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Dirty bomb parts found in Tbilisi
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Dirty bomb parts found in Tbilisi
TBILISI, Georgia (Reuters) -- Georgian authorities have found highly radioactive material that could be used in a "dirty" bomb and a container of lethal Mustard Gas in a taxi in the capital Tbilisi, police said Monday.
Police searched the taxi on May 31 and found two metal boxes stuffed with radioactive by-products of nuclear fission, Cesium-137 and Strontium-90. One container, inscribed in Russian and English, weighed at least 170 lb.
A separate container had Mustard Gas, or Yperite, an odorless chemical used in World War I and which can be lethal in small quantities.
"The most likely version is that the containers were intended to be transported on to Turkey and to be resold," police spokesman Givi Mgebrishvili told a news conference.
Mgebrishvili said police found the material during a routine raid in a Tbilisi suburb.
The taxi driver was unaware of his dangerous cargo and has been released. Two suspects are in police custody, accused of trying to take the material to the former Soviet state's Adzhara autonomous republic on the border with Turkey.
:nervous: Scary world. :nervous:
TBILISI, Georgia (Reuters) -- Georgian authorities have found highly radioactive material that could be used in a "dirty" bomb and a container of lethal Mustard Gas in a taxi in the capital Tbilisi, police said Monday.
Police searched the taxi on May 31 and found two metal boxes stuffed with radioactive by-products of nuclear fission, Cesium-137 and Strontium-90. One container, inscribed in Russian and English, weighed at least 170 lb.
A separate container had Mustard Gas, or Yperite, an odorless chemical used in World War I and which can be lethal in small quantities.
"The most likely version is that the containers were intended to be transported on to Turkey and to be resold," police spokesman Givi Mgebrishvili told a news conference.
Mgebrishvili said police found the material during a routine raid in a Tbilisi suburb.
The taxi driver was unaware of his dangerous cargo and has been released. Two suspects are in police custody, accused of trying to take the material to the former Soviet state's Adzhara autonomous republic on the border with Turkey.
:nervous: Scary world. :nervous:
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