A major counter-terrorism investigation has been launched after several kilograms of uranium was seized at Heathrow airport. The undeclared nuclear material that could potentially be used in a ‘dirty bomb’ arrived on a flight from Oman, in the Middle East, on December 29. The shipment was addressed to an Iranian-linked firm in the UK.
Daily Mail 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. The package originated in Pakistan before arriving at Heathrow’s Terminal Four aboard an Oman Air passenger jet from Muscat, sources told The Sun.
Separately, a source told The Sun there is an overwhelming ‘concern over what the Iranians living here wanted with non-disclosed nuclear material’.
An unnamed source told the publication: ‘The race is on to trace everyone involved with this rogue non-manifested package. ‘Security bosses are treating this with the seriousness it deserves. Protocol was not followed and this is now an anti-terror operation.’ Specialist scanners picked up on the undeclared parcel as it was transported to a freight shed.
Border Force agents isolated the shipment in a radioactive room and, upon determining it was uranium, called in counter-terror police. Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, former commander of the UK’s nuclear defence regiment, said: ‘Uranium can give off very high levels of poisonous radiation. It could be used in a dirty bomb.
As long ago as 2003 the then head of MI5 warned that it was ‘only a matter of time’ before a dirty bomb or chemical weapons attack was launched on a major Western city. Eliza Manningham-Buller said intelligence reports suggested ‘renegade scientists’ had given terrorist groups the information they needed to create such weapons.
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. He was jailed for 30 years.
Last year, Former Washington official Robert Joseph told MailOnline Iran is a nuclear weapons state with enough uranium to build ‘one, if not two’ bombs. He said: ‘The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has documented that Iran has 60% of enriched uranium, enough for at least one if not two bombs.
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Az gal says
Tick tock.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Think about it people. This is what the politics do to us and they wont stop the import so why investigate when you bring the problem into your country and as all know the religion of freedom would never ever do a bad thing then they are flawless. This shit is what the politics tell us and should we say otherwise then the ministry of the interior (verfassungsschutz) will get you because you went against your country, no shit. All investigations or whatever are nothing more than a farce then the outcome is there before the investigation. Soon cometh the hour of power and then we can show them what we think.
Bioya1 says
Step #1 – kick *ALL* Iranians out of the UK. Step #2 – kick the rest of the Muslims out to their native country. If they were born there, make the destination their parents’ native country.
xenonman says
yes, but who has the “cojones” to start doing this?
Jerven says
I’ll just point out the obvious.
Any, and every, possible target in the western world where this could cause even minimal disruption (meaning ‘the cities’) is … a metropolitan area filled with leftists and … muslims. (Everywhere else we’d only ‘know’ it was a thing, or probably that it even happened [like Fallon Gongs nuclear explosion in Australia], if the media decide to make us. Just like the coof. And if they decided to concentrate on a soft-target like Parliament, that would be the Parliament infested by wokist leftists, globalists, foreigners and muslims, I’d, and most of the rest of us would, say “Have at it!” or possibly “Can we help?”).
The only effect of a “dirty bomb”, beyond the initial explosion, is ‘panic’. After decades of attention from the ‘freedom fighter’ (meaning corrupt, murderous, marxist gangster) feinians (so beloved of leftist America) we Brits would probably yawn and … begin the (long overdue) boogaloo.
Such are ‘publicity weapons’ and if the ‘victims’ of such ‘just happen’ to be the very people who are destroying civilisation, why should I care?
(Qualifier: Except that it is guaranteed that, just like the feinians who ‘we’ could have ended in a week if allowed to [if “shoot to kill” had ever been a real thing, there would ‘be’ no feinians left to whine about not being able to randomly murder anyone they wanted], ‘if’, as it always is, TPTB use it as yet another excuse to restrict and remove more rights from … everyone ‘but’ the perpetrators.
The question isn’t “What did the Iranians intend” or even “How did they do it” but “Why did TPTB decide to tell us about this now”. I wonder what new legislation and inconveniences (in travel and transport) ‘everyone’, ‘but’ the obvious of course, will be subjected to ‘to protect us’ has already been lined up?).
The recent past ‘should’ have given you the understanding that it is not whether you are paranoid or not, but whether you are paranoid enough.
BareNakedIslam says
The question isn’t “What did the Iranians intend” or even “How did they do it” but “Why did TPTB decide to tell us about this now”.
Very good question. This can’t be the first time something like this has happened.
Jack Rider says
i believe the UK government is taking this seriously. I also believe that the main stream media will not touch this story for fear of provoking a rational assessment of its immigration policies (even though this incident is not directly connected to those policies. the MSM operates on the notion that it must avoid reportage on anything that can provike a claim of racism. what is more racist that an effort to terrorize the citizenry of a civilized nation.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Why does the msm do this??. To know the answer read the migrationpackts 1 and 2 and you will be enlightened as to why they do what they do. A little help. There is stated that the msm is not allowed to write any negative articles on the invasion or the invader and becaue as here in germany the msm is payed with our taxeuros so whos bread i eat, his song i sing.
Easterndmondbk says
Things got real on us.
MITS says
This story has disappeared from the front page or any page in the UK Daily Mail.
BareNakedIslam says
What about The Sun?