GEORGIA: ARMENIANS DETAINED TRYING TO CROSS INTO TURKEY WITH RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCE
International Herald Tribune, France
The Associated Press
Oct 26 2007
TBILISI, Georgia: Georgian border guards detained four Armenians
attempting to cross into Turkey this week with just over 2 grams
(less than an ounce) of a radioactive substance, the former Soviet
republic’s border police service said Friday.
The Armenians were detained at a border crossing into eastern Turkey
on Wednesday with the substance in a special container, the border
police said in a statement.
It identified the substance as an isotope called Lovresium, or LAV-103,
but no reference to such an isotope could immediately be found.
Georgian authorities were attempting to determine where the detainees
got the substance and what they were planning to do with it, border
police spokeswoman Lela Mchedladze said.