In yet another attempt to fray Western nerves, Russia has invented what it describes as an emerging Ukrainian dirty bomb plot. This latest invention attests both to the Kremlin’s expansive imagination and to its strategy to boost Western fears of escalation.
The latest invention?
Gen. Igor Kirillov, head of Russian anti-WMD forces, claims that “operational information” shows that “radiochemical substances continue to be imported into Ukraine … through Poland and Romania.” He insists that the “organizational, logistics and financial issues are personally supervised by the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Andrey Ermak.” The general claims these substances could be used to make a “dirty bomb” (a conventional explosive laced with highly radioactive material) to be used in a “false flag” attack (an attack by Ukraine designed to appear as having been…
