NTI: Global Security Newswire - Wednesday, August 18, 2004

[Stewart Farber <farbersa@optonline.net>]

Hi all:

Another case of who knows what, based on limited info made available.  

Anyone know anything more?



Stewart Farber



See:



Ukrainian Police Recover Radioactive Material



Ukrainian police Sunday discovered three containers holding radioactive  

material near the southern city of Odessa, according to the Ukrainian  

newspaper Segodnya (see GSN, Aug. 10). The material was found as part of  

an investigation into organized crime activity.



The containers are suspected of containing plutonium and strontium, but  

further testing is needed before the material can be conclusively  

identified, according to Segodnya. The radioactivity level of the material  

within the containers is hundreds of times greater than the legal limit,  

the newspaper reported. The containers were discovered along with a cache  

of weapons including assault rifles and grenade launchers (Oleksandr  

Korchynskyy, Segodnya/BBC Monitoring, Aug. 17



SOURCE:

<URL: http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_8_18.html >

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