Interpol launches campaign against dirty bombs
News, 08-04-2012Interpol has information that terrorists may use so-called radioactive dispersion devices or dirty bombs, said Aysu Okano, representative of the Department of Public Safety and Terrorism Interpol's international meeting in Domodedovo near Moscow, ITAR-TASS. The meeting was attended by over 400 international experts on terrorism. For this reason, Interpol performs special project codenamed "Geiger" for "collecting and analyzing information about transportation and other illegal activities in nuclear and radioactive materials" Okano told Aysu. The project was started in 2005 with financial support from the Ministry of Energy and the U.
S. National Laboratory of the U. S. , which is engaged in research in domestic and national security, counterterrorism, energy and environment. According Aysu Okano Eastern Europe is the main area where "there go where radioactive materials. It is in this area have revealed many attempts to sell radioactive material - 50". The main channel for carrying radioactive materials, according to Interpol agent passes through Georgia, the largest number of attempted transactions were registered in Ukraine.
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