WikiLeaks: Yemen radioactive security so poor, material could fall into wrong hands

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UK Telegraph:

Security at Yemen's main radioactive material storage facility was so lax, that the one guard on duty had been removed, while its only security camera had been broken for six months, according a leaked US embassy cable.

A senior Yemeni government official warned US diplomats that the security at the facility, which held radioactive material used by hospitals and universities for research, was so poor that it could fall into the wrong hands and potentially be used to make a "dirty" bomb.

The cable, released by WikiLeaks, dated January 9 this year and classified as secret, was sent around two weeks after the failed Christmas Day bomb plot when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian radicalised in Yemen, tried to bring down a plane over Detroit. In the days following the warning, the material was moved to a more secure facility.

Sent from the Sana'a embassy to various US agencies including the CIA and the department of homeland security, the cable warns that "Very little now stands between the bad guys and Yemen's nuclear material".

Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world and, for several years, there has been concern that it had become a stronghold of terrorism. It is home to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a group beyhind a number of attacks on western targets, including the recent ink cartridge bomb plot discovered at East Midlands Airport.
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