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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Radioactive Material Discovered in 30 Crates of Sanitary Pads at Beirut Airport
2015-03-21
Is this a way of smuggling dangerous materials to dangerous people, and therefore WoT, or is this a matter of poor quality materials, and therefore unimportant?
[AnNahar] Customs agents at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport seized on Friday a number of crates of sanitary pads that contained radioactive material.
"Edna! What's that glowing under the covers?"
"Just you never mind Harold, and don't even think of touching me tonight."
The Finance Ministry announced that 30 crates were confiscated, while Minister Ali Hassan Khalil had ordered that samples be referred to the Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission for testing.

He also ordered the concerned authorities to send the shipment back to the exporting country, which was not named in the Ministry statement.

In February, customs agents at Rafik Hariri International Airport discovered radioactive material in a shipment of 98 crates of mobile phone covers that were imported from China.

On January 5, Khalil revealed that toxic radioactive material was discovered in food products, narcotic pills, and industrial machines that were being smuggled at the airport and Beirut Port.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  Cooties are radioactive? Who knew?!
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169    2015-03-21 21:02  

#6   Point is, this could be nothing more than execrable quality control. Maybe the stuff was made in China, like the pet food with melamine.

That was precisely my question, Richard. Lebanon has serious problems with consumer product quality control. There are frequent arrests for warehouses full of overaged medicines or dangerously contaminated chickens packaged for sale.
Posted by: trailing wife   2015-03-21 12:19  

#5  Wait!!! Lebanon has an Atomic Energy Commission ? WTF ?
How can that be unless it's two kids with a Geiger counter and an etch-a-sketch?
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2015-03-21 11:37  

#4   Khalil revealed that toxic radioactive material was discovered in food products, narcotic pills, and industrial machines.

So you folks passed through Beirut's Rafik Harari International on your way to the U.S.

Why yes we did, how did you know ?

Posted by: Herman the Batty9794   2015-03-21 09:13  

#3  Decades ago, a truck carrying waste from a radiation oncology facility crashed. All that was in it was pads and bandages and so forth. A Detroit paper headlined that it "failed to explode". Point is, this could be nothing more than execrable quality control. Maybe the stuff was made in China, like the pet food with melamine.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2015-03-21 07:42  

#2  I dunno but I am a thinkin its a plot by the Juices to transmit the vanshing penis virus
Posted by: Bov Flimbers   2015-03-21 02:05  

#1  Or do the suppurating tumors prevent conception?
Posted by: Skidmark   2015-03-21 00:50  

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