I can’t confirm this story, and it’s from a source I don’t recognize, but it seems worth mentioning:
FBI agents in cooperation with Albanian authorities are investigating eventual smuggling of radioactive material deemed to have been planned for using in terrorist attacks across Europe.
Citing sources from the Prosecution Office, the Albanian media reported there are grounds for suspicions that 170 kilograms of radioactive material was brought in the country.
According to the same sources, the illegal shipment was planned to serve for the purposes of carrying out terrorist attacks in Western Europe.
If it’s true thats enough material for large number of dirty bombs. Albania was recently selected as the release point for some Gitmo detainees:
Three detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison for terrorist suspects have been released to Albania, after authorities determined they were no longer “enemy combatants,” officials said Friday.
The State Department announced that the Albanian government agreed to accept an Algerian national, an Egyptian national and an ethnic Uzbek who was born in the former Soviet Union. Their names were not released.
Lonely Planet provides some interesting demographic data:
Sunni Muslim (50%), Bektashi Muslim (20%), Albanian Orthodox (20%), Roman Catholic (10%)
Related:
Wikipedia – Albania
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