Brits: FARC sought uranium in Bucharest Meeting with crime network uncovered

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March 06, 2008

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LONDON – Foreign intelligence agents for Britain have established that Raul Reyes, who commanded the narco-revolutionary group FARC but was killed in a recent bombing raid at his headquarters in Ecuador, made a secret visit to a suspected crime ring in Bucharest, Romania's capital, to negotiate the purchase of sufficient uranium to build a dirty bomb.

An expert at Britain's Atomic Energy Centre at Harwell confirmed: "A dirty bomb is a highly lethal weapon. While not having the same massive impact as a full kiloton explosion, it is relatively easy to construct and its detonation would cause real damage and even greater panic."

Led by Bucharest's Semyon Yukovich Mogilevich, who is described by the Home Office as "one of the most dangerous criminals in the world" and has "arrest on sight" warrants issued by the United States and several European countries, the Rising Sun's staple businesses are prostitution, drug-running and traffic in humans.

And since the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Rising Sun has developed what an MI6 report calls "a working relationship with al-Qaida." The Osama bin Laden organization is known to have established "a presence in Venezuela and other South American countries run by the populist Left, who oppose the United States." says the report.

It was the connection between al-Qaida and the Rising Sun which alerted MI6 officers stationed in Bucharest that FARC was prepared to buy "a substantial amount of uranium suitable to make a dirty bomb," confirmed a London intelligence source.

Using an alias and a Venezuelan passport, Reyes arrived in Bucharest in mid-January to meet with a senior member of the Rising Sun.

That group has been linked by MI6 and several other European intelligence services to involvement in the theft of enriched uranium stolen from one of Russia's poorly guarded stockpiles.

Some of the material has been traced as missing from a nuclear storage site at Chelyanbik-70, deep in the Ural Mountains.

Scientists at the European Transuranium Institute in Karsruhr in Germany, who are responsible for tracking all such material for the European Union, believe there has been a "significant increase in the traffic of secret fissionable material in the past six months."

British agents also say they are satisfied Raul Reyes' ambitions for a FARC dirty bomb targeted Colombia's president, Alvaro Uribe, a close ally of both Britain and the United States.