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Georgia holds four over dirty bomb fears
By Isabel Gorst in Moscow
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ebbf942e-f42a-11df-89a6-00144feab49a.html#ixzz15rgrhdyO
November 19 2010 23:10
Georgia arrested four people on Friday and seized radioactive material
it said could be used to make a dirty bomb.
Shota Utiashvili, a spokesman for Georgia's interior ministry said
police had seized Cesium-137 in a residential district of Tbilisi and
arrested four people suspected of trying to sell the material.
The seizure, following the arrest in Tbilisi of two Armenian men in
March accused of smuggling weapons grade uranium into Georgia, will
add to concern about the risk of nuclear materials falling into the
hands of terrorist groups in the former Soviet Union.
Mr Utiashvili said Cesium-137, which was used to make
telecommunications batteries in Georgia during the Soviet era, was
`widely available' in the country and frequently seized by police from
thieves.
From: A. Papazian
By Isabel Gorst in Moscow
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ebbf942e-f42a-11df-89a6-00144feab49a.html#ixzz15rgrhdyO
November 19 2010 23:10
Georgia arrested four people on Friday and seized radioactive material
it said could be used to make a dirty bomb.
Shota Utiashvili, a spokesman for Georgia's interior ministry said
police had seized Cesium-137 in a residential district of Tbilisi and
arrested four people suspected of trying to sell the material.
The seizure, following the arrest in Tbilisi of two Armenian men in
March accused of smuggling weapons grade uranium into Georgia, will
add to concern about the risk of nuclear materials falling into the
hands of terrorist groups in the former Soviet Union.
Mr Utiashvili said Cesium-137, which was used to make
telecommunications batteries in Georgia during the Soviet era, was
`widely available' in the country and frequently seized by police from
thieves.
From: A. Papazian