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Islamic State looking for nuclear materials in Belgium, report
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) terrorist group appears to have been looking for nuclear materials in Belgium to build radioactive ‘dirty bomb’, the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington reports. A small video camera stashed in a row of bushes silently recorded the comings and goings of the family of a Brussels-area man with an important scientific pedigree last year, producing a detailed chronology of the family’s movements. At one point, two men came under cover of darkness to retrieve the camera, before driving away with their headlamps off, a separate surveillance camera in the area revealed later. The Belgian police discovered the secret film on Nov. 30 while searching the Auvelais home of a man with ties to the Islamic State terror group. But they became far more alarmed when they figured out that its star was a senior researcher at a Belgian nuclear center that produces a significant portion of the world’s supply of radioisotopes. That realization quickly got the attention of the world’s counterterrorism experts. A diagnostic tool used by hospitals and factories around the globe, radioisotopes are also capable of causing radiation poisoning and sickness, making them a potential target for Lions of Islam seeking to build a so-called "dirty" bomb that could contaminate the downtown area of a major city, sowing panic and causing billions of dollars in financial losses. Belgian authorities have since speculated that the group was trying to figure out a way to collect such materials from the nuclear center, perhaps by kidnapping the man or one of his family members as the first step in building a bomb. Posted by: Fred 2016-03-03 |
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