Al-Qaida tours nuke site

"Two al-Qaida operatives visited the world's most accessible nuclear facility, where more than two tons of highly enriched uranium and weapons-grade plutonium are store behind a rusty bard-wire fence protected by a handful of guards with light weapons, MI6 agents have learned.

An intelligence report described the facility as 'the dream target for terrorists.' The view is shared by Michael Durst, a senior manager at the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency.

'The site is top of our global priority list of unsecured uranium sources,' said Durst. 'At present it is easily accessible to an organized attack.'

Once a jewel in the former Soviet arsenal, the National Science Institute at Vinca, 10 miles south of the Serbian capital, Belgrade, was closed in 1984 and its reactor switched off. Since then the 48-acre site has steadily fallen into decay."

Source: G2 Bulletin