Gov't Successfully Brought Radioactive Dirty Bomb Over Borders In Test, Security Failed...

USA Today Mimi Hall March 27, 2006 at 11:51 PM
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Undercover investigators bought radioactive ingredients needed to make a dirty bomb and drove them into the USA past border security agents, a government report said Monday.

The report by the Government Accountability Office, the watchdog arm of Congress, said that investigators put radioactive material in the trunks of cars and drove to Canadian and Mexican border checkpoints on Dec. 14, 2005. When Homeland Security radiation detectors went off, the investigators gave Customs and Border Protection agents fake government licenses and receipts.

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