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Published: 16 April, 2009, 16:42


Ukraine's security service has arrested a local politician and two acquaintances for trying to sell a radioactive substance which could be used to make a dirty bomb, Kyivpost.com reports.

 
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from Poland April 16, 2009, 16:01 quote
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I can`t really believe that someone actually managed to steal and tried to sold this without any control - it sounds like some Tom Clancy novel plot.

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