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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: unconventional terror tactics (Iraq)
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington IN.
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 90 02:13:22 GMT
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
*>	Approximately two years ago a truck was stolen.  In the truck
*>was a safe filled with radioactive cobalt.  The thieves sold the safe
*>as scrap in Mexico, where it was smelted, resulting in the
*>incorporation of the cobalt into reinforcing rods and cast table
*>supports.  Some workers at the smelter became quite ill from radiation
*>poisoning.  Product was shipped back into the USA by the truckload and
*>detected only by a incredible stroke of luck, some of the rods were
*>sent into a DOE plant where the exit detectors detected radioactivity
*>coming into the plant.

Actually, it was worse. The cobalt-60
came from a piece of medical irradiation 
equipment sold to a group of Mexican 
doctors. The machine sat around unused 
until sold for scrap. The people at the 
junkyard cut open the cylinder and pel-
lets of Co-60 were scattered all over 
the place where kids could  get at them. 
Some got into the table legs and bars.


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