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Leader of Japanese crime syndicate pleads guilty to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials to Iran (apnews.com)

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The purported leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges alleging that he conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in the belief that Iran would use it for nuclear weapons.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

What a crazy story... I was wondering why the DEA was involved until I got to the part about them trafficking heroin and meth into the US.

But I did not know that there were ethnic insurgent groups in Myanmar who are mining weapons-grade radioactive materials....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Based on documentaries I've watched on the situation in Myanmar, I had assumed it was the junta overseeing those mining operations. One of the insurgent forces having control and access to those materials is pretty wild.

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