In Libya, containers containing around 2.5 tonnes of natural uranium, reported by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to have disappeared from a site in Libya, have been found, an official announced today. general of the armed forces of the Libyan eastern camp led by Khalifa Haftar. He indicated, with video support, that the containers had been found at ” five kilometers barely from the site where they were stored in southern Libya.
General Khaled al-Mahjoub, commander of the communication directorate of the forces of the strongman of eastern Libya, announced that he had the quantity of uranium after having found it, in an area under the control of Marshal Haftar.
In the video accompanying his statement, we see a man in a protective suit counting the abandoned barrels, in the open air, somewhere in the Libyan desert, not far, it seems, from the site where they were locked up .
The general indicates that the one who took them did not know their usefulness and did not realize their dangerousness before abandoning them on the spot.
Indeed, the barrels are in an advanced state of deterioration, but fortunately the natural uranium emits little radiation.
The general of the ANL engages the responsibility of the IAEA, in this business by affirming that it proposed the guard of the site, but that it did not receive the material of protection necessary to be able to do it.
The Gaddafi regime had launched a nuclear program in the 1980s which it decided to abandon in 2004, for fear of the Americans following the invasion of Iraq, falsely accused at the time of possessing weapons of mass destruction.
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