[lit-ideas] Bring Me Your Poor, Your Tired, Your Dirty Bombs...
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:23:02 -0500
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/27/radioactive.smuggling/index.html?section=cnn_topstories
Government investigators smuggled radioactive
materials into U.S.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two teams of government
investigators using fake documents were able to
enter the United States with enough radioactive
sources to make two dirty bombs, according to a
federal report made available Monday.
The investigators purchased a "small quantity" of
radioactive materials from a commercial source,
according to a Government Accountability Office
report prepared for Senate Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations Chairman Norm Coleman, a
Minnesota Republican.
The investigators posed as employees of a
fictitious company and brought the materials into
the United States through checkpoints on the
northern and southern borders, the report stated.
"It's just an indictment of the system that it's
easier to get radiological material than it is to
get cold medicine," said a senior subcommittee
staffer about the findings.
The report, along with two others by the GAO on
the subject of smuggling and detection of nuclear
materials, were provided to reporters by
congressional sources in advance of the first of
two hearings by the subcommittee scheduled to
begin Tuesday.
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