Daily Mail: Two Belgian nuclear power plant workers have joined ISIS leading to fears the jihadis have the intelligence to cause a meltdown disaster
* Two workers from a nuclear power plant in Doel fled to Syria to join ISIS
* One was 'killed in Syria' and another served time for terror offences in 2014
* Security guard at a Belgian nuclear research facility murdered in Charleroi
* Officials say killing is being treated as a criminal act rather than a terror act
* Nuclear power plants are known to be targets for the terror network behind the Brussels bombings
Belgian security services are fearful that ISIS operatives may have been looking to target a nuclear plant as it emerged two workers from a plant in Doel fled to Syria to join ISIS.
One of the men, reportedly known as Ilyass Boughalab, is believed to have been killed in Syria, while the second served a short prison sentence in Belgium for terror-related offences in 2014.
With an extensive understanding of nuclear facilities, the convict's short jail sentence has raised further questioned of the Belgian security services as well as fears he may have passed on important knowledge about the sites to the terrorist group.
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WNU Editor: This story gets better with each passing day .... The Islamic State’s Plot to Build a Radioactive ‘Dirty Bomb’ (Patrick Malone and R. Jeffrey Smith, Foreign Policy).
The "meme" being sold is B.S. of the highest order.
ReplyDeleteAnybody with a 1/4 of a brain doing basic research on a dirty bomb quickly figures out that the places to get the radiological materials are:
- specialist Medical and Industrial supply company's, where at the most, you would have to deal with a 70 year old night guard,
- or medical and industrial equiptment scrap yards, where the most you have to deal with is a chain link fence, and an underfed, unloved Rottie.
Jay .... what my GF hates the most .... an underfed and unloved Rottie.
ReplyDeleteWhen I lived in New Westminster, I learned that ex-security Rottie's were the most dangerous dogs in the dog park.
DeleteWhen you scrubbed their heads and they leaned in, you could feel every tendon in your knees start to give way, and if they recognized uou as you came through the gate, and came running to greet you, you could wind up with leg braces, crutches and cracked ribs for months, not to mention all the sticky slobber on your face, some of which never washed off.
If it was that easy they and every other despot would have it by now.
ReplyDeleteDirty bombs arn't that dangerous. They create more panic than casualties, and it's actually more about economic dislocation.
DeleteA dirty bomb on Wall Street wouldn't kill any significant numbers, but Wall Street, to keep operating after the clean up, would have to move to K Street, because the clean up would still leave residuals.
For despots, dirty bombs are a no go, because all the nuclear nations hold that a dirty bomb, is exactly the same as a nuclear bomb's use, so if a dirty bomb get's tied back to you, kiss your Capital City goodbye.
Jay ... the sticky slobber attack .... I have been a victim more than once. As for the GF .... too many to count, no broken bones but one time during a New Years Party she was dancing and he was eager to join her .... so he rushed to her and jumped on her. One of his toe nails did a gash on her head that resulted in 9 stitches (and a lot of blood). That ended the party quick. But it is quite a site to see a Rottie mortified with what he has done .... because he knows only too well that it was a big boo-boo.
ReplyDeleteI was once mobbed and slobbered on by 4 British Bulldog pups climbing over each other to get and give attention, while I was sitting on the ground.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Nuke plant I think they would be planning to blow it up once they were in and had amassed enough explosives. Probably not the only plant they have infiltrated either and not only in Brussels.
ReplyDeleteNuke plants are designed to contain a core meltdown or explosion.
DeleteIt would take hundreds of tons of explosives to "blow up" a nuke plant, -and create a massive radiological event,
but very little explosives to cause massive damage and shut it down.
If terror is the goal merely penetrating the security is successful in the minds of many. Actually blowing something up in a nuke plant even if it is only a storage tank would be devastating to hearts and minds of the local population. Maybe they need tons of the stuff maybe not but remember the towers were designed to survive a 707 impact at 600 MPH which they didn't suggesting something more subversive. Being on the inside could provide a way around the structural security. Remember the problems caused in Fukushima. Once the damage is done the world would find out all about the shortcomings of the security and structural theoretics by which time all such plants would become suspect.
ReplyDeleteFukishima was hit with a 9.0 earthquake, then a 50 foot tsunami, and survived undamaged.
DeleteWhat "hosed" Fukishima was the loss of all internal and external electrical power, and the inability of TEPCO to get the on site backup generators running, or external generators or external electrical power onto the site.
Inability to clear the flooding, created a build up of hydrogen gas, which exploded, breaching the containment.
Yes for Fukushima things that shouldn't have happened, happened and extended the problem. Whether the plant is destroyed or not isn't the issue. The issue is how people will see the threat and react, most likely badly, which is the goal of terrorists and as we are seeing they were already in.
ReplyDeleteWhile the purpose of terrorism is to terrorize,
DeleteSo is the purpose of the MSM and these leaks, to terrorize.
Like I said upthread, if you want to build a dirty bomb, a nuke plant is the last place to go, and the "claimed" two workers, if they were at all educated, would know that.
As the TEPCO cases show, it's common practice in the Nuclear Industry, to use uneducated, vulnerable low grade employeee's to do dangerous tasks, because they don't know the required Worker Protections, the limits of exposure, their legal rights, and if they cause trouble for the Corporation, they are disposable.