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Thursday, 27 March 2008

"Colombia seizes uranium from leftist guerrillas"

I haven't see this reported anywhere in the UK, according to Reuters "Colombia said it seized at least 66 pounds (30 kg) of uranium from the country's biggest left-wing rebel group on Wednesday, the first time radioactive material has been linked to the four-decade-old guerrilla war. The uranium was found in a rural area long considered a Marxist guerrilla stronghold just south of the capital Bogota."

The consensus view is that FARC are not capable of making a nuclear device or even a dirty bomb but that this is "just" a money making exercise as they try to sell the uranium to a third party. Somehow I don't think the "end users" are likely to be great friends of Western democracy.

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