WikiLeaks: Yemen nuclear material was unsecured

[IScreamSundays]

Source: AP

WikiLeaks: Yemen nuclear material was unsecured

(AP) – 54 minutes ago

CAIRO (AP) — A storage facility housing Yemen's radioactive material was unsecured for up to a week after its lone guard was removed and its surveillance camera was broken, a secret U.S. State Department cable released by WikiLeaks revealed Monday.

The message, dated Jan. 9, relates the worries of a Yemeni official, whose name was removed, about the unguarded state of a National Atomic Energy Commission facility. He pushes the U.S. embassy to urge his own government to secure the material.

"Very little now stands between the bad guys and Yemen's nuclear material," the official is quoted as saying in the cable, which appeared on the website of the British Guardian newspaper.

Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, hosts a particularly active branch of Al-Qaida that has not only repeatedly attacked the Yemeni government but attempted several attacks against the U.S. including last year's failed plot to blow up an airliner in Detroit on Christmas.

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[crikkett]

1. Look how the underwear bomber was fit neatly into the story

It's as if they threw in a fnord just in case there wasn't enough to fear in the actual cable.

[truthisfreedom]

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[bemildred]

2. Heck, I didn't even know Yemen had nuclear material. nt

[Pavulon]

4. I wonder who else was in that boat. Cause we all know now..(nt)

[bemildred]

5. Agree totally on that one.

Although Yemen having "nuclear material" freaks me out all by itself. I suppose it could be medical isotopes and such. OTOH maybe the dipshits will guard it better now, or someone else will take a hand. Security through obscurity is not good enough for "nuclear material".

[Arctic Dave]

3. Could they pump up the scare on this any more.

Hospital and oilfield "nuclear material"? Really.