser-based device that devastated the Oklahoma City federal building seven years ago. Even more simply,...

A national cable TV news flash yesterday about the arrest of possible terrorists on Whidbey Island sounded explosive: The FBI and other federal agents were investigating two Middle Eastern men who were arrested in Oak Harbor last Tuesday after police found traces of TNT and plastic explosive in a rental truck they were driving, the Fox News Channel reported. The fact that Oak Harbor is near Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, home of the electronic warfare Prowler jets, heightened concerns. But the FBI said last night it had taken a pass on the case, handing it over to immigration officials...

PRESS RELEASE April 8, 2002 Contact: Marsha Richards, Communications Director (360) 956-3482 Latest finding of guilt panics teachers’ union Union launches major "anti-EFF blitz" day before enforcement hearing OLYMPIA — One day before the state’s Public Disclosure Commission is expected to announce that the National Education Association has illegally used teachers’ money to influence Washington state elections, officials of the Washington Education Association have launched a massive $90,000 negative attack campaign against the Evergreen Freedom Foundation. The WEA’s ads, running on radio stations and in newspapers around the state, personally attack and slander Bob Williams, EFF’s president and a former...