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| Uranium smugglers released, disappear... |
| 2002-09-30 |
| Turkish authorities Sunday released two men accused of attempting to smuggle a quantity of uranium, saying the amount in their possession was only a fraction of what officials originally estimated. Turkish officials announced Saturday they had seized a box filled with nearly 35 pounds (15 kilograms) of uranium. But Muzaffer Dilek, the mayor of Sanliurfa, a Turkish city near the Turkey-Syria border, said Sunday that the material amounted to only 140 grams — about five ounces. The two men arrested with the material were released due to lack of evidence and have since disappeared, Dilek said. Beat it, did they? I think that's what I'da done, too. In fact, I'm sure of it... The material is being taken to a nuclear research facility in Ankara to determine its composition, Turkey's Ministry of Internal Affairs said. That analysis was expected to be complete by Monday. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |