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Russian Customs Seize Iran-Bound Radioactive Metal
« on: December 17, 2011, 10:06:00 PM »
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Russian Customs Seize Iran-Bound Radioactive Metal
Published December 16, 2011 | Associated Press

MOSCOW –  Russia's customs agency said Friday that it seized radioactive metal from the luggage of an Iranian passenger bound for Tehran...

( Video Link to Fox News.com )
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And yup; right on cue, our peace loving Iranian brothers are squealing, "INNOCENT... INNOCENT... INNOCENT".


On a side note, in our "sloppy journalism of the day" column:

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...The pieces contained Sodium-22, she said, a radioactive isotope of sodium that could be produced in a particle accelerator. Sodium-22 is a positron-emitting isotope that has medical uses, including in nuclear medicine imaging....


Hmmmm; a "normal matter" isotope that emits ANTIMATTER particles?!?!  (I trust the ejumicated idiot at the AP meant to say, "Proton-emitting isotope".  :whatever: )
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Re: Russian Customs Seize Iran-Bound Radioactive Metal
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2011, 08:35:19 AM »
RUSSIAN customs? Wow... that's a surprise. If it's Russian customs then trust me there is an agenda behind this. One call to officials about this would either clear this guy to go ahead or stay, and someone wanted this publicity for some reason. Also the fact that he did not try to hide this at all further shows that this was most likely not a problem in the past at all.
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Re: Russian Customs Seize Iran-Bound Radioactive Metal
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2011, 08:42:00 AM »
ANTIMATTER: The facts that don't matter to a liberal  journalist.
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Re: Russian Customs Seize Iran-Bound Radioactive Metal
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2011, 12:34:22 PM »
Quote from: Cyrus on December 18, 2011, 08:35:19 AM
RUSSIAN customs? Wow... that's a surprise. If it's Russian customs then trust me there is an agenda behind this.

Very astute of you to notice that, Cyrus.  The possible meanings cover a lot of territory though.  This could be any number of things, from a deception to portray Russians as actually following the UN sanctions, to a signal to Iran that the Russians are not willing to completely back their plays, to someone simply neglecting to pay the agreed-upon bribe or leaving the wrong customs officers out.  It is unfortunately impossible to say from public information.
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