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27
Afghanistan Scam
Specimens
27.1 BACKGROUND AND QUESTIONED SPECIMENS
The trafcking of nuclear hoax items was introduced in Section 1.7. Of the ve
p
ersistent
r
egional
s
cams,
r
ecovered
A
fghan
o
bjects
h
ave
b
een
r
esurgent
o
f
l
ate,
d
ue
i
n
p
art
t
o
t
he
p
resence
o
f
a
llied
f
orces
i
n
A
fghanistan
f
or
O
peration
E
nduring
F
reedom.
S
ince
t
he
m
id-1990s,
n
uclear
s
muggling
i
ncidents
i
n
b
oth
A
fghanistan
a
nd
P
akistan
h
ave
d
isplayed
a
r
egular
t
heme
t
hat
h
as
b
een
l
abeled
t
he
“
Afghanistan
uranium scam.”
This
s
cam
v
ariation
a
ttempts
t
o
s
ell
m
aterials,
a
dvertised
a
s
h
ighly
e
nriched
u
ra-
nium
(
HEU),
t
hat
a
re
c
laimed
t
o
h
ave
b
een
a
bandoned
b
y
R
ussian