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A Norwegian citizen of Somali background has been arrested in Britain and is now in a jail outside London. He is charged with allegedly having supplied radioactive materials to be used for terrorism. The 52-year-old man who became a Norwegian citizen in 1997, was arrested in London in September, after he according to the charges had supplied a kilo of the radioactive material red mercury, the newspaper VG writes. Red mercury is supposedly an ingridient in so-called "dirty bombs". The jailed Somali/Norwegian has together with two other men been charged with conspiring to buy the red mercury with the aim...

KIEV, Ukraine - Ukrainian security officers have arrested two Middle Eastern men whom they said possessed a substance that has been touted by sellers as an ingredient in nuclear weapons and dismissed by others as a hoax. Security agents in the southern city of Odessa seized 24 pounds of a substance they said was radioactive and identified as "red mercury," a State Security Service spokesman said Monday on condition of anonymity. He said they arrested two men from a Middle Eastern country, "Foreign citizens were looking for an opportunity to purchase a quantity of radioactive material in Ukraine and to...

fair use applies... "The Balance of Terror and the Red Mercury Nightmare" On Thursday, March 21, WorldNetDaily posted an article from STRATFOR, a well-connected private intelligence firm. The title of the article was "Crisis looming between U.S., Russia." STRATFOR's article deals with CIA Director George Tenet's March 19 testimony before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee. According to Tenet, Russia is hardly a reliable partner in the "war against terror." Instead, Russia is "the first choice of proliferant states seeking the most advanced technology and training," said Tenet. What the CIA director could not say, and perhaps what makes President...