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| Dirty bomb fears as 'several kg of URANIUM' found in cargo at Heathrow: Package 'shipped from Pakistan to UK-based Iranians' at centre of Met Police anti-terror probe after being discovered when airport alarms triggered |
| 2023-01-11 |
[Daily Mail] - Shipment of uranium has been seized at Heathrow airport, sparking terror fears
- The undeclared material was discovered on December 29 on a passenger flight
- It was destined for an Iranian business with a premises in the UK, sources say
- The package originated from Pakistan and arrived on a flight via Oman
Sources said the uranium was ‘not weapons-grade’ - and so could not be used to manufacture a thermo-nuclear weapon.
But the security services are understood to be investigating whether the undeclared package could have been destined for an improvised nuclear device, known as a ‘dirty bomb’.
Such a device - which has long been a nightmare scenario for counter-terror experts - combines conventional explosives with nuclear material to disperse a lethal radioactive plume.
In 2004 British security services arrested Dhiren Barot, a Muslim convert who planned to assemble and use dirty bombs in the UK and the US to kill members of the public.
| Mr. Barot aka Issa al-Hindi headed a Lashkar e-Taiba jihadi cell in the UK that planned a series of attacks against major targets in Britain and the Greater NYC area. His manual for jihad was published in a large enough run that copies could still be found in bookshops six years later. |
He was jailed for 30 years. |
| Posted by:Waldemar the Limber5043 |