Brussels attacks: Nuclear alert after security officer found dead with his pass missing

Officials have cancelled the guard's pass amid fears that terrorists were planning a dirty bomb strike on a nuclear power facility. Follow all of today's developments on the Brussels terror attacks
A security officer at a Belgian nuclear plant has been found dead with his work pass stolen.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/12204863/Brussels-terro...

mothra wrote on Mar 26^th, 2016 at 9:07pm:



Racist! 

Setanta wrote on Mar 26^th, 2016 at 9:09pm:



Could be ... but that's trickier than i give them credit for generally.

Setanta wrote on Mar 26^th, 2016 at 9:13pm:



A hardened ideolocrat to be sure...

Have a look what else your friends have been up to jonny, are you going to try and blame someone else for this too?  ...





On Friday, the authorities stripped security badges from several workers at one of two plants where all nonessential employees had been sent home hours after the attacks at the Brussels airport and one of the city’s busiest subway stations three days earlier. Video footage of a top official at another Belgian nuclear facility was discovered last year in the apartment of a suspected militant linked to the extremists who unleashed the horror in Paris in November…


The revelation of the video surveillance footage was the first evidence that the Islamic State has a focused interest in nuclear material. But Belgium’s nuclear facilities have long had a worrying track record of breaches, prompting warnings from Washington and other foreign capitals.

Some of these are relatively minor: The Belgian nuclear agency’s computer system was hacked this year and shut down briefly…

Others are far more disconcerting. In 2012, two employees at the nuclear plant in Doel quit to join jihadists in Syria, and eventually transferred their allegiances to the Islamic State. Both men fought in a brigade that included dozens of Belgians, including Abdelhamid Abaaoud, considered the on-the-ground leader of the Paris attacks…

At the same plant where these jihadists once worked, an individual who has yet to be identified walked into the reactor No. 4 in 2014, turned a valve and drained 65,000 liters of oil used to lubricate the turbines.... The damage was so severe that the reactor was out of commission for five months.

Investigators are now looking into possible links between that case and terrorist groups, although they caution that it could also have been the work of an insider with a workplace grudge…

Three men linked to the surveillance video were involved in either the Paris or the Brussels attacks.

Ibrahim and Khalid el-Bakraoui, the brothers who the authorities say were suicide bombers at the Brussels airport and subway station, are believed to have driven to the surveilled scientist’s home and removed a camera that was hidden in nearby bushes. The authorities believe they then took it to a house connected to Mohammed Bakkali, who was arrested by the Belgian police after the Paris attacks and is accused of helping with logistics and planning. The police found the videocamera during a raid on the house.

I don't know why these nutjob Syrians, Iraq's and other sand darkies from that part of the world have a beef with Belgium. Belgium  wasn't even involved in the Iraq war. That blows that theory out the window.

... wrote on Mar 27^th, 2016 at 12:05pm:



who said that? Jihadists sniffing around nuclear plants is a big concern for everyone. If true, the Belgium govt. needs to tighten up it's security