Posted on 10/07/2015 8:23:34 AM PDT by nuconvert
Gangs with suspected Russian ties sought to sell radioactive material through Moldova to buyers from the Middle East, including the Islamic State group.
CHISINAU, Moldova — In the backwaters of Eastern Europe, authorities working with the FBI have interrupted four attempts in the past five years by gangs with suspected Russian connections that sought to sell radioactive material to Middle Eastern extremists, The Associated Press has learned. The latest known case came in February this year, when a smuggler offered a huge cache of deadly cesium — enough to contaminate several city blocks — and specifically sought a buyer from the Islamic State group.
Criminal organizations, some with ties to the Russian KGB’s successor agency, are driving a thriving black market in nuclear materials in the tiny and impoverished Eastern European country of Moldova, investigators say. The successful busts, however, were undercut by striking shortcomings: Kingpins got away, and those arrested evaded long prison sentences, sometimes quickly returning to nuclear smuggling, AP found.
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So now, immediately after Russia starts fighting ISIS directly, we are asked to believe that Russia is selling nuclear material to ISIS.
I’m calling BS on this, just more disinfo from Langley. Really sloppy disinfo at that.
This isn’t new.
“From the first known Moldovan case in 2010 to the most recent one in February...”
There have been articles about it here in the past. It’s a fact that Russia hasn’t kept track of their nuclear material very well over the years and there’s a lot missing.
You don’t think there’s a black market?
And btw - Russia hasn’t started fighting ISIS yet.
That's OK, neither have we! rimshot!
Scary stuff regardless. Scary if real and scary also if a planted story.
We are sleep walking into another world war over who controls the sand that friggin Arab camel merchants lay a rug on.
Yes, and more to the point, the Iranian nuke has been brought to us by the ever-helpful NeoSoviet Union.
The fag boy in the white hut probably ordered it, so they complied, but only enough to fill the square.
The USSR used radioisotope systems to power and heat remote sometimes unmanned locations, like radio relay stations, some remote agricultural facilities and even lighthouses in the North Pole. Strontium 90 will cook it self off at around 700 degrees for twenty or thirty years and you can use that to generate electricity with a steam engine. (The alternative being to build an air strip and fly in diesel endlessly.).
Many years ago I remember seeing a documentary about these reactors being discarded carelessly in scrap yards or just being bulldozed burried/forgotten on site.
How hard would it be to locate one of these things.
More to the point, this accusation comes up right after it was revealed that homobama pressured the Agentinians to sell nuke material to Iran. Hmmmm.....
Bingo. The timing of this story, with no names and no specifics, is suspicious.
1990s again http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/kazakhstan-four-people-detained-trying-sell-nuclear-materials/
http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/clandestine-nuclear-exports-cis-viewed/
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