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Russia Catches Iranian With Radioactive Metal

He was trying to board a plane to Tehran

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 16, 2011 1:02 PM CST

(Newser) – Russian custom agents have seized 18 pieces of radioactive metal from an Iranian man who was trying to board a flight to Tehran, the customs agency announced today. The incident occurred sometime in the past—the agency didn't specify when—at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. The man's luggage triggered the airport radiation alarm, registering at 20 times above normal levels. The luggage was seized, but the Iranian was not detained.

Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear energy corporation, has provided Iran radioactive isotopes in the past, but a spokesman tells the AP there's only an "extremely slim chance" the material came from there. The metal contained Sodium-22, a positron-emitting isotope made by particle accelerators, not nuclear reactors, he explained, adding that some universities, research institutes, and medical centers have the technology to produce it.

Passengers walk under departure boards showing flights to some European countries delayed or cancelled at a departure terminal in Sheremetyevo airport, near Moscow in 2010.
Passengers walk under departure boards showing flights to some European countries delayed or cancelled at a departure terminal in Sheremetyevo airport, near Moscow in 2010.   (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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jgarbuz
Dec 17, 2011 9:36 AM CST
Sure, Iran which murders its own people and hangs them from cranes, and who blows up Marine barracks as well as Jewish community centers, is as innocent as the driven snow, while the Joooz are the bad guys yet again! IS there anything that Muslims do that can't be blamed on the Jews?
morecowbell
Dec 16, 2011 11:16 PM CST
As if someone is going to supply weapons grade material through an airport. This may well  be  just isotopes used for blood X-rays which are harmless. This sounds like another MOSSAD OPERATION. Israeli security companies controlled the airports used in the 9/11 hijackings and the underwear bomber slipped through (escorted with no passport) in Amsterdams Israeli controlled airport. http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/underwear_bomber__206.html ICTS SECURITY is a MOSSAD FRONT. ICTS had the contract that allowed three FALSE FLAG TERRORIST EVENTS TO OCCUR: --9/11, ICTS at two airports allowed patsies on the planes; --ICTS allowed RICHARD "shoe bomber on the plane"; --ICTS allowed XMAS bomber on FLIGHT 253, and...he did not have a valid passport?
boxcar
Dec 16, 2011 5:36 PM CST
On the day of 9/11 working at Los Alamos Nat'l Labs, a nuclear weapons scientist told me their next concern is IF terrorists can get their hands on fissionable material it can be used to fab a nuclear IED where a container the size of a fire extinguisher can be evacuated and loaded at both ends with C4 plastic explosive behind 2 parts of a critical mass to be detonated on command AFTER they ship one to every Home Depot in the US using the most reliable weapons delivery system yet devised by man- [Container Ships] Only way to stop them is to make sure they don't get the fissionable material in the first place. Thats why IRAN & PAKISTAN are strategic

 
Iran • Russia • Tehran • Moscow • Iranian nuclear program • Iran nuclear weapons program • Rosatom

 
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