Islam and Nuclear Access:
•Switzerland: Adlène Hicheur, 32, recently arrested in France as suspected Al-Qaeda affiliates and charged “criminal activities related to a terrorist group,” is a non-employee physicist of Algerian origins at the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland. In a release, CERN indicated that he work since 2003 as an analyst on the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator. He previously worked for a year at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, a top-secret British nuclear research center. One source said he had been “pinpointing nuclear targets.” A report indicates that Hicheur planned to target a Total Oil refinery to cause an explosion capable of destroying a city “the size of London.” Hicheur also planned assassinations of such politicians as President Nicolas Sarkozy and Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux of France as well as attacks on a French army brigade and French businesses.
May 6, 2010 update: This one matches the previous one in its implications.
•United States: Sharif Mobley worked in at five nuclear power plants along the East Coast and recently, according to former CIA official Charles Faddis, joined Al-Qaeda and moved to Yemen where the security forces arrested him in March. U.S. law enforcement emphasizes that Mobley’s low security clearance means he cannot pass vital details about American nuclear-plant security but Faddis demurs: “it doesn’t take top-level clearance to know how to set off a nuclear meltdown. All it takes is information on perimeter security — information Mr. Mobley possesses about every plant where he worked.” Faddis runs through the technicalities of a meltdown and argues that “Even low-level employees at a nuclear plant would have the information necessary to pull off such an attack, like the number of guards, their weapons and procedures at entry gates — even someone as low-level as Sharif Mobley.” Faddis recalls Al-Qaeda’s intense focus on this very subject: “We don’t yet know what kind of plant-security information, if any, Mr. Mobley passed on to Al Qaeda. But we do know that the organization has been interested in attacking American nuclear plants for years; it even considered including a plant on its Sept. 11 target list.” Turning to policy, he concluds that
we have no choice but to assume that Mr. Mobley did in fact pass on details about plant security, and we need to take immediate steps to head off any possible terrorist attack. Defensive schemes at the plants where Mr. Mobley worked need to be significantly changed so that his information is no longer of value to any potential attacker. Guard procedures, for example, must be altered. Where such changes cannot adequately compensate for the potential risk Mr. Mobley presents, then defenses need to be strengthened. Security perimeters need to be widened. And more barriers must be put in place against car bombs. Once we have dealt with the plants where Mr. Mobley worked, we need to institute similar procedures at the remainder of the nuclear plants in the United States, because the unfortunate truth is that the defensive schemes at these sites are essentially all alike.
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/01/islamists-penetrate-western-security
How Closet Muslims are Possible
[Thank you to a low profile friend who helped me find this.]taqiyya (maybe different spellings)
Pretending to be a Christian can be an act of taqiyya.
Falsehoods told to prevent the denigration of Islam, to protect oneself, or to promote the cause of Islam are sanctioned in the Qur’an and Sunna, including lying under oath in testimony before a court, deceiving by making distorted statements to the media such as the claim that Islam is a “religion of peace”. A Muslim is even permitted to deny or denounce his faith if, in so doing, he protects or furthers the interests of Islam, so long as he remains faithful to Islam in his heart.” http://www.islam-watch.org
http://www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia/chapter6b/1.html
The word “al-Taqiyya” literally means: “Concealing or disguising one’s beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and/or strategies at a time of eminent danger, whether now or later in time, to save oneself from
physical and/or mental injury.” A one-word translation would be “Dissimulation.” [snip]
A group of people from Mecca accepted Islam and professed their belief; as a result, the companions in Medina wrote to them requesting that they emigrate to Medina; for if they don’t do so, they shall not be considered as those who are among the believers. In compliance, the group left Mecca, but were soon ambushed by the nonbelievers (Quraish) before reaching their destination; they were coerced into disbelief, and they professed it. As a result, the verse “...except under compulsion, his heart remaining firm in faith [16:106]...” was revealed.”
The Prophet (PBUH&HF) saw `Ammar Ibn Yasir (RA) crying, so he (PBUH&HF) wiped off his (RA) tears, and said: “The nonbelievers arrested you and immersed you in water until you said such and succh (i.e., bad-mouthing the Prophet (PBUH&HF) and praising the pagan gods to escape persecution); if they come back, then say it again.”
After the conquest of the city of Khaybar by the Muslims, the Prophet(PBUH&HF) was approached by Hajaj Ibn `Aalat and told: “O Prophet of Allah: I have in Mecca some excess wealth and some relatives, and I would like to have them back; am I excused if I bad-mouth you (to escape persecution)?” The Prophet (PBUH&HF) excused him and said:
“Say whatever you have to say.”