From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 11:18:59 EDT
UZBEK SPECIALISTS SAY CONTRABAND RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL NOT
WEAPONS-GRADE
Nuclear scientists in Tashkent said on 3 April
that the 10 containers of radio-active material intercepted
on the Kazakh-Uzbek border four days earlier could not be
used to manufacture nuclear weapons, Interfax reported. The
materials were destined for Pakistan. RFE/RL's Almaty bureau reported that the
cargo
was loaded by a private Kazakh company in Shymkent, southern
Kazakhstan. LF
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