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Printer FriendlyTraining class instructs U.S. border
inspectors on weapons detection - photos
Release date: September 11, 2003
Contact: Staci Maloof
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| Customs agents use radiation
detectors to check a small sample of uranium during a
mock exercise in which the agents interviewed a suspicious
man trying to cross the border and searched his vehicle.
The uranium ingot was found hidden in an emergency light.
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| Using radiation detectors, Customs agents inspect the van driven by a man who acted suspicious when questioned during a border stop during a mock exercise put on as part of a 3-day training against weapons of mass destruction smuggling. The exercise simulated an actual seizure of radioactive material along the border of Bulgaria. Bulgarian border agents found the radioactive material after interviewing the smuggler, noticing that he acted strangely and finding suspicious paperwork in his vehicle. | Using radiation detectors, Customs agents inspect the van driven by a man who acted suspicious when questioned during a border stop during a mock exercise put on as part of a 3-day training against weapons of mass destruction smuggling. The exercise simulated an actual seizure of radioactive material along the border of Bulgaria. Bulgarian border agents found the radioactive material after interviewing the smuggler, noticing that he acted strangely and finding suspicious paperwork in his vehicle. |
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| Instructor Terry Conway explains to Customs agents participating in a 3-day class against weapons of mass destruction how smugglers had hidden small amounts of radioactive material in an emergency light when when crossing a Bulgarian border. The Bulgarian border agents found the radioactive material after interviewing the smuggler, noticing that he acted strangely and finding suspicious paperwork in his vehicle. | A Customs agent questions a man driving across a border in a mock exercise set up to imitate an actual seizure of radioactive material at a border crossing in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian border agents found the radioactive material after interviewing the smuggler, noticing that he acted strangely and finding suspicious paperwork in his vehicle. |
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