{"id":1398,"date":"2008-03-27T08:17:54","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T12:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2008-03-27T08:17:54","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T12:17:54","slug":"colombia-discovers-farc-uranium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1398","title":{"rendered":"Colombia discovers FARC uranium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/172-rcntv_embedded_prod_affiliate_56.jpg\" title=\"172-rcntv_embedded_prod_affiliate_56.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/172-rcntv_embedded_prod_affiliate_56.jpg\" alt=\"172-rcntv_embedded_prod_affiliate_56.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/854\/v-morephotos\/story\/471631.html\">Photo from Miami Herald<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Miami Herald writes that the Colmbian government has discovered a stash of &#8220;impoverished&#8221; (to quote the MH&#8217;s article) uranium;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Colombian authorities said they seized up to 66 pounds of low-grade uranium hidden off the side of a road in southern Bogot\u00e1 on Wednesday, which the Colombian Defense Ministry said belonged to FARC guerrillas.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Ministry said the discovery adds weight to the evidence found in a laptop belonging to slain guerrilla leader Ra\u00fal Reyes, which showed the rebels were interested in buying and selling the uranium on the international underground market.<\/p>\n<p>But the 30 kilograms of uranium found in plastic bags dug about three feet from a road in southern Bogot\u00e1 was &#8221;impoverished,&#8221; the ministry said, and in that state could not have been used to make a radioactive bomb. Authorities were waiting for further analysis to determine how dangerous the material found really is, Armed Forces commander Freddy Padilla told a news conference late Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, this at least lends credence to the quality of the intelligence that Colombia has gleaned from Raul Reyes&#8217; laptops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo from Miami Herald The Miami Herald writes that the Colmbian government has discovered a stash &hellip; <a title=\"Colombia discovers FARC uranium\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1398\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colombia discovers FARC uranium<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}