Japanese Yakuza leader admits trying to sell nuclear material to DEA agents posing as Iranian generals
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/japanese-yakuza-leader-admits-trying-sell-nuclear-material-dea-agents-iranian-generals
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quixotic120@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 1y
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
This is GTA levels of ridiculous characters.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 1y
Have you never played a Yakuza game? They blow GTA out of the water in terms of ridiculousness.
PainInTheAES@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 1y
Didn't realize you can get high on nuclear materials. Tf is the DEA doin?
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 1y
The article says they were purchasing these items in exchange for shipments of heroin and methamphetamine.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
ENTRAPMENT! ENTRAPMENT! /s
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
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.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 1y
No shit. This sounds like the DEA overstepping its bounds.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social · 10 pts · 1y
You don't think Americans have business meddling between two completely separate sovereign countries? What are you some sort traitor?
/s
dev_null@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 1y
Drugs were supposed to be payment for the nuclear material, which is why it makes sense.
ScoopMcPoops@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1y
But none of this had to do with America?
dev_null@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
The article says the drugs were being sent to the US.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
RTFA
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
Department Energie Atomic.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y
It's because people have been getting high on Power.
solrize@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 1y
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?
Gork@lemm.ee · 33 pts · 1y
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.
maniacalmanicmania@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
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.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
The nuclear materials make the headline, but the real story is that they were trading it for meth and heroine.
solrize@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
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.
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
How's Russian border security?
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 1y
TBH I disagree, I think the Heroine and Meth are worse. I could elaborate but I feel like it would take a while.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
Did he promise to build Libyan Nationalists a bomb and use it for his experiments instead?
dev_null@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y
That's heavy
jagged_circle@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 1y
And that was how Rick and Morty was born
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
“Quick arms deal, 20 minutes, in and out.”
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 1y
Did they like... have him pose for a picture?
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y
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.
Hux@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 1y
Your next existential breakdown has been sponsored by MadLibs…
Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Mad lad
MITM0@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
He even looks like he's from the Yakuza series
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
L/BrandNewSentence