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maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Japanese Yakuza leader admits trying to sell nuclear material to DEA agents posing as Iranian generals

www.middleeasteye.net

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Japanese Yakuza leader admits trying to sell nuclear material to DEA agents posing as Iranian generals

www.middleeasteye.net

maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago
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Mafia leader caught in sting operation trying to sell weapons-grade nuclear material to man he believed was Iranian general
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  • quixotic120@lemmy.world
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    Sometimes when you play a yakuza game it’s like “man these plotlines are ridiculous”

    maybe not so much

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      This is GTA levels of ridiculous characters.

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        Have you never played a Yakuza game? They blow GTA out of the water in terms of ridiculousness.

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    Didn’t realize you can get high on nuclear materials. Tf is the DEA doin?

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      The article says they were purchasing these items in exchange for shipments of heroin and methamphetamine.

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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        ENTRAPMENT! ENTRAPMENT! /s

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        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.

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      No shit. This sounds like the DEA overstepping its bounds.

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        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
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        Drugs were supposed to be payment for the nuclear material, which is why it makes sense.

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          But none of this had to do with America?

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            The article says the drugs were being sent to the US.

      • Kbobabob@lemmy.world
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        RTFA

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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      Department Energie Atomic.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      It’s because people have been getting high on Power.

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    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?

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      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.

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      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.

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      The nuclear materials make the headline, but the real story is that they were trading it for meth and heroine.

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        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.

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          How’s Russian border security?

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          TBH I disagree, I think the Heroine and Meth are worse. I could elaborate but I feel like it would take a while.

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    Did he promise to build Libyan Nationalists a bomb and use it for his experiments instead?

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      That’s heavy

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      And that was how Rick and Morty was born

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        “Quick arms deal, 20 minutes, in and out.”

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    Did they like… have him pose for a picture?

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    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.

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    Your next existential breakdown has been sponsored by MadLibs…

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    Mad lad

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    He even looks like he’s from the Yakuza series

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    L/BrandNewSentence

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