Disappearance of 100 bars of uranium

I don't think I have to say how much this scares me. WMDs are about the only thing that scares me more than LA traffic, and this is not the kind of story that is going to make me sleep well. The UN "Nuclear Watchdog" is a house pet! All they DO is watch. They have no teeth. I think a battalion of US Marines could guard the worlds uranium better than all the worthless "inspectors" of the UN. I wonder how the Commandant of the Marine Corps would handle shakeing up the UN?

The UN nuclear watchdog and Kinshasa government investigate disappearance of 100 bars of uranium believed smuggled to Iran

March 14, 2007, 12:18 PM (GMT+02:00)

The DR Congo newspaper Le Phare reported the uranium was removed from the nuclear center in Kinshasa as “part of a vast trafficking operation.”

The DR Congo’s commissioner for atomic energy Prof. Fortunat Lumu and an associate have been arrested for allegedly belonging to an international network set up to mine and export uranium illegally in recent years. Tehran is suspected of being behind the affair.

Congo minister of scientific research Sylvanus Mushi said Lumu and his colleague had illegally negotiated partnership deals with foreign companies without government authorization. He said network members had come from Europe, South Africa and the Seychelles.

Congo’s Shinkolobwe mine provided high-quality uranium for the Manhattan Project in World War Two. Belgium sealed the mine by filling it with concrete when Congo gained independence in 1960.

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