Nigeria recovers stolen radioactive materials from US oil company

[Judi Lynn]

Nigeria recovers stolen radioactive materials from US oil company

www.chinaview.cn 2004-12-05 21:22:21

LAGOS, Dec. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Two stolen radioactive materials thatcan be used to make "dirty bombs" have been returned to Nigeria byUS oil services company Halliburton, head of the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA), was quoted as saying Sunday.

The materials, which contained Caesium-137, were reported missing while in transit between the Nigerian oil cities of Warri and Port Harcourt by Halliburton's Nigerian subsidiary, HESNL, on Dec. 3, 2002.

The NNRA last year suspended Halliburton from carrying out any activity involving the use, importation, transport and transfer ofa radioactive source in Nigeria until the missing materials were recovered.

And in September 2003, the Nigerian government imposed an indefinite ban on the award of contracts to the HENSL for its negligence leading to the loss and its refusal to "cooperate with government authorities in ensuring the return."
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/05/content_2297877.htm

[radwriter0555]

1. Well that's a TURN ABOUT, now isn't it?

hmmmm....

[VivaKerry]

3. Gee.. how great that halliburton went out there to 'find' the

nuclear materials! Such a good, good corporation! I mean, amazing that they were such great sleuths. It isn't like halliburton had taken and stored the materials and then just turned it in, kind of like the gun swap program cops use?

[Igel]

12. Read.

"... reportedly first found in Germany following their disappearance.

"But Germany refused Nigeria's request to repatriate the materials and instead returned them to Halliburton, which moved them to the United States in January this year."

Before tentatively forming a judgment, I'd want to know who did the "reporting." Probably the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, since this looks like it's built mostly on a press release from them.

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. OK. They say the material was stolen while in custody of

Haliburton. Haliburton returned it. Are they saying Haliburton stole it?

Why would Haliburton steal radioactive material good for making dirty bombs?

Let me think.............

[Just Me]

4. Halliburton - stolen yellowcake - December 2002,...

,...now,isn't THAT one hell of a coincidence!!!

Remind me, again, when the administration manufactured the Nigerian yellowcake acquisition by Iraq.

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. But will the media follow up on investigationg that?

Naw...why bother? Will any government agency or people in the know do anything...probably not. Will Joseph Wilson speak up about this? Maybe...but how much clout does he have anymore? He certainly is credible, but is treated like a pesky fly by the media vis-a-vis the Chimp Gang.

I think your connection is a good possibility to follow through on, Just Me...but how to make that happen? After all, the stolen yellow cake did make the 2003 SOTU, and started many things rolling, including upping the drumbeat to invade Iraq with the subsequently uneccessary tragic deaths of so many innocent civilians and our troops.

Gee, Beav! Ya think we oughta do the right thing here?

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. That was Niger

not Nigeria. They're two different countries on the African continent.

[Igel]

11. Not yellowcake (= uranium). Cesium. n/t

[CindyDale]

5. Yeah, the timing is bizarre

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. Am kicking because this is Too Much of a coincidence!

:kick:

[maddezmom]

9. Swiss Blocks Accounts in Oil Co. Probe (Nigeria)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&ncid=732&e=7&u=/ap/20041203/ap_on_bi_ge/switzerland_halliburton_probe

[intheozone]

10. This makes me believe even more so that Plame

was outed because she was getting too close to discovering something that the powers that be did not want discovered. Maybe it is true that she was outed as a means of bringing her and her network's work to and end.