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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-04 11:00 AM
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Kyrgyzstan 'foils plutonium plot'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3695588.stm

The national security service in the remote mountainous republic says it arrested two Kyrgyz citizens and confiscated 60 small containers containing plutonium-239.

There is no information on exactly what quantity of plutonium was in the containers.

Kyrgyz security agents tracked the men who were attempting to sell the plutonium and arrested them while posing as buyers.
...
Earlier this year, another man was arrested in Kyrgyzstan attempting to sell a quantity of caesium-137, another highly radioactive substance.

How reliable government claims are, I don't know ...
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-04 05:01 PM
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1. Eh. Plutonium is much more useful for making bombs.
(Than caesium, that is.)
One of the most toxic substances known, too.
You gotta wonder where they got it, if they had it ...
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 09:44 AM
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2. kick
Yahoo link:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&e=1&u=/nm/kyrgyzstan_plutonium_dc
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snowFLAKE Donating Member (247 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 10:06 AM
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3. Wonder if they used Tin Foil to Foil this plot?
:tinfoilhat:
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