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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"!Harry Hope!" |
| Date: |
05 Dec 2004 11:40:43 AM |
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Nigeria recovers stolen radioactive materials from Cheney's Halliburton |
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/05/content_2297877.htm
Nigeria recovers stolen radioactive materials from US oil company
2004-12-05
LAGOS, Dec. 5 (Xinhuanet) --
Two stolen radioactive materials that can be used to make "dirty
bombs" have been returned to Nigeria by US oil services company
Halliburton, head of the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA),
was quoted as saying Sunday.
The materials, which contained Caesium-137, were reported missing
while in transit between the Nigerian oil cities of Warri and Port
Harcourt by Halliburton's Nigerian subsidiary, HESNL, on Dec. 3, 2002.
The NNRA last year suspended Halliburton from carrying out any
activity involving the use, importation, transport and transfer of a
radioactive source in Nigeria until the missing materials were
recovered.
And in September 2003, the Nigerian government imposed an indefinite
ban on the award of contracts to the HENSL for its negligence leading
to the loss and its refusal to "cooperate with government authorities
in ensuring the return."
But the News Agency of Nigeria quoted Shamsudeen Elegba,
director-general of the NNRA, as saying Sunday:
"The (stolen radioactive) items are now legally under our control,
while the company is physically having them, but we have sealed the
items with special packs that cannot be broken without our consent."
Elegba said that the NNRA had conducted various tests to ascertain
integrity of the materials and confirm that they were the "real ones
taken away."
The ban on the company, however, could not be lifted unless President
Olusegun Obasanjo nodded his approval, Elegba added.
The stolen radioactive materials, which are primarily used to X-ray
oil pipelines for cracks but can also be used to make "dirty bombs,"
were reportedly first found in Germany following their disappearance.
But Germany refused Nigeria's request to repatriate the materials and
instead returned them to Halliburton, which moved them to the United
States in January this year.
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How about that.
Harry
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