  The truck has been found by authorities      Cobalt-60 is most
often used in hospital radiotherapy machines.  Source: NPR
Comments     Threshold   RE: so will everyone By Amedean on
12/6/2013 2:25:19 AM , Rating: 4 This conversation brings back
old memories in my Army days when I was a infantry paratrooper
in the 82d Airborne.  Back in 2003 little known but I was part
of a detachment on a mission here:  because we had to recover a
larger than a baseball bat sized rod of Cobalt 60. Below that
small town was the former Iraqi Army chemical weapons school and
depot where an unknowing villager was paid by Al-Qaeda to drag
that rod to his home.  I imagine the original intention was to
make a dirty bomb.... needless to say America's finest including
myself had to knowingly guard this exposed rod with all the
understanding that we may all die of cancer in a few years.  Had
a small lump on my scalp ever since but it is non-malignant. One
guy in my company got breast cancer and another a tumor on one
testicle. Eithe