Nuclear terrorismWorries in Belgium over ISIS dirty-bomb plot
Belgian security authorities say that it appears that ISIS-linked terrorists in the country have been planning to build a dirty nuclear bomb for use in a future terrorist attack. Growing concerns over security at nuclear plants have led to the revocation of security passes of eleven workers. A senior Belgian nuclear official was also secretly monitored by individuals linked to the 13 November Paris attacks.
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Belgian security authorities say that it appears that ISIS-linked terrorists in the country have been planning to build a dirty nuclear bomb for use in a future terrorist attack.
Growing concerns over security at nuclear plants have led to the revocation of security passes of eleven workers, the New YorkTimes reported. La Derniere Heurenewspaper reported earlier this year that a senior Belgian nuclear official was also secretly monitored by individuals linked to the 13 November Paris attacks. Belgian police, during a raid on terrorist suspects late last year, seized surveillance footage of the high-ranking nuclear official, which showed him entering and leaving his home.
The Times quotes an official at Belgium’s Federal Agency for Nuclear Control who said: “When you start filming someone in the way they did, the logical conclusion is that they wanted to abduct that person and to obtain radioactive material.”
CBS News reports that the eleven workers whose security passes were revoked all worked at the Tihange nuclear power station. The passes were withdrawn after all the workers at the site were vetted by a committee including intelligence and security agencies.
