Breaking: Passenger on Moscow - Tehran flight had uranium in suitcase
Israel Radio has just reported (3:00 Friday) that a passenger on a Moscow - Tehran flight was discovered to have uranium in his suitcase during a routine security check in Moscow. The security agents' suspicions were aroused by radioactivity in the security area.More details if I have them before the Sabbath starts.
UPDATE 3:19 PM
This is from Reuters:
The Russian customs service said Friday it had seized radioactive material found in the luggage of a passenger bound for Tehran at Moscow's Sheremetyevo international airport.I'm almost surprised the Russians stopped him....
The service said in a statement that tests showed the material was a radioactive isotope which could be obtained only "as a result of a nuclear reactor's operations."
The statement said the material had triggered an alarm in the airport's radiation control system. The luggage search led to a discovery of 18 pieces of radioactive metal packed in individual steel casings.
Labels: Iranian nuclear threat, Moscow, Tehran, uranium
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:01 PM
2 Comments:
Carl wrote; "I'm almost surprised the Russians stopped him...." ----------------------- No surprise, it cuts into the Russian governments business.
Was s/he a Russian, Iranian or North Korean??
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