(Reuters/CNN) British police said they had arrested four men who tried to buy explosives for a dirty bomb. News of the World newspaper said a Saudi Arabian was prepared to pay 300,000 pounds ($540,600) for a kilogram of "red mercury," a mysterious radioactive substance rumored to have been developed by Russian scientists during the Cold War.
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