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'Extremely dangerous' radioactive material stolen in Mexico: IAEA
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well ,do you really think anybody but cia hold 5he ho or of the title
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Surely your parents or grand parents must be?
My father side go back to Texas revolution, when they were sided to the Santa-Anna side, after that all were born and raise in modern US
My mother side never migrated to the US so...
Having problem understand what you were saying....
But if CIA is behind this, they would definitely steal more than Cobalt 60
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talking about the next world drug dealer not some petty thief who stole some cobalt 60
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Stolen cobalt-60 found in Mexico; thieves may be doomed
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s public-health scare turned into a logistical hurdle Thursday as authorities sought to safely put a stolen load of radioactive material back into its container.
As officials worked on the material, federal police and soldiers formed a cordon of several hundred yards around the field in Hueypoxtla where a container of highly radioactive cobalt-60 was abandoned after it was stolen from truck drivers transporting it to a storage facility in central Mexico.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the “extremely dangerous” cargo of pellets used in hospital radiotherapy machines had been removed from its protective casing, but “there is no indication that it has been damaged or broken up” and there is “no sign of contamination to the area.”
Mexican authorities estimated it could take a couple of days to safely contain and remove the cobalt-60 and that it does not pose a health risk to the public.
“At this moment the situation is not that serious, because the source has been located and it’s being protected,” said Benjamin Ruiz Loyola, a chemistry professor and hazardous substance expert at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
The theft of the material sparked international concern because of the possibility that the cobalt-60 could be used in a “dirty bomb.” But by Wednesday afternoon, authorities had found the stolen Volkswagen cargo truck and the radioactive material.
President Obama’s national security team monitored the situation in Mexico “very closely” Wednesday, and there is no reason to believe the stolen truck posed a threat to the United States, White House press secretary Jay Carney said.
“What's most important is that the vehicle and equipment were recovered and the situation was resolved,” Carney said.
The drivers of the cargo truck were sleeping at a gas station this week when gunmen assaulted them and stole their truck. Mexican nuclear safety officials said they believed the carjackers did not know what they were stealing and that they may die from exposure to the radioactive material.
The IAEA said in its statement that it “would probably be fatal to be close to this amount of unshielded radioactive material for a period in the range of a few minutes to an hour.” It is unclear how long the material was handled by the carjackers or others who found it later.
Mexican officials said members of one family who came across the container were checked for contamination but appeared to be fine.
Stolen cobalt-60 found in Mexico; thieves may be doomed - The Washington Post
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s public-health scare turned into a logistical hurdle Thursday as authorities sought to safely put a stolen load of radioactive material back into its container.
As officials worked on the material, federal police and soldiers formed a cordon of several hundred yards around the field in Hueypoxtla where a container of highly radioactive cobalt-60 was abandoned after it was stolen from truck drivers transporting it to a storage facility in central Mexico.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the “extremely dangerous” cargo of pellets used in hospital radiotherapy machines had been removed from its protective casing, but “there is no indication that it has been damaged or broken up” and there is “no sign of contamination to the area.”
Mexican authorities estimated it could take a couple of days to safely contain and remove the cobalt-60 and that it does not pose a health risk to the public.
“At this moment the situation is not that serious, because the source has been located and it’s being protected,” said Benjamin Ruiz Loyola, a chemistry professor and hazardous substance expert at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
The theft of the material sparked international concern because of the possibility that the cobalt-60 could be used in a “dirty bomb.” But by Wednesday afternoon, authorities had found the stolen Volkswagen cargo truck and the radioactive material.
President Obama’s national security team monitored the situation in Mexico “very closely” Wednesday, and there is no reason to believe the stolen truck posed a threat to the United States, White House press secretary Jay Carney said.
“What's most important is that the vehicle and equipment were recovered and the situation was resolved,” Carney said.
The drivers of the cargo truck were sleeping at a gas station this week when gunmen assaulted them and stole their truck. Mexican nuclear safety officials said they believed the carjackers did not know what they were stealing and that they may die from exposure to the radioactive material.
The IAEA said in its statement that it “would probably be fatal to be close to this amount of unshielded radioactive material for a period in the range of a few minutes to an hour.” It is unclear how long the material was handled by the carjackers or others who found it later.
Mexican officials said members of one family who came across the container were checked for contamination but appeared to be fine.
Stolen cobalt-60 found in Mexico; thieves may be doomed - The Washington Post
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you do know the world drug dealer title is currently at Columbia right??
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Lol mr tin foil head....
Tell me, if we really want to be the next world drug lord, why would we do it secretly? Doing it secretly earn us little.
Can any country stop us from being the world drug lord if we were actually growing opiate in the public? You think Iran or even China can stop us?
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Stigma of being the top drug lord ,and the fact that you can't answer the public opinion of the junkies that why you prosecute them in USA for drug related crimes but protect drug lords who provide them with the poison .
Drug production in Afghanistan under USA control increased 10 fold compared to it under Taliban .
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Set aside how exactly you can measure how much drug people are growing in Afghanistan, you don't exactly go door to door and ask if anyone is growing opium you know?
Lets assume you are right, the opium production is indeed increase in 10 fold since US start the Afghanistan war. Are there any correlation between the 2?
