An update on this story. Regardless of the fact that "his work did not bring him into contact with anything that could be used for terrorism," it should be cause for alarm and further inquiry that al-Qaeda has friends in such high places in the scientific community. "France charges nuclear scientist suspected of al Qaeda links," from Agence France-Presse, October 12:
AFP - French magistrates charged a nuclear scientist suspected of Al-Qaeda links with "membership of a terrorist group" on Monday, judicial officials said.
The 32-year-old engineer, who was studying the universe's birth -- the Big Bang -- at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), was arrested on Thursday last week by police intelligence.
He appeared Monday in front of an anti-terrorist magistrate in Paris to be placed under formal judicial investigation and was to hear later in the day whether he will remain in custody pending trial.
Officials said last week that investigators monitoring the Internet had intercepted contacts between him and Al-Qaeda's North African offshoot.
He had expressed a desire to carry out attacks, but had "not got to the stage of carrying out material acts of preparation".
The suspect's 25-year-old brother, who does not work at CERN, was also arrested last week but has since been released without charge.
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research operates one of the world's leading nuclear research laboratories attached to a 27 kilometre (15 mile) tunnel running under the Franco-Swiss border just outside Geneva.
In the tunnel, a particle accelerator attempts to recreate the sub-atomic conditions present at the time of the Big Bang.
The lab confirmed on Friday that a physicist working on the Large Hadron Collider had been arrested on "suspicion of links to terrorist organisations."
It added, however, that "he was not a CERN employee and performed his research under a contract with an outside institute. His work did not bring him into contact with anything that could be used for terrorism."
According to CERN's website, the suspect's experiment was "set up to explore what happened after the Big Bang that allowed matter to survive and build the universe we inhabit today."
Nevertheless, reports have suggested the arrest of a scientist with alleged Al-Qaeda ties will increase fears that the Islamist militant group is seeking weapons technology or planning to attack nuclear targets.
His work did not bring him into contact with anything that could be used for terrorism.
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OK, maybe not--in the sense of his being able to steal nuclear secrets or material.
But what about more run-of-the-mill terrorism--against the Hadron Collider, or some other facility that this Jihadist had access to? I imagine that could be quite destructive, all by itself.
However left France may or may not be...they seem to have at least as good a handle on intelligence as we do..how well they handle it is as iffy as .....
Well, it WAS the big bang theory that he was working on. Jihad and things that go "Bang" seem to go together.
Meanwhile yet another American Muslim has been caught trying to join the jihad in Somalia.
The infestation of colleges and universities in Europe, Canada and the United States by Muslims. The infestation. The nuclear technology developed mostly by Jews and friends of the Jewish people such as Enrico Fermi, an Italian, and Nils Bohr, a Dane, is now being transferred to the Muslims by today's degenerate West. A.Q. Khan was one beneficiary of this. The A.Q. Khan who developed the "Islamic Nuclear Bomb" for Pakistan and provided this technology to Iran. As a result, we are on the brink of nuclear terrorism. And how many more A.Q. Khans are now being trained in Europe and the US? How many of them will never be caught? Thousands. Tens of thousands. And they have all but taken over the campuses, aggressively pushing their rabidly anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic Islamo-Nazi politics there, lording over the locals who act as their abject subjects. What we have is a total triumph of the Global Jihad there, with the dastardly European and American academia serving as its local Quislings. The Islamo-Lords and the Quislings are united in suppressing free speach on campuses, intimidating and harrassing anyone who dares to express views not to their liking. The dastardly British College academia trade unions such as AUT wage relentless campaign to boycott all academics, professors and scientists whose only "crime" is being citizens of Israel, to boycott all institutions of learning in Israel, all educational exchanges with Israel. All this to please their Muslim masters. Israel is the bone stuck in the throat of the Global Jihad, for it is the one and only country that knows how to fight the jihadists. And this is because Israel is guided by its great ideology of Zionism. Europe and the United States have no guiding ideology. None. So the enemy fills the emptiness aggressively and brazenly moving in with his own Islamo-Nazi ideology. And he subjugates the West's gutless, disoriented people. And turns them into his slaves. And uses them as tools against Israel, his only obstacle to victory over entire Western civilization. If Israel goes, so does the Western world. But it just might so happen that the West's demise will come ahead of Israel's, for Israel has both the will and the skill to defend its way of life, and its liberty. The demoralized West has none. It is ripe for the taking. The jihadists are halfway there anyway, easlily infiltrating the Western societies at all levels through both stealth and open jihad, and turning Western populaces, starting with the elites, into their dhimmies.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
I think most of the JW readers now have been reading JW for a few years. I wonder how much longer must the cumulative effect of the ever-growing mountain -- or rather volcano -- of evidence about Islamic evil and danger last before the majority of JW readers simplify their outrage to:
D.A.M.N.
Deport All Muslims Now
If we never said another word other than those, that would be enough.
This is mere curiosity, but I'd like to know where this guy is from. Is he a convert? It's hard to imagine that somebody from the Islamic non-culture has the qualifications to work at CERN and study the Big Bang. As I mentioned here once, I read this book about cosmology, string theory, m-theory and the quest for the ultimate theory. The author named an awful lot of scientists from all over the world who contributed to these projects. But there was no Muslim among them.
This is OT: Kenan Kolat, the head of the Turkish community in Germany claims that no students in Germany should go to school on Islamic holidays, that would be a matter of tolerance, he sez. A potty gobshite, that's what he is.
What do the christians on this site fear more CERN discovering the God-particle or an Islamist militant group seeking weapons technology and planning to attack nuclear targets?
As an atheist I fear the latter.
I'm a Christian - I am, shall we say, quite worried about the prospect of Muslim jihad-plotters getting their claws on any kind of WMD.
We must wait for the day of his trial . We will see how the French justice handle the matter.
To Pismopal
The french intelligence has something more than the American.It is the cooperation of moderate Muslims.and they can be trusted. This is a very important factor in the battle against radical Islam.
The problem with "moderate" muslims is that they are still Muslims. Don't forget the practice of taquiyya and kittman.
France is in someways a funny country (something like Canada,Oh,sorry to my Canadian friends)) in that they play the neutrality card but defend themselves. They are still of use to America most of the time.