OTTAWA (CP) - The federal agency entrusted with tracking radioactive devices that could be used in a terrorist attack provided three different numbers over two weeks when asked how many missing instruments are still out there.
The confusion raises questions about how closely the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is keeping tabs on potentially dangerous tools, several of which experts say could be used to make a dirty bomb. The commission initially said it knew of just one wayward device in the last few years.
After being challenged, the number climbed days later to 27 since 2002.
The commission now says 40 gauges, medical tools and other radioactive devices lost in the last five years are still missing.
Some of it was stolen in Montreal, the North American city with the highest number of Islamic sleeper agents.
Oh, shit.
