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| Radioactive material stolen in Iraq raises security concerns |
| 2016-02-18 |
| [IN.REUTERS] Iraq is searching for "highly dangerous" radioactive material stolen last year, according to an environment ministry document and seven security, environmental and provincial officials who fear it could be used as a weapon if acquired by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... The material, stored in a protective case the size of a laptop computer, went missing in November from a storage facility near the southern city of Basra belonging to U.S. oilfield services company Weatherford, the document seen by Rooters showed and officials confirmed. A front man for Iraq's environment ministry said he could not discuss the issue, citing national security concerns. A Weatherford front man in Iraq declined to comment, and the company's Houston headquarters did not respond to repeated requests for comment. The material, which uses gamma rays to test flaws in materials used for oil and gas pipelines in a process called industrial gamma radiography, is owned by Istanbul-based SGS ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , according to the document and officials. An SGS official in Iraq declined to comment and referred Rooters to its Turkish headquarters, which did not respond to phone calls. In Washington, a U.S. official said the United States was aware that Iraq had reported a missing specialized camera containing highly radioactive Iridium-192 to the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... nuclear watchdog, in November. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 You want to buy 500,000 Fire Detectors? Srsly? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-02-18 14:17 |
| #1 Fear of "Dirty Bombs". * See also RUSSIA TODAY > ISIS AFTER EU NUCLEAR PLANT? PARIS ATTACKERS SNOOPED ON BELGIUM NUCLEAR BOSS, MEDIA REVEALS. GERMANY-criticized rundown or discrepit Belgium NucPlant. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-02-18 01:01 |