Kaplony
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Brussels attacks: Bombers filmed nuclear researcher, expert says
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/brussels-atta...m_fb_msnbc
Quote:The brothers behind this week’s Brussels bombings also spied on a top nuclear researcher and hoped to build a so-called “dirty bomb,” an expert involved in a probe into ISIS threats told NBC News on Thursday.
Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui were responsible for planting a hidden camera outside the Belgian researcher’s house, according to Claude Moniquet, a French former intelligence official who was hired to investigate potential plots targeting Europe’s nuclear sector.
This camera produced more than 10 hours of film showing the comings and goings of senior researcher at a Belgian nuclear center and his family — footage that was seized during a Belgian raid in November, officials announced last month.
Quote:“The terrorist cell … naively believed they could use him to penetrate a lab to obtain nuclear material to make a dirty bomb,” he said.
While the plot “did not happen” the investigation confirmed that it was the el Bakraoui brothers who “put a camera in front of the house to take the images.”
Following Tuesday’s attacks in Brussels, extra troops were deployed at Belgium’s Doel and Tihange nuclear plants and all non-essential staff were allowed to go home.
These facilities would be operating at this level of reduced staffing for the foreseeable future to ensure no unauthorized personnel could gain access, a spokesman for Belgium’s Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC) told Reuters on Tuesday.
Experts believe the brothers spied on the researcher, who has not been identified for his own safety, and planned to blackmail him to acquire dangerous material.
“We can imagine that the terrorists might want to kidnap someone or kidnap his family,” Nele Scheerlinck, a spokeswoman for FANC, said in February after the footage was first revealed.
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RE: Brussels attacks: Bombers filmed nuclear researcher, expert says
I guess you could put this in the list of things that give one a warm and fuzzy feeling.
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