Douglas Douglas Farah, an investigative journalist and terrorism expert, blogged about a Sunday Times (UK) story showing that a shipment of uranium-238 had been intercepted in Tanzania en route to Iran in October 2005. The U-238 was reportedly concealed in a shipment of coltan, a material that is used in the manufacture of chips for cell phones. The Times story said the July UN report found “a huge shipment of smuggled uranium 238.” A Tanzanian customs official contacted by the Times further explained “When we opened the container it was full of drums of coltan. Each drum contains about 50kg of ore. When the first and second rows were removed,the ones after that were found to be drums of uranium.”
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