[japaneseghost]

Wrapped in newspaper? They must be omitting that it was first wrapped in several steel containers.

[Semper Paratus]

"PSST- Hey Meester, you want some pretty plutonium I got, reel cheep.
I'll throw in my seester for nawthing.

[RightWhale]

The suspects had offered the uranium, wrapped in newspaper, to the officers for $750,000

About $5 million would get enough weapons-grade U to make one device. Be sure to throw it all into your knapsack for easy transport.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Weapons grade uranium wrapped in newspaper? BTW, the article never actually SAYS that what they were selling was actually uranium.

[Sabertooth]

The suspects had offered the uranium, wrapped in newspaper, to the officers for $750,000, Anatolian said.

Now these are clever terrorists...

Wrapping a highly radioactive material in the lead story.

[Dog Gone]

This is both encouraging and really bad news all at the same time.

Thank goodness Turkey is on our side.

[Paradox]

Look like a freeper got this right earlier (Even though that particular freeper is something of a malcontent troll, "milosivec2"?).

This is frightening..

[Rebelbase]

Well, this exonerates Milosevic2, who made a claim this morning about someone trying to obtain 1 kilo of Uranium in Turkey. He provided no link and was flamed royally as a disruptor.

Milo, if you remember which thread that was, go back and ping those flamers to this post with a "told you so" tag.

[a_Turk]

Let's hope all terrorists and smugglers meet in Turkey to conduct business..

How many here think that this goes on in other countries too but avoiding detection?

[nothingnew]

got sent here by moderator...doesn't even connect with what was goin on...im confused...

FMCDH

[a_Turk]

Turkey's state nuclear research authority is now in possession of the material, the agency said.

How to get the stuff for free when none of the countries that have it would sell it to you 'coz they're so chikin :D

nyuk nyuk nyuk.

[Pericles]

Rebelbase said: I don't know the specifics, but a kilo of this stuff would, in my best judgement, make a dandy little "dirty bomb".

Speaking of Turkey, if Turkey controls the police and has 35,000 troops on the northern occupied Cyprus how did this happen as revealed in the February 2001 East Africa bombing trial testimony of Jamal al Fadl -- an al Qaeda operative in charge of weapons development in Sudan -- uranium used in "dirty bombs" that release lethal radioactive material, had been tested in 1994 by members of the Sudan-based Islamic National Front in the town of Hilat Koko, in Turkish-held northern Cyprus.

Is Turkish Occupied Northern Cyprus a hot spot for Sudanese tourisim? How did these terrorists gain access to Northern Cyprus?

Dog Gone said: This is both encouraging and really bad news all at the same time. Thank goodness Turkey is on our side.

Which Turks? Whose side?

Bin Laden In Turkey Twice