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...Laden is only a part of the nuclear terror problem. Since the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of global terrorist groups, a new market has emerged to manage the increased supply of--and demand for--nuclear contraband. More and more radioactive material has been getting filched, bundled and sent flowing through an increasingly busy pipeline from Russia and the old Soviet states into the hands, it is feared, of people desperate enough...
...same time that smugglers are getting better at obtaining their merchandise, they are also getting smarter about transporting it. The first nuclear black marketeers carried their contraband straight out of Russia and into Europe, across some of the best-guarded borders in the world. As customs officials caught wise, the smugglers started shifting their route south, running a flanking pattern through Central Asia, the Caucasus Mountains and Turkey before resurfacing in Europe. This modified buttonhook play allows traffickers to take advantage of established drug routes--a smart strategy, since customs agents in a place such as Tajikistan, where 200 tons...
...Senior writer JEFFREY KLUGER usually covers the space program. This week he writes about a more earthbound subject: smuggling atomic contraband out of Russia and into the hands of terrorists. "There are a lot of terrorist groups besides al-Qaeda that want to get their hands on nuclear material," says Kluger. "It's the job of the U.S. and other countries to start turning off the spigot." Chat with him Thursday...
...ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Nineteen people in this "contraband capital" have been arrested, mostly on false-documentation charges, and Paraguay has charged officials in 11 of its consulates with selling illegal passports and documents...
Other students came up with more creative options. In his post to the Eliot e-mail list, Bell wrote, “I for one am sponge-bathing with the water from a contraband coffee maker. I’ll be out in the courtyard with a hose if any of you have really stinky roommates...