The International Report
by: Daniel Riehs
TRIPOLI, Libya—In a surprise move Tuesday, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi vowed to give up his country's extensive weapons-of-mass-destruction program. Though Libya has long had a reputation as a rouge state, the announcement came as a surprise to US intelligence officials.
"Libya's pretty much been off the radar since 1985," said Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, currently John E. McLaughlin at a press conference yesterday. "Around October of that year we started receiving reports about a certain Libyan terrorist group that had hired a California scientist to construct a nuclear device out of stolen plutonium. The bomb was never built, but we still weren't successful in recovering the plutonium."
McLaughlin then added, "No, come to think of it, we did get into the Libyans sometime last year when our file room was converted to digital records. Now it's real easy to skip to various parts of an investigation, and you can even see extra pieces of evidence that were deleted from initial reports."
Plutonium has the capability of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity.