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Radioactive Materials Smuggled Into U.S., Investigators Say

Spencer S. Hsu and William Branigin write in The Washington Post:

Congressional investigators testing U.S. port security smuggled enough radioactive material into the United States last year to make two dirty bombs, officials told a Senate panel today.

In a test in December, undercover teams from the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, carried small amounts of cesium-137, used in industrial applications, in the trunks of rental cars through official crossing points on the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico. The material triggered radiation alarms, but the undercover investigators used false documents to persuade U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspectors to let them through.

posted by Fergie @ 3/28/2006 06:01:00 PM