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Japanese Yakuza leader admits trying to sell nuclear material to DEA agents posing as Iranian generals
(www.middleeasteye.net)
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this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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Did they like... have him pose for a picture?
Sometimes when you play a yakuza game it’s like “man these plotlines are ridiculous”
maybe not so much
This is GTA levels of ridiculous characters.
Have you never played a Yakuza game? They blow GTA out of the water in terms of ridiculousness.
Least shocking thing I've ever heard, we've been scared of Russia loosey goosey rotting nuclear security forever.
Edit: estimated remaining 20,400 Yakuza members is more than I expected.
Didn't realize you can get high on nuclear materials. Tf is the DEA doin?
Department Energie Atomic.
The article says they were purchasing these items in exchange for shipments of heroin and methamphetamine.
ENTRAPMENT! ENTRAPMENT! /s
No shit. This sounds like the DEA overstepping its bounds.
RTFA
Drugs were supposed to be payment for the nuclear material, which is why it makes sense.
But none of this had to do with America?
The article says the drugs were being sent to the US.
You don't think Americans have business meddling between two completely separate sovereign countries? What are you some sort traitor?
/s
Wait, what? Article says the guy had real plutonium. That is scary. Quantity is not specified though. Also doesn't say where the plutonium came from. He also had a bunch of what sounds like non-fissionable uranium and thorium. They hype that up some, but it is less of a threat.
Why is this on /nottheonion?
The nuclear materials make the headline, but the real story is that they were trading it for meth and heroine.
I want to know how they got the nuke stuff in the first place. That's potentially much more disruptive than any number of drug deals.
How's Russian border security?
TBH I disagree, I think the Heroine and Meth are worse. I could elaborate but I feel like it would take a while.
There's only a few places in the world you can get plutonium, none of them easy to access or extract.
There's gotta be more to this story that's probably super classified.
Why is this on /nottheonion?
Because the title made me think of The Onion.
* Replying from my LW alt as there is still some federation lag between LW and the instance I posted from.
Did he promise to build Libyan Nationalists a bomb and use it for his experiments instead?
That's heavy
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