A particular petition on the whitehouse.gov site

[robkelk]

If this report I've heard from a person living in Kyiv is accurate:

SBU arrested a team of people delivering nuclear materials from the RF-controlled Transnistria region through the Ukrainian border. There's some indication that the intent was a construction of a dirty bomb.

then there's no question that the RF is sponsoring terrorism. Where else could the "nuclear materials" have come from?

He's provided a http://www.sbu.gov.ua/sbu/control/uk/pu ... t_id=39574]source for that claim.

And, for those who don't speak Ukranian, http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php? ... tcount=105]a translation:

Counterintelligence of SBU confiscated from illegal possession a source of ionising radiation containing up to 1½kg of U-235

30th of April of this year, on the territory of Chernigivska region, SBU detained 9 persons: citizens of Ukraine and, by preliminary information, one citizen of RF.

The material has been brought to the territory of Ukraine from the self-proclaimed Near-Dnister Moldavian Republic [Transnistria/PMR] on an automobile with foreign number plates. Radioactive material was held in a container of improvised construction.

During the urgent investigation SBU gained information, based on which it can not be excluded that the objective of the detained group was the creation of a «dirty» bomb and its use during mass actions in South-Eastern regions of Ukraine for the purpose of destabilising the socio-political situation in the state.

Based on this fact was began a criminal investigation based on part 1 of article 265 (illegal actions regarding radioactive materials) of the Criminal Codex of Ukraine

Investigative actions continue

That's a heck of a lot of U-235.
--
Rob Kelk
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