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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Subject: Re: unconventional terror tactics (Iraq)
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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 90 03:32:05 GMT
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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)


In article <1990Oct18.021322.7052@cbnews.att.com> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) writes:

	
>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.


I think that two separate incidents might be confused here.  I recall reading
about an incident in Brazil where a piece of medical equipment containing
cobalt ended up in a junkyard, and some of the local kids got into it and
smeared the (powdered) cobalt on their bodies because they liked its pretty
blue glow.  This happened in the early Eighties.


Geoff


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