8mo ago

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

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8mo ago

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

www.middleeasteye.net /news/japanese-yakuza-leader-admits-trying-sell-nuclear-material-dea-agents-iranian-generals

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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.
Didn't realize you can get high on nuclear materials. Tf is the DEA doin?
- The article says they were purchasing these items in exchange for shipments of heroin and methamphetamine.
  
  ENTRAPMENT! ENTRAPMENT! /s
  
  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.
- No shit. This sounds like the DEA overstepping its bounds.
  
  You don't think Americans have business meddling between two completely separate sovereign countries? What are you some sort traitor?
  /s
  
  RTFA
  
  Drugs were supposed to be payment for the nuclear material, which is why it makes sense.
- It's because people have been getting high on Power.
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?
- 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.
- 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.
Did he promise to build Libyan Nationalists a bomb and use it for his experiments instead?
- That's heavy
- And that was how Rick and Morty was born
  
  “Quick arms deal, 20 minutes, in and out.”
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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