NUCLEAR FEAR IN BELGIUM – AT 12:18 P.M. ET: Whenever there's a terrorist attack, the presumed experts begin to project ahead. What if the terrorists had nuclear materials? Or chemical gases? Or biological weapons? There is real fear in Belgium that ISIS is targeting nuclear facilities. From London's Daily Mail:
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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Sebastien Berg, spokesman for the federal agency responsible for Belgium's nuclear industry said they were fearful of a bomb exploding inside a plant or terrorists conducting a 9/11-style attack using a hijacked aircraft.
Nuclear power plants are known to be targets for the terror network behind the Brussels bombings and the Paris attacks in November.
According to the New York Times, several employees working in the Belgian nuclear industry have had their security clearances revoked over potential ISIS plots.
Following last November's terror attack in Paris, Belgian police recovered surveillance footage of a senior nuclear official in the home of ISIS ringleader Mohamed Bakkali, who was arrested and is currently facing terrorism charges.
COMMENT: Talk about scary. Field Marshal Obama assures us that we're safe, that more people are killed by ping pong balls or chocolate-chip cookies, or something like that, than by terror.
But if a nuclear plant is successfully attacked, and radiation spews over a city, even Obama might have to revise his remarks, or shorten his tango.
March 27, 2016 |