Dirty bomb ingredients: They're radioactive, and
they're missing


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Harwell Atomic Energy Center
LONDON -- Britain's intelligence service MI5 has
launched a high priority search for more than 1,000
pieces of missing radioactive medical equipment used
in the treatment of cancers and other illnesses in
British hospitals, says a report in Joseph Farah's G2
Bulletin.
The loss was discovered after Britain's understaffed
National Health Service hospitals made their quarterly
inventory returns to the government Environmental
Agency -- responsible for the safety of all medical
radioactive materials.

In all, some 10,000 items -- mostly used in nuclear
medicine -- were accounted for. Those past their
use-by date were destroyed at one of Britain's nuclear
reactors.
But the missing 1,000, all of which the last inventory
check show contained radioactive material, remain
unaccounted for.
"So far nine items are definitely believed to have
been stolen or lost. But theft is the most likely
reason. While each item contains relatively small
amounts of radioactive material, those nine items
alone could create a dirty bomb," said an MI5 source.
Osama bin Laden has repeatedly said his prime ambition
is to launch any form of nuclear attack against the
West.
The loss of the items has been reinforced by a U.S.
State Department intelligence report about fears that
terror suspects could be working in the NHS.
A State Department counter-espionage officer in
London, who works closely with MI5, confirmed there is
"concern about the large numbers of foreign born
workers in British and European hospitals with access
to materials which could be made into a dirty bomb."
At least one of Europe's criminal families, the Rising
Sun, based in Minsk, Belarus, has made it clear it
will pay "market value" for radioactive material.
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