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Guerillas Glowing In The Mist

by West Virginia Rebel

Let’s see if this leads anywhere:

BOGOTA, March 26 (Reuters) - Colombia said it grabbed at least 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of uranium from the country’s biggest left-wing rebel group on Wednesday, the first time radioactive material has been linked to the bloody four-decade-old guerrilla war.

The material was found in a rural area long considered a guerrilla stronghold just south of the capital city Bogota. It is being examined by state experts, said a Defense Ministry statement.

The statement did not say where the uranium came from or what it could be used for.

“This appears to have been part of a black market operation that the guerrillas were trying to use to make money,” said Pablo Casas, an analyst at Bogota think-tank Security & Democracy.

“This is new for Colombia and could bring the FARC into the major leagues of black market terrorist transactions,” Casas said.

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Comments

Posted by on 03/27/08 at 08:26 AM from

I don’t think we need to worry much about Chavez making nukes.  Dirty bombs, though, would be right up his alley…

Posted by on 03/28/08 at 02:38 PM from

What is really the issue is that Uranium is mined in Venezuela in reasonable quantities.  The rumor is that Chavez is using his FARC friends to supply is Iran friends with uranium (for peaceful purposes, I am sure).  It won’t take much work on the part of the an atomic lab to identify where the stuff comes from by looking at the signature impurities.

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