FBI helped thwart nuclear smuggling plot in Moldova
October 08, 2015  03:30
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The FBI helped Moldovan authorities three times in the last five years to thwart potential smuggling of nuclear and radioactive material, a Moldovan interior minister said Wednesday.

The cases in the former Soviet republic involved sting operations, and no one from jihadi groups was involved, a U.S. law enforcement official familiar with the investigations said.

But officials were concerned that smugglers would try to sell to extremist groups such as ISIS, the U.S. source said, and the cases offer a glimpse at efforts to keep such materials -- which in some cases could be used for weapons -- from being sold on the black market.

The sting operations in the eastern European nation were first reported Tuesday by The Associated Press.

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