Quote (balrog66 @ Mar 26 2016 07:41am)

Implying dirty bombs are dangerous?

Oh and fissile material and waste is already pretty much the most watched and guarded commodity on the planet.

For most of the attacks so far bombs were made using readily available materials (TATP made from Acetone and H2O2, nails, glass, metal) and not military grade materials. Terrorists do not have the chemical expertise nor the facilities to safely guard and manipulate radioactive material until use.

I definitely agree that terrorist attacks are not something we should be afraid of in Europe, but I am a little bit nonetheless. I mean, just yesterday whilst traveling to my parents I had to hop trains in Arnhem and there were quite a few military police armed with MP5's and sniffer dogs. I feel safe knowing that they are there, but less safe because they have to be there in the first place.

Quote (Thor123422 @ Mar 25 2016 11:00pm)

Can you explain the bolded further? I don't see how an ISIS sponsored attack takes the spotlight OFF of ISIS.

Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ 24 Mar 2016 14:24)

...there is new evidence that the Brussels bombers had been planning to attack a nuclear power plant .

Quote (balrog66 @ 26 Mar 2016 13:41)

Implying dirty bombs are dangerous?

Oh and fissile material and waste is already pretty much the most watched and guarded commodity on the planet.

For most of the attacks so far bombs were made using readily available materials (TATP made from Acetone and H2O2, nails, glass, metal) and not military grade materials. Terrorists do not have the chemical expertise nor the facilities to safely guard and manipulate radioactive material until use.

I definitely agree that terrorist attacks are not something we should be afraid of in Europe, but I am a little bit nonetheless. I mean, just yesterday whilst traveling to my parents I had to hop trains in Arnhem and there were quite a few military police armed with MP5's and sniffer dogs. I feel safe knowing that they are there, but less safe because they have to be there in the first place.

Quote (hATemOnkEy @ Mar 26 2016 09:31pm)

Seen nothing about this.

Source?

Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ 27 Mar 2016 03:37)

...every single news service out there ;)


Pop this into google - brussels bombers nuclear reactor

Quote (hATemOnkEy @ Mar 26 2016 09:47pm)

A (admittedly short) search on google tells me this was reported by La Derniere Heure (and copied by other newspapers) after it was revealed that after a raid of the El Bakraoui brothers had footage of the coming and goings of the director of the nuclear research program. It is suspected that they planted the camera that recorded his goings.

From this it is inferred that they may have planned an attack on a nuclear plant.

Stating this as fact is (at the moment) premature.

Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ 27 Mar 2016 03:49)

...any actual intelligence gathered is not going to be made public , at least for now .

Quote (hATemOnkEy @ Mar 26 2016 09:52pm)

Which means you also don't know for sure.

I'm not saying that they didn't plan this, but let's not jump to conclusions.

Fear of all possible threats is not what we need right now.

Quote (bogie160 @ 26 Mar 2016 18:20)

... The rise of far-right nationalist parties is beneficial in a lot of ways to ISIS's long-term goals.

Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ 27 Mar 2016 03:56)

What you need is awareness and if the totality of the evidence suggests they had their sights set on attacking a reactor you guys had best step up your security at nuclear plants .