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Belgian police find video of nuclear official at home of jihad terror suspect

Feb 18, 2016 10:44 am By Robert Spencer

“A person close to the investigation, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the footage indicated that a terrorist network involved in the coordinated attacks on Nov. 13 that left 130 dead may also have intended to obtain radioactive material for terrorist purposes.” And they’re still trying. But note that there is no indication in this New York Times story (aside from the name of one of the Paris plotters, Mohamed Bakkali) until the very last paragraph about exactly what kind of terrorism is involved here. This article is just another example of the ongoing mainstream media efforts to obfuscate and downplay the jihad terror threat. If World War II had been reported this way, we would have been getting stories during the Battle of the Bulge about how groups of armed German men, one named Hans, were attempting to break through to Antwerp. Then in the last paragraph it would tell us they were linked to Nazism.

Thierry Werts

“Belgian Police Find Video of Nuclear Official at Home of Terrorism Suspect,” by Milan Schreuer and Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, February 18, 2016:

PARIS — The police in Belgium have retrieved 10 hours of video footage of a Belgian nuclear official from the home of a suspect in the November Paris attacks, Thierry Werts, a spokesman for Belgium’s federal prosecutor, said on Thursday.

A person close to the investigation, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the footage indicated that a terrorist network involved in the coordinated attacks on Nov. 13 that left 130 dead may also have intended to obtain radioactive material for terrorist purposes.

The purpose of the footage is not clear, but one theory is that it could have been used to plan an abduction of the official and to obtain radioactive material by force, possibly for use in a dirty bomb.

The Belgian news media, citing sources close to the investigation, said that the videotape had been retrieved from the home of Mohamed Bakkali, who was arrested after the attacks and who is in detention on charges of participation in terrorist acts….

The high-ranking nuclear official who was filmed worked at the research site in Mol, where large quantities of radioactive waste from nuclear energy plants and hospitals are stored, he said. The authorities did not identify the official….

“If they find a way to spread such material among the population, they could do a lot of damage,” he said of the terrorist network, which was linked to the Islamic State. “Anything is possible; it is only up to them to come up with such evil ideas.”

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Feb 18, 2016 at 11:29 am

    The Fruits of Appeasement.
    Failure to address the reality of Islam will reap a nuclear dirty bomb or worse.

    Wringing our hands (in the West) and continually asking ourselves whatever could we have done to upset the temper tantrum tossing Muslims only feeds their undeserved grievance mongering sense of special entitlement. It is like giving a crack cocaine addict a brand new crack pipe in hope of a change in behavior.

    Show the world Islam. Then rub Muslims noses in its stench.

    • Mark Swan says

      Feb 18, 2016 at 5:51 pm

      Jay Boo…if you would…read This it’s short…give Me Your take on it.

      http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7214/electro-magnetic-pulse-emp

  2. WorkingClassPost says

    Feb 18, 2016 at 11:49 am

    I feel a cartoon coming on.

    On of those muzzie friendly ones, with a big mushroom cloud and a neat red line through it.

    No, hang on a minute, don’t they want Armagedon, isn’t the End of Days one of their stated objectives?

    If only someone would start a website that explained jihad to the world…

  3. Angemon says

    Feb 18, 2016 at 1:53 pm

    “If they find a way to spread such material among the population, they could do a lot of damage,” he said of the terrorist network, which was linked to the Islamic State. “Anything is possible; it is only up to them to come up with such evil ideas.”

    No, it should be up to law enforcement as well. “Are we prepared to deal with a dirt bomb? Can we find out if someone working in a nuclear plant tries to supply terrorists with radioactive material?”

    • umbra says

      Feb 18, 2016 at 6:14 pm

      There is monitoring and other safeguards to keep nuclear materials secure. Highly radioactive nuclides will likely have multiple redundant safeguards – meaning, it will require coordinated efforts from multiple individuals working in the right place at the right time to steal them. The problem isn’t with “finding out when someone steals or plans to steal nuclear material”, it is what to do when such a plot has been discovered.

      Even if theft alerts have been triggered, there is no guarantee that effective efforts can be made to eliminate the problems completely. DHS isn’t exactly competent when it comes to addressing islamic terrorism while the FBI is having problems trying to crack a cell phone. The CIA is run by brennan. On top of all that, there is obama who has the NSA, the pentagon, the DOE, etc, right under his thumb.

      • underbed cat says

        Feb 18, 2016 at 9:47 pm

        umbra says, …I agree with your description of the deadly dilemma,.”there is no guarantee that effective efforts can be made to eliminate the problems completely”, that of radioactive material getting into the wrong hands. These are the very things that I think about that I often feel panic, as a citizen in a country that currently has the enemy in the house….and at the controls. Thanks to the successful placement of the mb agenda of deception and push for diversity, I would imagine we could have potential terrorists operating in nuclear power plants, and in every state…or storage facility….it is like a dream where you try to run, and your feet are stuck in mud.

        Apple may be in a bad place, due to the techie hiring they have done in the name of diversity, without understanding the big picture. The big picture is there is an ideology that has moved in land appearing piously harmless but it is malignant cells.spreading it’s tentacles undetected and morphing into various locations causing weakness.

        God bless the FBI director and the efforts he is making.

  4. mortimer says

    Feb 18, 2016 at 3:32 pm

    Mohamed Bakkali was planning to make a weapon of mass destruction. Mohamed Bakkali was a Muslim terrorist.

    It would only take a few Muslim terrorists and a little effort to kill thousands. This is the lesson of 9-11.

    Why take the risk of bringing Muslims into Western countries, then? They have countries to live in with Sharia law enforced and dictatorship as much as any Muslim can stand. If Sharia is so wonderful, NO MOHAMMEDAN has a reason to leave a Sharia country.

    Let them stay in their Islamic ‘paradises’. The rest of the world does not wish for Sharia anything.

  5. rara says

    Feb 18, 2016 at 5:16 pm

    According to the Belgian news, the “high-ranking Belgian nuclear official” spied by the Islamic terrorists is

    “none other than … the director of the research program and Belgian nuclear development in person!”

    http://www.dhnet.be/actu/belgique/exclusif-les-kamikazes-des-attentats-de-paris-visaient-nos-centrales-nucleaires-56c392303570b1fc1130638b

  6. Mark Swan says

    Feb 18, 2016 at 5:56 pm

    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7214/electro-magnetic-pulse-emp

    Here is something they might very well accomplish !

    • Helen Hesketh says

      Feb 19, 2016 at 1:42 pm

      This is very disturbing.

  7. Donovan Nuera says

    Feb 18, 2016 at 9:39 pm

    Can someone please leave stacks of that Polish newsweeklie with the “Rape of Europa” on the cover at the Brussels HQ of the EU in their lobby? Thank you.

  8. Keys says

    Feb 19, 2016 at 5:32 pm

    10 hours of video footage of one guy!

    Obviously, just a coincidence; or a maybe a case of stalking. Let’s wait a few months for a statement from the mayor or chief of police after thorough investigations and probes before we jump to any conclusions. Let’s not be irrational phobes, OK? Needled Geiger counters can be brought out in plenty of time.

  9. underbed cat says

    Feb 20, 2016 at 5:39 pm

    Could it be that isis may have their own satellites, or is borrowing one, to get such video undetected….or maybe they have a mb operative in the right place.?? Could they hook into something like a tv satellite? Just curious since I sometimes get weird brief images, tv and computer…sometimes even sound.

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