AW: [ RadSafe ] Dirty Bomb Material Report?

[jjcohen at prodigy.net]

In the world of radiophobia, it doesn't matter what the material is or how
much  there is. The only consideration is that it is radioactive, it is
therefore deadly, and it must be feared. Why complicate matters with
irrelevant information?----- 




Original Message ----- 
From: "Raymond A Hoover" <ray2hoover at yahoo.com>
To: "Franz Schönhofer" <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at>; "'J. Marshall Reber'"
<jmarshall.reber at comcast.net>; <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: AW: [ RadSafe ] Dirty Bomb Material Report?


> I just read the report.  It does not state how much material was bought.
The report states "...we purchased a small amount of radioactive sources and
one container used to store and transport the material from a commercial
source over the telephone".  It doesn't say how they managed to have the one
container at two seperate points at the same time.  The purchases were made
over the telephone.
>
>   The report states that two border crossings were made simultaneously,
one on the Canadian border and the other on the Mexican border and that
counterfeit documentation was used in the crossings.
>
>   In both cases the sources were detected by CBP and that the counterfeit
documents were examined.  In both cases the Border Officers questioned the
investigators.
>
> Franz Schönhofer <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at> wrote:
>   I read the story on USA today - online, though it sounded a little
> different. The NRC has - according to USA today - stated, that the
material
> involved was available without a license and not suitable for a "dirty
> bomb". USA today or rather GAO did not reveal what the material was and
how
> much it was.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Franz
>
> Franz Schoenhofer
> PhD, MR iR
> Habicherg. 31/7
> A-1160 Vienna
> AUSTRIA
> phone -43-0699-1168-1319
>
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im
> > Auftrag von J. Marshall Reber
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. März 2006 17:06
> > An: radsafe at radlab.nl
> > Betreff: [ RadSafe ] Dirty Bomb Material Report?
> >
> > Is this report available to anyone other than CNN:
> >
> > > The investigators purchased a "small quantity" of radioactive
materials
> > > from a commercial source, according to a Government Accountability
> > > Office report prepared for Senate Permanent Subcommittee on
> > > Investigations Chairman Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican.
> >
> >
> > see:
> >
> > http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/27/radioactive.smuggling/index.html
> >
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