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Nuclear terrorism is likely within the next few years

“  it is more likely than not that a weapon of mass destruction will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere in the world by the end of 2013,” concluded The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism

Security and Defense: Preparing for nuclear terrorism, Jerusalem Post, By YAAKOV LAPPIN  12/08/2011 Israel will hold a civil defense drill that for the first time will simulate the response to an attack by a dirty bomb. In January, a “Dark Cloud” will descend on northern Israel. The name for a civil defense exercise, Dark Cloud will be Israel’s first simulated response to a radioactive dispersal device attack, the official term for what is more commonly known as a “dirty bomb.”….

 Barak has said, the possibility that cargo ship carrying a dirty bomb inside ashipping container will sail into Haifa Port and explode is far more concerning.

Already in the early 2000s, Western intelligence agencies began to warn of nuclear terrorism. In 2003, the US National Strategy for Combating Terrorism warned that the risk of nuclear terrorism had increased significantly and that it posed one of the greatest threats to the national security of the US and its allies.

But 2008 was the year that brought a much bigger blow. In December, the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, established by the US Congress about a year earlier, issued its first earth-shattering report warning that a nuclear or biological terrorist attack was likely to occur within the next five years.

“Unless the world community acts decisively and with great urgency, it is more likely than not that a weapon of mass destruction will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere in the world by the end of 2013,” the commission concluded.

Al-Qaida, possibly the only terrorist organization capable of developing a dirty bomb on its own, has spoken openly of a “holy duty” to use nuclear weapons against the US. Rudimentary sketches of improvised nuclear devices were found in a number of al- Qaida hideouts in Afghanistan. If Iran went nuclear, al Qaida would not be alone and Hezbollah would also be a constant suspect of possessing such capabilities…..
http://www.jpost.com/Features/FrontLines/Article.aspx?id=248764

December 9, 2011 - Posted by | 2 WORLD, safety

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