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To: Snowshoe who wrote (357)	11/7/2001 4:24:36 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) of 827

Police Detain Turks Smuggling Uranium dailynews.yahoo.com Tuesday November 6 7:51 PM ET ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Undercover police arrested an ambulance driver and his friend in a sting operation as they tried to sell agents uranium smuggled from the former Soviet Union, the Turkish news agency reported Tuesday. The Anatolia Agency said it was not clear if the 3.52 pounds of uranium was enriched for use in weapons or reactors. Undercover agents arrested the two in Istanbul after they showed up in an ambulance to make the sale. The uranium was wrapped in newspaper and the men demanded $750,000, Anatolia said. Istanbul police would not comment on the Anatolia report, which said it was not clear when the arrests were made. Interior Ministry officials confirmed the seizure but gave no other detail. Anatolia said the uranium was originally smuggled from one of the former Soviet republics.

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