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Five arrested for alleged 'uranium' smuggling, say police
Guwahati, India (AFP) Sept 11, 2008 Five people were arrested in India's remote northeastern state of Meghalaya for allegedly trying to smuggle uranium, police said Thursday. The arrests came after a man was found with a parcel containing a powdery substance about 40 kilometres (25 miles) from state capital Shillong. "We seized the packet from the village headman and took him into custody. Later we arrested four other people in the same case," M. Kharkrang, police chief of the West Khasi Hills district, said by telephone. Police suspected the contents to be uranium and sent them for tests, they said. Five people were arrested in May for allegedly trying to sell a kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of uranium for 2.6 million rupees (57,000 dollars). Surveys by India's Atomic Energy Department estimate the Domiasiat area of Meghalaya could hold up to 375,000 tonnes of uranium ore deposits. Uranium ore has to be cleaned and processed before it becomes useable as nuclear reactor fuel to generate electricity. It has to go through further enrichment before it can be used to develop weapons. The state-run Uranium Corporation of India stopped mining in Meghalaya in the mid-90s following violent protests from villagers and pressure groups over health fears. India has been trying to secure uranium to fuel its civilian nuclear atomic plants. Last weekend, New Delhi secured a waiver from the Vienna-based Nuclear Suppliers Group, which controls global atomic commerce, to buy nuclear power plants, technology and fuel to power its economic growth. Related Links Learn about nuclear weapons doctrine and defense at SpaceWar.com Learn about missile defense at SpaceWar.com All about missiles at SpaceWar.com Learn about the Superpowers of the 21st Century at SpaceWar.com
Commentary: Disturbed nukes?
Washington (UPI) Aug 27, 2008 Coalition politics is "always a messy process," said Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, as he explained the helter-skelter confusion that followed the exit of strongman Pervez Musharraf. After nine years of unchallenged power, Musharraf had taken a leaf from France's late President Charles de Gaulle's playbook, which held "the graveyards of the world are full of indispensable people," and he got out of Dodge ahead of the impeachment posse of political vigilantes out to depose him. |
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