Posted on 10/07/2015 8:35:35 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
CHISINAU, Moldova — Over the pulsating beat at an exclusive nightclub, the arms smuggler made his pitch to a client: 2.5 million euros for enough radioactive cesium to contaminate several city blocks.
It was earlier this year, and the two men were plotting their deal at an unlikely spot: the terrace of Cocos Prive, a dance club and sushi bar in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova.
“You can make a dirty bomb, which would be perfect for the Islamic State,” the smuggler said. “If you have a connection with them, the business will go smoothly.”
But the smuggler, Valentin Grossu, wasn’t sure the client was for real — and he was right to worry. The client was an informant, and it took some 20 meetings to persuade Grossu that he was an authentic Islamic State representative. Eventually, the two men exchanged cash for a sample in a sting operation that landed Grossu in jail.
The previously unpublicized case is one of at least four attempts in five years in which criminal networks with suspected Russian ties sought to sell radioactive material to extremists through Moldova, an investigation by The Associated Press has found. One investigation uncovered an attempt to sell bomb-grade uranium to a real buyer from the Middle East, the first known case of its kind. . .
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Although you are correct, I don’t think that will be the target. Who is kill move of them now? A lot more?
I have to learn how to type. Who is killing more of them? It’s not us.
A dirty bomb shutting down the Federal Government for weeks? Sounds like a plan.
The only paralysis would be from FEAR, not Hazard. Spread a little contamination around, big deal, clean it up.
[The only paralysis would be from FEAR, not Hazard. Spread a little contamination around, big deal, clean it up.]
Yeah, panic is the main objective. I’ve read normal rainfall would clean up a lot of the radiation.
If panic is the objective cable news presents a much bigger threat than the cesium.
[If panic is the objective cable news presents a much bigger threat than the cesium.]
You’re right. What irks me is the obsession of cable news to lock onto some remote event and continue covering it exclusively for hours or even days. This is at the expense of regular programming.
The blueprint for a ‘dirty bomb’, or a radioactive device, has been in print sice the 1950’s, with the publication of the James Bond novel, “Goldfinger”, including smuggling foreign troops across our Southern border.
A ‘dirty bomb’ is not a normal nuclear device. Consider the picture of a hand grenade wrapped in bacon. So it is with a ‘dirty bomb’. A standard explosive device encased with any outer casing measurement of machined radioactive material. Both explode, and disperse the bacon or the radioactive material. Yes, there might be bomb victims, however the victims that are NOT counted would be those that were exposed to the radioactive material, outside the immediate blast area, by either the dust, or the small bits hiding in crevices, or in the sidewalk drains, or wherever they become lodged, until they are cleaned up, maybe weeks afterwards.
“...would disrupt business for weeks.”
If you remember the anthrax attack post 911. There was contamination in the Morgan Postal facility in Manhatan and the congressional office building in DC.
The Morgan Postal Facility was closed “for weeks”. (Where the surfs work.)
The congressional office building was closed, all the ventilation ductwork was removed from the building and replaced. It took the better part of a year.
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