Stolen radioactive truck recovered By NICKI THOMAS, SUN MEDIA http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2008/02/05/pf-4828007.html
A stolen truck carrying dangerous radioactive cargo has been recovered in Edmonton. On Saturday, an unlocked F350 containing radioactive material used in seismic work was swiped when it was left running outside a hotel in Fort McMurray. Police in Edmonton found the truck around 3:30 a.m. yesterday and summoned safety crews to the scene, who determined that the radioactive material had not been tampered with, according to Fort McMurray RCMP. Police are still investigating but no arrests have been made so far. This isn't the first time radioactive material has gone missing in Alberta. Last October, a $5,000 moisture probe containing a small amount of radioactive Americium - a material found in household smoke detectors - was lifted from a truck downtown. In July 2005, a truck carrying a container of radioactive material was stolen from a radiographics inspection company in Alberta Beach. Its driver later slammed the truck into a power pole, sending the container flying into a cabin. Tests concluded that no radioactive material leaked out. In Feb. 2003, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission assured the public that an X-ray device nabbed from a Jeep in Mill Woods posed no health risk. "It's comparable to the natural background radiation all of us are exposed to every day. It could not cause harm to a body," spokesman Michel Cleroux said at the time. And in June 2003, a stolen barrel full of radioactive material led Red Deer Mounties to uncover a major theft ring. During an investigation into the theft, police searched two homes where they turned up thousands of dollars in stolen goods and drugs. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with "Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of "Fair Use" was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. "Fair Use" legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include "criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research." Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a "fair use". A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of "fair use". Rather, "fair use" is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
