maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agoJapanese Yakuza leader admits trying to sell nuclear material to DEA agents posing as Iranian generalswww.middleeasteye.netexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1289arrow-down10cross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1289arrow-down1external-linkJapanese Yakuza leader admits trying to sell nuclear material to DEA agents posing as Iranian generalswww.middleeasteye.netmaniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agomessage-square32fedilinkcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.ml
minus-squarePainInTheAES@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up46arrow-down1·21 hours agoDidn’t realize you can get high on nuclear materials. Tf is the DEA doin?
minus-squareAceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 hours agoIt’s because people have been getting high on Power.
minus-squareImplyingImplications@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down1·edit-218 hours agoThe article says they were purchasing these items in exchange for shipments of heroin and methamphetamine.
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoThe idea that there’s an amount of heroin that can be used to purchase weapons grade nuclear materials concerns me even though I know it’s just a high value illegal commodity.
minus-squarefinitebanjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·12 hours agoENTRAPMENT! ENTRAPMENT! /s
minus-squareP03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down2·21 hours agoNo shit. This sounds like the DEA overstepping its bounds.
minus-squaredev_null@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·12 hours agoDrugs were supposed to be payment for the nuclear material, which is why it makes sense.
minus-squareScoopMcPoops@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·9 hours agoBut none of this had to do with America?
minus-squaredev_null@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 hours agoThe article says the drugs were being sent to the US.
minus-squareShepherdPie@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-214 hours agoYou don’t think Americans have business meddling between two completely separate sovereign countries? What are you some sort traitor? /s
Didn’t realize you can get high on nuclear materials. Tf is the DEA doin?
It’s because people have been getting high on Power.
Department Energie Atomic.
The article says they were purchasing these items in exchange for shipments of heroin and methamphetamine.
The idea that there’s an amount of heroin that can be used to purchase weapons grade nuclear materials concerns me even though I know it’s just a high value illegal commodity.
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