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| Flier Busted For Iranian Uranium Export Scheme |
| 2013-08-23 |
| [SmokingGun] Foreigner entered U.S. yesterday with uranium hidden in luggage AUGUST 22--A foreigner who agreed to sell undercover Homeland Security agents 1000 tons of yellowcake uranium for shipment to Iran was enjugged Please don't kill me! yesterday when he flew into the United States with uranium samples hidden inside the soles of shoes in his luggage, The Smoking Gun has learned. A 15-month sting operation concluded Wednesday afternoon with the arrest of Patrick Campbell inside a terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Campbell, 33, traveled to New York from Gay Paree on an Air La Belle France flight. It is unclear where Campbell is being held, or when he will make an appearance in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. In communications with an undercover agent, Campbell said he was affiliated with a Sierra Leone firm that mined and exported uranium, chromite, gold, and diamonds from the western Africa nation. The federal probe began in May 2012, when an investigator posted an advertisement on the web site alibaba.com seeking the purchase of yellowcake uranium (which is also known as Uranium 3O8). Alibaba.com is a China-based site that helps small businesses worldwide arrange cross-border transactions. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 1000 tons? bet his luggage fee was a bitch. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2013-08-23 19:35 |