Brussels bombers were planning NUCLEAR attack, fresh police video evidence confirms
THE Brussels-based gang of Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists who co-ordinated Tuesday’s massacre WERE planning an attack on one of the country’s nuclear power plants, police now believe.
By TOM BATCHELOR
09:32, Fri, Mar 25, 2016 | UPDATED: 09:44, Fri, Mar 25, 2016
Investigators have discovered more than 12 hours of footage filmed by jihadis of the home Belgium’s nuclear power chief.
Police have deduced that the terror group were planning to kidnap the senior nuclear official in a bid to force him to give the extremists access to the highly sensitive atomic site.
Belgium bombers – brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui – had hidden their camera in the bushes near the home, it was reported.
Belgian authorities evacuated two nuclear power plants after suicide bombings at Brussels Airport and on a Metro train in the centre of the city, which left at least 31 people dead.
The Tihange power plant, an hour’s drive from the Belgian capital in the province of Liege, and the Doel power plant in Antwerp were cleared amid heightened fears of another attack.
Security has been stepped up at both Doel, which houses four reactors, and Tihange, which houses three.
Armed police and the Belgian military had been on site since the weekend following growing calls from the energy industry to beef up security at the potentially vulnerable plants.
All non-essential staff had been evacuated at the request of Belgian authorities, although the plants continued to operate with key staff remaining on site.
According to Belgian newspaper Derniere Heure (DH), the jihadi gang had a camera trained on the home of the Research and Development Director of the Belgian Nuclear Programme.
The footage was obtained by police after a raid on an apartment in Brussels in December, a month after the Paris massacre.
It was only later that police made the terrifying links between the CCTV surveillance and the terror threat engulfing Europe.
It prompted Belgian authorities in February to deploy 140 soldiers to the nuclear plants, leading some to speculate that the terror cell was then forced to switch its focus to softer targets such as the Brussels Metro.
DH claims to have seen information which directly links the terrorist brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui to the footage.
THE Brussels-based gang of Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists who co-ordinated Tuesday’s massacre WERE planning an attack on one of the country’s nuclear power plants, police now believe.
By TOM BATCHELOR
09:32, Fri, Mar 25, 2016 | UPDATED: 09:44, Fri, Mar 25, 2016
Investigators have discovered more than 12 hours of footage filmed by jihadis of the home Belgium’s nuclear power chief.
Police have deduced that the terror group were planning to kidnap the senior nuclear official in a bid to force him to give the extremists access to the highly sensitive atomic site.
Belgium bombers – brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui – had hidden their camera in the bushes near the home, it was reported.
Belgian authorities evacuated two nuclear power plants after suicide bombings at Brussels Airport and on a Metro train in the centre of the city, which left at least 31 people dead.
The Tihange power plant, an hour’s drive from the Belgian capital in the province of Liege, and the Doel power plant in Antwerp were cleared amid heightened fears of another attack.
Security has been stepped up at both Doel, which houses four reactors, and Tihange, which houses three.
Armed police and the Belgian military had been on site since the weekend following growing calls from the energy industry to beef up security at the potentially vulnerable plants.
All non-essential staff had been evacuated at the request of Belgian authorities, although the plants continued to operate with key staff remaining on site.
According to Belgian newspaper Derniere Heure (DH), the jihadi gang had a camera trained on the home of the Research and Development Director of the Belgian Nuclear Programme.
The footage was obtained by police after a raid on an apartment in Brussels in December, a month after the Paris massacre.
It was only later that police made the terrifying links between the CCTV surveillance and the terror threat engulfing Europe.
It prompted Belgian authorities in February to deploy 140 soldiers to the nuclear plants, leading some to speculate that the terror cell was then forced to switch its focus to softer targets such as the Brussels Metro.
DH claims to have seen information which directly links the terrorist brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui to the footage.
