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Friday, April 23, 2010

Georgia Confirms Highly Enriched Uranium Seizure

Georgia's president said his country had seized a shipment of highly enriched uranium, blaming Russia for creating the instability that allows nuclear smugglers to operate in the region.

Russia dismissed the claims Thursday and said Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili's comments were "unsubstantiated" and amounted to propaganda.

Saakashvili gave few details of the seizure during an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press, saying only that the uranium was intercepted last month coming into his country in the Caucasus region of southeast Europe.'

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The interesting points are that the seizure happened last month and is only now being made public, just in time to deflect the post nuclear summit attention away from Israel. Then there is the fact that the exact amounts and degree of enrichment are not reported. Note that the nationalities of the "foreign nationals" are not disclosed, and when you couple that with the photograph of Iranian technicians used to illustrate the story and intended to create a link to Iran that is not supported by the story itself, and this reeks of being a staged event to hype "nuclear threat" ahead of a possible false flag attack to kick off WW3.

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