I can say since the time that I was born some 30 years ago, the life expectancy on average increase by 15 percentage, can I say people today live longer BECAUSE I was born?
Oh by the way, since US does not have major drug production in their soil, almost all the drug lord are living outside US, how are we going to arrest them? Send a team of DEA agent and arrest the drug lord in Columbia or Mexico?
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you are wrong , the drug production in Afghanistan become ten fold since US ended the war in Afghanistan and started policing the country not since when they started the war.
and how you could they stopped the drugs , very simple , just burn the fields that is used for te production , you can't hid them.
and about drug lords living outside the USA , those Noriega ring a bell
also who asked you going and arrest them , just don't support them.
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A.) It's impossible to measure the increase the amount of drug produce in Afghanistan. Can you name me one method that you can use to measure the exact amount of Drug coming out of Afghanistan?? People grow drug illegally, as far as i concern, they will not boardcast they are growing drug in public. So either you have a reference to back up your "Ten Fold" estimation, or back off.
B.) Even if you can proof, beyond doubt, that Since US invaded Afghanistan, drug indeed increased by 10 fold, can you definitely proof that it is US or CIA behind it?? Drug production increase can be of many reason. It can be because the situation is more chaotic now, and people who used to control the drug production did not come back after the war started, and the farmer grow more as they will. Again, unless you can definitely proof that it's US behind the Drug, then back off.
And i laughed at you comment on burning the field, while we are at it, maybe we should just drop some Naplam on it? Wait, they can still grow drug elsewhere, and you can't literally bomb every inch of Afghanistan, then why don't we kill all the farmer?? Oh wait, we can't possible kill all afghani, oh yeah, i know, we should drop some nuke....lol
You can't burn the field just because you know they grow drug on it. A.) If you burn it, they will just go grow it somewhere else. 2.) You cannot burn the field since maybe the farmer were planning on growing tomato or any plant/vege that's essential for their living.
The best US force can do is to conficate drug in Afghanistan as a completed product, we have no autrhority nor reason to burn those field, those are afghan property, ANP/ANA can, we can't and do you think will they support us??
Afghans oppose U.S. hit list of drug traffickers - Washington Post
And do you actually know how illegal drug trade work?? Even if we do not support the drug dealer in Columbia or Mexico, they will sell it to US if we need them, and we have a large crack-head population.
An Mexico Farmer grow coffee will earn him $5 per acre, while growing opium will earn him $500 per acre. It take maybe $100 to grease the local cop. you are looking at 500% profits. So What if US trying to stop that trade?? The answer to mexcian drug lord is simple, ok, now the US screen more and more and the chance is harder to summgle to the US, what would you do?? You grow more, you put more product in and you get a better chance your shipment will reach the US. We can all go hostile against Mexico or Columbia, execpt we invaded Mexico or Columbia, those drug will keep flowing into the US, now only, the more you bust, the more it flood your market. In the end, the more we do operation in our border, it will only make drug lord produce more drug and result is they have more drug with better quality in our market, as we cannot close them all.
So even if we don't support and even go hostile on drug lord, there are nothing we can do about it. As long as farmer earn 500% more growing drug and mule earn 100% more doing their work, the drug lord simply will not run out of people to grow it and people to smuggle it.
You think you know how drug trade work by watching PressTV or RT??
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well , let tell you what's your mistake so you may stop laughing first the statistic I posted are not from me but from UNODC
this id from this year
Afghanistan's poppy farmers plant record opium crop, UN report says | World news | The Guardian
this from last year
Heroin production in Afghanistan has RISEN 61% | Mail Online
well this one said it was not time increase but 30 time increase
about they magically grow the opium somewhere else , well it take another year for it to be ready and you will simply burn that too , they cant hide those fields and they can't move it . and by this at least all those drones there can be used for something useful and you don't need throw some napalm there to burn those fields .
and farmer do this only if they think they can escape with it , answer me if this way of fighting is not useful , how there is no poppy field in Iran now while 100 years ago there was a lot of them
and let just tell you one thing you are wrong if you think drug lords can magically increase the production 5 time to flood the market .
this slide show you how when there is a political will no drug dealer can stand to it.
look at the years 1984 and 2001
Taliban's Ban On Poppy A Success, U.S. Aides Say - New York Times
this id from this year
Afghanistan's poppy farmers plant record opium crop, UN report says | World news | The Guardian
this from last year
Heroin production in Afghanistan has RISEN 61% | Mail Online
well this one said it was not time increase but 30 time increase
about they magically grow the opium somewhere else , well it take another year for it to be ready and you will simply burn that too , they cant hide those fields and they can't move it . and by this at least all those drones there can be used for something useful and you don't need throw some napalm there to burn those fields .
and farmer do this only if they think they can escape with it , answer me if this way of fighting is not useful , how there is no poppy field in Iran now while 100 years ago there was a lot of them
and let just tell you one thing you are wrong if you think drug lords can magically increase the production 5 time to flood the market .
this slide show you how when there is a political will no drug dealer can stand to it.
look at the years 1984 and 2001
Taliban's Ban On Poppy A Success, U.S. Aides Say - New York Times
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