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Colombia's intelligence agents
seize 13.5 kg of uranium
Intelligence agents have seized
13.5 kg of uranium here which
two Colombians attempted to sell
to armed rebel groups,
Colombia's intelligence chief
said on Thursday.
Brigadier General Gustavo
Matamoros Camacho said a man and
a woman who were smuggling the
radioactive material were
arrested inan industrial
neighborhood of the Colombian
capital Bogota on Feb.24.
The material was intended for
the highest bidder, and the two
suspects might have tried to
contact a Colombian rebel group,
saida spokeswoman for the
Attorney General's office. The
smugglers valued the material at
315 million U.S. dollars.
However, the uranium is depleted
and unusable for either making a
nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb,
mining ministry officials said.
The two suspects have been
released on bail, but they are
still being investigated and if
convicted they could face up to
six years in jail.
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